DigitalOcean · 1 category · RankedDigitalOcean Kubernetes
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed Kubernetes platforms | Cloud and infrastructure | 22% | 2 of 48 | 12% | 42 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Best Overall for Limited Budgets: DigitalOcean DOKS or Linode LKE tend to offer the best value for smaller deployments” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Managed Kubernetes · budget prompt · first choice
“Best all‑around budget choice: DigitalOcean DOKS – free control plane, per‑second billing, generous bandwidth” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed Kubernetes · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with DigitalOcean (DOKS) or Civo - both offer free control planes and simple, predictable pricing” Kimi K2 · Managed Kubernetes · budget prompt · first choice
“DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is the best managed Kubernetes platform for a company with a limited budget.” Grok 4.1 Fast · 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.
“Avoid if: Production needing 99.99%+ uptime or fast support.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · hard negative
“DigitalOcean lacks the deep enterprise compliance tooling, advanced VPC security controls, and global regional footprint” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · direct prompt · soft negative
“DigitalOcean lacks the deeply granular enterprise security controls ... that Fortune 500 B2B buyers often demand.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“usually less ideal for a mid-sized B2B company with more serious platform requirements.” GPT-5.4 mini · Managed Kubernetes · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 90 of the 113 answers that named DigitalOcean Kubernetes and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
384 of the 425 domain citations in answers naming DigitalOcean Kubernetes came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as DigitalOcean Kubernetes
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