Every category where a model named MetricStream for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Internal controls and SOX	Tax and compliance	0%	24 of 71	30%	20	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for MetricStream yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated MetricStream across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	2	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	2	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1	2
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct11 labels5

Paraphrase12 labels2

Comparative27 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labels3

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative71 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 12 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Best for broad enterprise GRC with internal controls as one part of a larger risk/compliance program.” GPT-5.4 mini · Internal controls · comparative prompt · alternative

“Choose ServiceNow GRC or MetricStream if you are a large, highly mature enterprise” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Internal controls · comparative prompt · alternative

“Broad enterprise GRC + risk + compliance integration? → MetricStream or RSA Archer” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Internal controls · comparative prompt · alternative

“MetricStream - Enterprise GRC for risk, compliance, policy, and IT/cyber controls.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Internal controls · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“ServiceNow GRC / OneTrust / MetricStream – $150k+ per year. Not even in the same universe.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Internal controls · budget prompt · hard negative

“heavy enterprise GRC platforms (like MetricStream or ServiceNow) are usually too complex and expensive” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Internal controls · direct prompt · soft negative

“the enterprise suites (Archer, MetricStream, ServiceNow, Workiva) are over-scoped and over-priced” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Internal controls · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“steer clear of heavy, traditional enterprise GRC ... like Workiva, AuditBoard, or MetricStream” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Internal controls · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as MetricStream, over the 71 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MetricStream was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Workiva51 of 716Not in the top three

AuditBoard44 of 7116Not in the top three

ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management41 of 710Not in the top three

Archer32 of 710Not in the top three

Diligent One Platform31 of 711Not in the top three

LogicGate Risk Cloud26 of 711Not in the top three

Vanta25 of 715Not in the top three

Drata19 of 714Not in the top three

SAP GRC19 of 710Not in the top three

Hyperproof13 of 712Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named MetricStream. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 58 of the 71 answers that named MetricStream and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

optro.ai44

worldmetrics.org37

gartner.com31

gitnux.org31

sprinto.com23

netwrix.com22

wifitalents.com22

riskwatch.com21

metricstream.comYour site20

checkthat.ai18

249 of the 269 domain citations in answers naming MetricStream came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

optro.ai/blog/best-internal-control-management-software27

gartner.com/reviews/market/internal-controls-software26

netwrix.com/en/resources/blog/sox-compliance-software22

sprinto.com/blog/internal-control-software20

worldmetrics.org/best/internal-control-management-software19

optro.ai/blog/best-sox-management-software18

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-tools-for-sarbanes-oxley-act-compliance17

highradius.com/resources/Blog/best-sox-compliance-tools16

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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