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Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability

29Judge labels
0First choices
4Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in ESG and carbon reporting for mid-market buyers
Rank 24 of 110 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 13 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In esg and carbon reporting · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
ESG and carbon reportingEquity and corporate0%24 of 1108%13accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 10 points.

Best category · ESG and carbon reporting · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 71 → 45 of 106
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 67 → 23 of 96
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 51 → 12 of 75

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
ESG and carbon reporting0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 67 → 24 of 110

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.501102
GPT-6 Luna00011
Muse Glimmer 30B01102

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
Direct6 labelsNone
Paraphrase8 labelsNone
Comparative9 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Perfect for organizations deeply integrated into Microsoft's Azure cloud, Power BI, and Dynamics 365 ERP environments.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ESG and carbon reporting · comparative prompt · alternative
“Need native Microsoft 365/ Dynamics ERP integration → Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability.” Muse Glimmer 30B · ESG and carbon reporting · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“more of a data platform than an out-of-the-box reporting tool” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ESG and carbon reporting · comparative prompt · alternative
“Cloud-based sustainability reporting with AI capabilities” MiniMax M2.5 · ESG and carbon reporting · 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.

“Microsoft Sustainability Manager's current documentation labels its data-export feature preview and says its behavior and file layout may change.” GPT-6 Luna · ESG and carbon reporting · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Watershed22 of 295Not among the top eight
IBM Envizi21 of 290Not among the top eight
Persefoni19 of 291Not among the top eight
Sweep17 of 291Not among the top eight
Workiva16 of 2912Not among the top eight
Novisto15 of 293Not among the top eight
Normative10 of 290Not among the top eight
Greenly9 of 293Not among the top eight
Diligent ESG9 of 290Not among the top eight
Sphera8 of 290Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 29 of the 29 answers that named Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

onestopesg.com21
pulsora.com12
guideflow.com11
techtarget.com10
gartner.com9
coolset.com8
manglai.io8
tracera.com8
worldmetrics.org7
csr-tools.com6

100 of the 100 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

microsoft.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability takes 0% of first choices and Greenly takes 36%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “esg reporting software”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “esg reporting platforms”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
110 a month (“microsoft cloud for sustainability”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
1 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 145,358,109 a month
Searches its site ranks for
2,421,769 · 793,520 in the top three
Sites linking to it
2,904,433
Paid Google search
56 searches its ads show for, about 705 clicks and $12,455 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
103+ ads · 93 text, 8 video, 2 image · 103 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2022, as Microsoft Corporation, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 26 in the year, 77 before. 17 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 24 of 110 in ESG and carbon reporting
Segment leader
36%
Greenly
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
29 answers
Its own site cited
in 29 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on microsoft.com
10,448
subdomains included
Content
146
counted in the table below
Documentation
10
Product · Integration
1,142 · 20
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Glossary or explainer44undated
Comparison30undated
News or press27102026-09-28
Blog2542026-09-24
Case study12undated
Conference or event5undated
Template or tool2undated
Report or ebook102025-12-02
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page microsoft.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability; a claim can dispute any of them.
Microsoft Sustainability Manager 4Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability (Microsoft Sustainability Manager) 1

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The company

Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Customers named
ContentsquareServiceNowPangaea DataNeo4jSoftwareOnePresidio
Not stated on the pages read
Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: microsoft.com, microsoft.com/en-ca/dynamics-365/pricing-overview, trust.microsoft.com, microsoft.com/en-ca/dynamics-365/solutions/ai, microsoft.com/cs-cz/isv/marketplace. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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