Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 62 → 54 of 77
GCP
32Judge labels
0First choices
12Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
8 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. GCP was named 8 times in Cloud hosting and 4 other categories, where Amazon Web Services led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business57 of 81
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market27 of 85
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise30 of 44
0%4 labels
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 GCP 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 27 of 85 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 32% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Load balancers | Network and edge | 0% | 31 of 94 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by HAProxy at 29% | |
| Data masking and test data management | Data platform | 0% | 128 of 140 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by DATPROF at 17% | |
| Enterprise storage systems | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 99 of 167 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Dell PowerStore at 16% | |
| Telemetry pipelines | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 91 of 124 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by OpenTelemetry Collector at 37% |
Movement
Since September 2026, GCP held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Cloud hosting · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 41 → 24 of 75
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 40 → 25 of 41
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 41 → 27 of 85 |
| Load balancers | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 31 of 94, unchanged |
| Data masking | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 128 of 140, unchanged |
| Enterprise storage | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 99 of 167, unchanged |
| Telemetry pipelines | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 91 of 124, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated GCP across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated GCP across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct4 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative13 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative32 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.
“cloud-native (AWS ELB/ALB, Azure Load Balancer, GCP) scales effortlessly” Grok 4.20 · Load balancers · scale prompt · alternative
“AWS, Azure, or GCP are described as a quick and cheap way to start” Perplexity Sonar · Load balancers · budget 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.
“Native masking options in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake) work well for single-platform environments but struggle when masking spans multiple systems” MiniMax M2.5 · Data masking · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as GCP, over the 32 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GCP was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as GCP, over the 32 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GCP was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 GCP. 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 26 of the 32 answers that named GCP and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
learn.microsoft.com8
aws.amazon.com7
linkedin.com7
atlantic.net5
g2.com5
getautonoma.com5
guideflow.com5
kanerika.com5
loadbalancer.org5
airbyte.com4
No domain is on file for GCP, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where GCP stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where GCP stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 135,000 a month (“gcp”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 5,203 a month
- Its own site
- No site of its own on file, so no site figures
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 27 of 85 in cloud hosting
Segment leader
32%
Amazon Web Services
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 32 answers
- Its own site cited
- No site on file to match
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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.
Follow GCP
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.
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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 GCP'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 GCP, 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 GCP by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where GCP 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 GCP, 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.