Every category where a model named Civo 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
Managed Kubernetes platforms	Cloud and infrastructure	10%	3 of 48	0%	22	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Civo 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 Civo across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	1	3
Mistral Small	2	1	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	2	4

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

Direct10 labels2

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative11 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained18 labels9

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative12 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative54 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 16 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.

“Start with DigitalOcean (DOKS) or Civo - both offer free control planes and simple, predictable pricing” Kimi K2 · Managed Kubernetes · budget prompt · first choice

“starting with well-established, developer-friendly platforms like Civo, DigitalOcean, GKE, or AKS is safer” Mistral Small · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · first choice

“The best managed Kubernetes platform for a company with a limited budget is Civo” Llama 4 Maverick · Managed Kubernetes · budget prompt · first choice

“I would recommend starting with Civo or DigitalOcean” MiniMax M2.5 · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Civo, over the 54 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Civo was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

DigitalOcean Kubernetes51 of 5417Compare →

Google Kubernetes Engine42 of 5412Compare →

Azure Kubernetes Service39 of 543Not in the top three

Amazon EKS37 of 541Not in the top three

Linode Kubernetes Engine31 of 544Not in the top three

Scaleway Kapsule23 of 540Not in the top three

Vultr Kubernetes Engine16 of 540Not in the top three

UpCloud Managed Kubernetes11 of 540Not in the top three

Rancher10 of 540Not in the top three

Red Hat OpenShift10 of 540Not 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 Civo. 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 47 of the 54 answers that named Civo and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

medium.com43

spot.rackspace.com34

blog.railway.com27

dev.to25

northflank.com22

digitalocean.com20

portainer.io15

lucaberton.com13

reddit.com13

oneuptime.com9

221 of the 221 domain citations in answers naming Civo came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

spot.rackspace.com/blog/kubernetes-managed-services34

medium.com/@BuildShift/15-managed-kubernetes-platforms-ranked-for-developers-2025-9c82acad31

medium.com/@devlinktips/15-managed-kubernetes-platforms-ranked-for-developers-2025-9c82aca29

blog.railway.com/p/best-managed-kubernetes-hosting-202627

dev.to/dev_tips/comparing-the-top-10-managed-kubernetes-providers-2025-edition-12h824

medium.com/@elliotgraebert/comparing-the-top-eight-managed-kubernetes-providers-2ae396623922

northflank.com/blog/top-managed-kubernetes-hosting-platforms15

medium.com/@emilmatyjaszewski/top-4-cheapest-managed-kubernetes-providers-in-2024-fa27769014

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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