Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 26 → 42 of 43
Azure · 1 category · RankedAzure CDN
27Judge labels
0First choices
13Negative labels
12 / 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.
Best standing
0% in CDN for mid-market buyers
Rank 11 of 49 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 25% of its 12 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Azure CDN →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business43 of 44
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market11 of 49
0%12 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise39 of 45
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
In cdn · 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 Azure CDN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Content delivery networks | Network and edge | 0% | 11 of 49 | 25% | 12 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Azure CDN held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CDN · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 26 → 10 of 44
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 8 → 39 of 43
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDN | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 26 → 11 of 49 |
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 Azure CDN 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 Azure CDN 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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 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
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative6 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative13 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative27 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.
“Google Cloud CDN and Microsoft Azure CDN are strongest when CDN decisions are closely tied to existing cloud architecture” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CDN · comparative prompt · alternative
“Azure CDN \u2013 If you're a Microsoft shop with Azure infrastructure” Kimi K2 · CDN · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Best for .NET apps and B2B portals with pricing of ~$0.085/GB+” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CDN · direct prompt · alternative
“If you're on Azure, Azure CDN is the best fit.” Mistral Small · CDN · paraphrase 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.
“Azure CDN depends heavily on the Microsoft ecosystem, and recent stability issues have lowered user trust” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CDN · negative prompt · hard negative
“a cloud‑wide incident can affect your CDN, and you may have limited control over the underlying network” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CDN · negative prompt · soft negative
“avoid metered CDNs” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CDN · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Azure CDN, over the 27 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure CDN was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Azure CDN, over the 27 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure CDN 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 Azure CDN. 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 25 of the 27 answers that named Azure CDN and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
blog.blazingcdn.com23
broadbandnow.com10
fastly.com9
yewsafe.com8
33rdsquare.com7
devopsschool.com7
edgenext.com7
g2.com7
redswitches.com7
ioriver.io6
Ninety-one of the ninety-one domain citations in answers naming Azure CDN came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Azure CDN stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Azure CDN stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 590 a month (“azure cdn”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 47 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Azure's site (azure.cn), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 11 of 49 in CDN
Segment leader
68%
Cloudflare
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 27 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 25 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.
Names read as Azure CDN
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Azure CDN; a claim can dispute any of them.
Microsoft Azure CDN 5
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The company
Azure is the company behind Azure CDN.ShowHide
The company
Azure is the company behind Azure CDN.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Azure
- Azure ACR, Azure AD Conditional Access, Azure AD Graph API, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Gateway, Azure AI Search, Azure API Management and 79 more
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Azure CDN's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Azure CDN, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Azure CDN by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Azure CDN 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 Azure CDN, 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.