1 category · RankedEquinix
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colocation providers | Cloud and infrastructure | 10% | 4 of 78 | 25% | 44 | criticized challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Equinix across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Equinix and Digital Realty are the two market leaders with strong global footprints and advanced interconnection and AI-ready capabilities.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Colocation · comparative prompt · first choice
“For most mid-sized B2B companies, Equinix is the best overall choice due to its unmatched global ecosystem and interconnection capabilities.” Mistral Small · Colocation · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Equinix is widely considered the gold standard in the industry... Equinix is usually the best choice because almost everyone peers there.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Colocation · comparative prompt · first choice
“Equinix and DataBank are frequently cited as top choices due to their balance of performance, compliance, and ecosystem access” Mistral Small · Colocation · direct 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 hyperscale giants (Equinix, Digital Realty): ... will likely be overkill and overpriced for a mid-market B2B firm.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Colocation · direct prompt · hard negative
“you should generally avoid Tier-1 premium global giants like Equinix, Digital Realty, or CyrusOne” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Colocation · budget prompt · hard negative
“Despite being the largest colocation provider globally, recent reports indicate continued maintenance budget reductions that may impact reliability” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Colocation · negative prompt · soft negative
“Caveat: Premium pricing and enterprise-scale focus may mean you're paying for ecosystem features you don't need yet.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Colocation · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Equinix, over the 137 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Equinix was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 126 of the 137 answers that named Equinix and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
437 of the 437 domain citations in answers naming Equinix came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
equinix.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Equinix takes 10% of first choices and TierPoint takes 22%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 33,100 a month (“equinix”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 2,002 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 83,527 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 12,061 · 1,127 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 12,645
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 32 across its categories
- Named in
- 137 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 126 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,006 | 0 | 2023-05-15 | ||
| News or press | 805 | 16 | 2026-09-10 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 82 | 0 | 2023-11-01 | ||
| Conference or event | 66 | 1 | 2026-07-01 | ||
| Comparison | 29 | 0 | 2025-08-19 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 7 | 0 | 2022-08-18 | ||
| Report or ebook | 5 | 0 | 2016-11-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | 1 | 2026-09-14 | ||
| Podcast or video | 3 | 0 | 2025-07-28 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-14Macsec replay window baseline calculator user guide 1198 template or tool
- 2026-09-10News events news or press
- 2026-09-10Press Releases news or press
- 2026-09-10Equinix names dd dasgupta as chief marketing officer news or press
- 2026-09-04Media alert equinix to speak at upcoming investor news or press
- 2026-09-02Cpp investments and equinix complete atnorth acquisition to news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page equinix.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 Equinix
Follow Equinix
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Equinix is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The largest global data center and colocation provider for enterprise network and cloud computing.
- For
- enterprise
- Hosting
- Across 77 markets on every continent.
- Customers named
- Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications
What Equinix's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: equinix.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Equinix's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Equinix, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Equinix by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Equinix 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 Equinix, 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.