Every category where a model named Alibaba Cloud 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
Cloud hosting	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	46 of 78	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 29%
API gateways	Developer platform	0%	29 of 51	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 61%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Alibaba Cloud 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 Alibaba Cloud 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	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative10 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 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.

“The strongest provider in Asia” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cloud hosting · 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.

“noted for being less relevant in Western markets” Mistral Small · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative

“poor Trustpilot rating, and less relevant in Western markets” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Alibaba Cloud, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Alibaba Cloud was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon Web Services13 of 2010Not in the top three

Google Cloud13 of 202Not in the top three

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure12 of 200Not in the top three

IBM11 of 200Not in the top three

Microsoft Azure10 of 201Not in the top three

Tencent Cloud7 of 200Not in the top three

DigitalOcean5 of 201Not in the top three

Hetzner4 of 202Not in the top three

Akamai Connected Cloud4 of 200Not in the top three

OVHcloud4 of 200Not 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 Alibaba Cloud. 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 18 of the 20 answers that named Alibaba Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

worldmetrics.org7

crn.com6

dev.to6

wifitalents.com6

digitalocean.com5

geekflare.com5

meridianitinc.com5

kansoftware.com4

avenga.com3

cloudzero.com3

Fifty of the fifty domain citations in answers naming Alibaba Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

crn.com/news/cloud/2024/top-8-cloud-platform-services-ranked-azure-aws-google-lead-gartner5

geekflare.com/hosting/best-cloud-hosting-platforms5

meridianitinc.com/blog/best-cloud-server-hosting-providers5

wifitalents.com/service/enterprise-cloud-hosting5

worldmetrics.org/service/enterprise-cloud-hosting5

avenga.com/magazine/top-cloud-service-providers3

costimizer.ai/blogs/cloud-providers3

crn.com/news/cloud/2024/aws-microsoft-google-lead-gartner-s-cloud-services-magic-quadrant3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Alibaba Cloud

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Alibaba Cloud; a claim can dispute any of them.

Alibaba 1Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) 1

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