Small business▼−7Since September 2026: 11% → 4%, −7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 11% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 4 pointsRank 3 → 4 of 68
1 category · RankedCivo Kubernetes
40Judge labels
8First choices
4Negative 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
9% in Managed Kubernetes for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 52 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 12% of its 16 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Civo Kubernetes →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business4 of 76
4%22 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market5 of 52
9%16 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise48 of 52
0%2 labels
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 Civo Kubernetes 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 | 9% | 5 of 52 | 12% | 16 | accepted challenger | ▲+1Since September 2026: 10% → 11%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Civo Kubernetes held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Managed Kubernetes · by segment
Mid-market▲+1Since September 2026: 10% → 11%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
11%from 10% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 3 → 5 of 46
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 49 → 43 of 47
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed Kubernetes | 10% | 11% | ▲+1Since September 2026: 10% → 11%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 → 5 of 52 |
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 Civo Kubernetes 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 Civo Kubernetes 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative6 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained15 labels8
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative40 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 10 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 best managed Kubernetes platform for a company with a limited budget is Civo” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed Kubernetes · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with DigitalOcean Kubernetes or Civo” Kimi K2 · Managed Kubernetes · budget prompt · first choice
“Civo is widely considered the best option for bootstrapped teams.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · budget prompt · first choice
“For maximum cost savings, Civo is the cheapest option” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Managed Kubernetes · budget prompt · first choice
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.
“be cautious about scaling massive, mission-critical, enterprise-grade production workloads on them” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · soft negative
“these warrant caution for certain use cases” Kimi K2 · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Civo Kubernetes, over the 40 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Civo Kubernetes was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Civo Kubernetes, over the 40 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Civo Kubernetes 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 Civo Kubernetes. 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 40 of the 40 answers that named Civo Kubernetes and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
spot.rackspace.com27
medium.com26
digitalocean.com21
blog.railway.com19
northflank.com19
dev.to15
mirantis.com14
it-ai-index.com13
portainer.io12
qovery.com11
177 of the 177 domain citations in answers naming Civo Kubernetes came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
civo.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Civo Kubernetes takes 9% of first choices and Google Kubernetes Engine takes 43%.ShowHide
Search and answers
civo.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Civo Kubernetes takes 9% of first choices and Google Kubernetes Engine takes 43%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “managed kubernetes platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “managed kubernetes platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 20 a month (“civo kubernetes”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 4,772 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,344 · 46 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,596
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
9%
rank 5 of 52 in managed kubernetes
Segment leader
43%
Google Kubernetes Engine
- First choices
- 8 across its categories
- Named in
- 40 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 40 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on civo.com
1,097
subdomains included
Content
456
counted in the table below
Documentation
67
Product · Integration
3 · 110
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 182 | 0 | 2026-05-05 | IaC, API gateways | |
| Blog | 150 | 3 | 2026-08-23 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 47 | 0 | 2026-03-18 | APM, Feature flags | |
| News or press | 32 | 0 | 2026-04-14 | ||
| Comparison | 23 | 2 | 2026-08-19 | ||
| Case study | 16 | 0 | 2026-05-27 | ||
| Report or ebook | 4 | 0 | 2025-10-20 | ||
| Conference or event | 2 | 0 | 2024-07-16 |
Most recent
- 2026-08-23Why public sector teams move to sovereign cloud blog
- 2026-08-19Public cloud vs private cloud comparison
- 2026-08-08A100 vs l40s vs h100 vs h200gh superchips comparison
- 2026-07-07The importance of data sovereignty in india blog
- 2026-07-03The true cost of cloud in india blog
- 2026-06-30How companies in india are improving their cloud costs and data sovereignty blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page civo.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 Civo Kubernetes
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Civo Kubernetes; a claim can dispute any of them.
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The company
Civo Kubernetes is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Civo Kubernetes is its own company.
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Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- We’ve pioneered a Kubernetes-powered cloud with the fastest deployments in the industry – cluster launch times in under 90 seconds.
- For
- users
- Price stated
- Civo Kubernetes provides all of the core components of the control plane for free, ensuring your cluster's API and management is always available. We charge only for the resources used by Kubernetes worker nodes and any additional paid addons like Persistent Volumes or Managed Databases. civo.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 5.43 civo.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- $250 in free credit to explore our platform for a full month. civo.com
- Hosting
- UKIndiaMoroccoIndonesia
- Customers named
- LESSOLimitless TechnologiesTensorGoAirowire NetworksTechdomeDefense.comHeightssKubeNine
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications
What Civo Kubernetes's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: civo.com, civo.com/pricing, civo.com/marketplace/category/security, civo.com/navigate/berlin/2024/talks/platform-engineering-redefined, civo.com/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Civo Kubernetes by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Civo Kubernetes 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 Civo Kubernetes, 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.