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Index › Vendors › Coolify · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Coolify

3Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

1 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Coolify was named 2 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 businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market24 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Coolify 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%	24 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 29%
Managed relational databases	Data platform	0%	39 of 73	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 32%

Movement

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 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 "Maximum Control" Budget Route: VPS + Coolify (Self-Hosted)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · budget prompt · alternative

“Try connecting a VPS to an open-source tool like Coolify or Dokku” Gemini 3.5 Flash · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Coolify, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Coolify was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Hetzner2 of 31Not in the top three

Render2 of 30Not in the top three

Civo1 of 31Not in the top three

Neon1 of 31Not in the top three

Turso1 of 31Not in the top three

Akamai Connected Cloud1 of 30Not in the top three

Amazon EKS1 of 30Not in the top three

Amazon RDS1 of 30Not in the top three

Amazon Web Services1 of 30Not in the top three

Azure1 of 30Not 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.

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