Small businessnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 7 of 68, unchanged
Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine
4Judge labels
2First choices
0Negative labels
3 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
2 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine was named 2 times in Managed Kubernetes, where Google Kubernetes Engine led with 43%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business7 of 76
2%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market18 of 52
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise8 of 52
2%1 label
under the label threshold
In managed kubernetes · 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 Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed Kubernetes platforms | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 18 of 52 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Google Kubernetes Engine at 43% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Managed Kubernetes · by segment
Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 20 of 46, unchanged
EnterprisenewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 7 of 47, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed Kubernetes | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 18 of 52, unchanged |
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 11 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 Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labels2
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.
“ranked #1 of 28 in 2026 with 9.4/10 and is described as "A cost-conscious managed Kubernetes option with flexible infrastructure billing."” Muse Glimmer 30B · Managed Kubernetes · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Best for: Performance-focused workloads; cost-sensitive deployments” Kimi K2 · Managed Kubernetes · 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine. 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 4 of the 4 answers that named Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
itechguides.com4
northflank.com3
blog.railway.com2
techtarget.com2
aws.amazon.com1
cloud.ibm.com1
controlplane.com1
digitalocean.com1
digiusher.com1
gitnux.org1
Seventeen of the seventeen domain citations in answers naming Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine; a claim can dispute any of them.
Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) 1
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The company
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The company
Akamai is the company behind Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine.
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Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Updates a Kubernetes cluster.
- For
- users creating an LKE cluster
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/get-lke-cluster, techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/put-lke-cluster, techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/get-lke-clusters, techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/post-lke-cluster, techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/get-lke-node-pool. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine 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 Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine, 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;
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