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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Contabo

9Judge labels

0First choices

8Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Contabo was named 7 times in Cloud hosting and 1 other category, where Amazon Web Services led with 29%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business55 of 70

under the label threshold

Mid-market73 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprise40 of 53

under the label threshold

In cloud hosting · 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 Contabo 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%	73 of 78	83%	6	under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 29%
Object storage	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	38 of 46	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Backblaze B2 at 46%

Movement

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

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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 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.

“Contabo (for VPS) are frequently praised for better performance, support, and value” Mistral Small · Cloud hosting · negative 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.

“Multiple complaints about poor customer support, frequent downtime, slow server performance” MiniMax M2.5 · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative

“Budget VPS with reports of blacklisted IP ranges ... Fine for non-email use but risky.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative

“one of the most consistently criticized budget providers... Heavy overselling” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative

“they are highly discouraged for production workloads” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Contabo, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Contabo was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon Web Services6 of 91Not in the top three

OVHcloud6 of 90Not in the top three

Hetzner5 of 92Not in the top three

Bluehost5 of 90Not in the top three

DigitalOcean4 of 91Not in the top three

Google Cloud4 of 91Not in the top three

Azure4 of 90Not in the top three

HostGator4 of 90Not in the top three

Akamai Connected Cloud3 of 90Not in the top three

GoDaddy3 of 90Not 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 Contabo. 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 8 of the 9 answers that named Contabo and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com8

dev.to5

theweather.agency5

trustpilot.com5

webhostingtalk.com5

g2.com4

hostingadvice.com4

onlinemediamasters.com4

techradar.com3

vincentstout.com3

Forty-six of the forty-six domain citations in answers naming Contabo came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

theweather.agency/blog/hosts-from-hell-the-worlds-worst-web-hosting-companies-and-why-they5

webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php5

dev.to/dkechag/cloud-provider-comparison-2024-vm-performance-price-3h4l4

g2.com/products/contabo/reviews4

onlinemediamasters.com/cloudways-review3

reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/180oq3k/reevaluating_cloud_providers_for_20243

reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/ux7nuc/what_companies_should_someone_never_use3

techradar.com/news/best-cloud-hosting-providers3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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