Every category where a model named Flexential 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	Since September 2026
Colocation providers	Cloud and infrastructure	15%	2 of 78	0%	14	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Flexential yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Flexential across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	2	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	1	1	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	0	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

Direct14 labels7

Paraphrase8 labels3

Comparative8 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained4 labels1

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative2 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative38 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 13 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.

“I would start with Flexential—it balances service quality, geographic coverage, and mid-market-specific support better than any other option.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Colocation · direct prompt · first choice

“Flexential (Best Overall for Hybrid IT & Lean IT Teams) ... widely considered a gold standard for mid-market enterprises” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Colocation · direct prompt · first choice

“I'd start with Flexential for a typical mid-market B2B company” GPT-6 Luna · Colocation · direct prompt · first choice

“Best value for many small/medium businesses: Flexential” GPT-5.4 mini · Colocation · 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 Flexential, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Flexential was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Equinix32 of 387Compare →

CoreSite26 of 382Compare →

Digital Realty19 of 382Compare →

DataBank18 of 383Compare →

TierPoint18 of 383Compare →

CyrusOne12 of 380Not among the top eight

Iron Mountain Data Centers10 of 380Not among the top eight

NTT Global Data Centers8 of 380Not among the top eight

InterServer5 of 383Not among the top eight

QTS4 of 380Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Flexential. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 37 of the 38 answers that named Flexential and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

quotecolo.com23

feeds.sabertoothpro.com17

guideflow.com16

techradar.com13

databank.com12

flexential.comYour site12

slashdot.org12

dgtlinfra.com10

metrocoloadvisory.com10

sourceforge.net10

123 of the 135 domain citations in answers naming Flexential came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

quotecolo.com/colocation-providers20

feeds.sabertoothpro.com/blog/best-colocation-service-provider-usa17

guideflow.com/blog/colocation-services16

techradar.com/news/best-colocation-hosting13

dgtlinfra.com/top-10-colocation-providers10

gartner.com/reviews/market/colocation-providers8

metrocoloadvisory.com/provider-comparison8

sites.google.com/view/alexsarchives/best-colocation-providers-of-2026-secure-fast-and-scal7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

flexential.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Flexential takes 15% of first choices and TierPoint takes 22%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “colocation provider”

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not in the top ten

Position for “colocation providers”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 4,400 a month (“flexential”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 306 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 79,719 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 3,699 · 408 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 2,866
Paid Google search: 11 searches its ads show for, about 39 clicks and $915 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 116 text, 4 image · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown December 2021, as Flexential Corp., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 74 in the year, 46 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

15%

rank 2 of 78 in colocation

Segment leader

22%

TierPoint

First choices: 11 across its categories
Named in: 38 answers
Its own site cited: in 37 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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Addresses on flexential.com

820

subdomains included

Content

687

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

14 · 3

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Categories named
Blog	347	undated	DCIM, DLP
News or press	157	undated	Colocation
Report or ebook	75	undated	Colocation
Case study	46	undated
Podcast or video	32	undated
Glossary or explainer	13	undated	Infra monitoring
Comparison	7	undated
Template or tool	4	undated
Webinar or virtual event	3	undated
Conference or event	3	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page flexential.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 October 5, 2026.

Follow Flexential

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

Flexential is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Scalable colocation, cloud, and connectivity solutions for secure, high-performance IT infrastructure.
flexential.com
For: businesses with evolving IT needs
flexential.com
Hosting: WestCentralNortheastSoutheastDenver, COLas Vegas, NVPhoenix, AZPortland, OR
Customers named: Applied DigitalCoreWeaveMetropolitan SoftwareBRIDGE Healthcare PartnersasTechOnyx CenterSourceCredit Union of ColoradoPassTime
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications

What Flexential's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: flexential.com, flexential.com/resources/security, flexential.com/platform, flexential.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

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 Flexential'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 Flexential, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Flexential by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Flexential 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 Flexential, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Flexential is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Flexential is among the products AI models recommend first in Colocation providers this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/cloud/colocation-providers/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/flexential--colocation-providers-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Colocation providers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Colocation providers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/cloud/colocation-providers/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/flexential--colocation-providers-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Colocation providers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Colocation providers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/cloud/colocation-providers/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/flexential--colocation-providers-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Colocation providers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Colocation providers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.