Every category where a model named Google Cloud CDN 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
Content delivery networks	Network and edge	0%	8 of 49	14%	22	accepted challenger	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Google Cloud CDN held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · CDN · by segment

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 24 → 41 of 43

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 6 → 8 of 44

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 6 of 43, unchanged

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
CDN	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 6 → 8 of 49

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 Google Cloud CDN across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.20	1	2	0	3
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	1	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	0	0	2

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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase5 labelsNone

Comparative24 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative16 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative56 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.

“Same for Google Cloud CDN / Microsoft Azure Front Door if you're on those clouds.” Muse Glimmer 30B · CDN · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“consider CloudFront or Google Cloud CDN if you're already on those clouds” GPT-6 Luna · CDN · comparative prompt · alternative

“strongest when CDN decisions are closely tied to existing cloud architecture” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CDN · comparative prompt · alternative

“most attractive when your infrastructure is centered on Google Cloud” Perplexity Sonar · CDN · comparative 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.

“a cloud‑wide incident can affect your CDN, and you may have limited control over the underlying network” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CDN · negative prompt · soft negative

“Lack of Automatic Price Caps... bills for $10,000 to $50,000 overnight” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CDN · negative prompt · soft negative

“Performance variance can be significant” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CDN · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud CDN, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Cloud CDN was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare54 of 5632Not among the top eight

Fastly52 of 562Not among the top eight

Amazon CloudFront52 of 561Not among the top eight

Akamai45 of 5611Not among the top eight

Bunny.net35 of 563Not among the top eight

Azure CDN21 of 560Not among the top eight

KeyCDN17 of 561Not among the top eight

Azure Front Door16 of 560Not among the top eight

CDN7710 of 561Not among the top eight

CDNetworks9 of 560Not 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 Google Cloud CDN. 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 54 of the 56 answers that named Google Cloud CDN and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.blazingcdn.com43

fastly.com31

broadbandnow.com20

cdnetworks.com19

edgenext.com14

linkedin.com14

atlantic.net13

g2.com13

techradar.com13

33rdsquare.com11

191 of the 191 domain citations in answers naming Google Cloud CDN came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/top-cdn-providers-2025-an-expert-guide-to-types-technologies-and22

broadbandnow.com/guides/CDN-Providers20

cdnetworks.com/blog/web-performance/best-cdn-providers17

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/top-cdn-providers-2025-an-expert-guide-to-types-technologies-and14

atlantic.net/cloud-platform/best-cdn-providers-for-performance-security13

edgenext.com/resources/blog/best-cdn-providers-2026-top-global-content-delivery-networks-c13

fastly.com/blog/best-cdn-providers13

techradar.com/news/best-cdn-providers13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

google.dev is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Google Cloud CDN takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare takes 68%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “cdn”

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not in the top ten

Position for “cdns”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 480 a month (“google cloud cdn”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 6 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 881,346 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 22,650 · 2,977 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 29,239
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 120 text · 109 shown in the last 30 days

First shown February 2025, as Google LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 103 in the year, 17 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 8 of 49 in CDN

Segment leader

68%

Cloudflare

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 56 answers
Its own site cited: in 54 of the answers that named it

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.

Names read as Google Cloud CDN

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Google Cloud CDN; a claim can dispute any of them.

Google Cloud CDN / Media CDN 2

Follow Google Cloud CDN

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.

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The company

Google Cloud is the company behind Google Cloud CDN.

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On record

Company records

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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 Google Cloud CDN'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 Google Cloud CDN, 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 Google Cloud CDN by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Google Cloud CDN 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 Google Cloud CDN, 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.