Index › Vendors › GCP · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

GCP

22Judge labels

0First choices

11Negative labels

11 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, 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, 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 business63 of 70

under the label threshold

Mid-market43 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprise41 of 53

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
Cloud hosting	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	43 of 78	38%	8	under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 29%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 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.

“If you are Google Workspace-centric, GCP may feel more natural.” Kimi K2 · Cloud hosting · scale 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.

“Avoid big clouds like AWS/GCP/Azure for tiny budgets” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · hard negative

“Egress bandwidth overages can spike bills on AWS/GCP” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · soft negative

“they are highly complex and can be very expensive” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as GCP, over the 22 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon Web Services19 of 220Not in the top three

Azure19 of 220Not in the top three

DigitalOcean12 of 226Not in the top three

Vultr10 of 221Not in the top three

Akamai Connected Cloud9 of 220Not in the top three

Cloudways7 of 222Not in the top three

Hetzner6 of 221Not in the top three

SiteGround5 of 222Not in the top three

Hostinger5 of 221Not in the top three

GoDaddy4 of 220Not 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.

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, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 17 of the 22 answers that named GCP and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

techradar.com9

digitalocean.com8

hostingadvice.com8

atlantic.net5

reddit.com5

forbes.com4

newsweek.com4

theweather.agency4

adivi.com3

dev.to3

No domain is on file for GCP, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

techradar.com/news/best-cloud-hosting-providers7

atlantic.net/cloud-platform/best-cloud-hosting-providers-small-businesses4

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/digitalocean-vs-linode-vs-vultr4

hostingadvice.com/how-to/best-business-cloud-hosting4

newsweek.com/vault/small-business/best-cloud-hosting-services4

theweather.agency/blog/hosts-from-hell-the-worlds-worst-web-hosting-companies-and-why-they4

adivi.com/blog/best-cloud-hosting-providers3

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/comparing-aws-azure-gcp3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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