Every category where a model named Google Cloud 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%	12 of 78	11%	46	accepted challenger
Backup and disaster recovery	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	111 of 121	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Veeam at 18%
Managed relational databases	Data platform	0%	40 of 73	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 32%
ML platforms	Data platform	0%	64 of 99	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Azure Machine Learning at 17%
Multi-factor authentication	Identity and access	0%	55 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 42%
Unified endpoint management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	30 of 52	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Intune at 43%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	4	0	5
GPT-5.4 mini	0	3	2	1	6
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	0	3	6
Perplexity Sonar	0	3	0	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	3	1	1	5
Mistral Small	0	1	2	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	5	0	0	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	2	1	4
Kimi K2	0	4	0	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	4	1	0	6
MiniMax M2.5	1	3	0	0	4

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

Direct30 labels1

Paraphrase32 labelsNone

Comparative33 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained30 labelsNone

Scale-constrained13 labelsNone

Negative24 labels5not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative162 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 7 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.

“The major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) generally have better security infrastructure and support” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · first choice

“Google Cloud = "the data-analytics & AI powerhouse" – excels in big-data workloads, machine learning” MiniMax M2.5 · Cloud hosting · comparative prompt · first choice

“For experimentation and initial development: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) free tiers.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · alternative

“Need app hosting with minimal budget? → Google Cloud Platform (cheapest compute + automatic discounts)” Kimi K2 · Cloud hosting · 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.

“avoid standard AWS S3, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud for backup storage” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Backup and DR · budget prompt · hard negative

“A major trap for budget-conscious companies is choosing "hyperscalers" like AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · soft negative

“powerful, but usually more expensive and more complex for small-budget teams unless you carefully optimize” GPT-5.4 mini · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · soft negative

“GCP can sometimes feel less "enterprise-ready" regarding administrative tooling compared to Azure.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Cloud hosting · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud, over the 162 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Cloud was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon Web Services138 of 16259Not in the top three

Microsoft Azure103 of 16224Not in the top three

DigitalOcean73 of 16219Not in the top three

Akamai Connected Cloud53 of 1623Not in the top three

Vultr39 of 1622Not in the top three

Azure37 of 1622Not in the top three

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure37 of 1622Not in the top three

Hetzner22 of 1626Not in the top three

IBM22 of 1620Not in the top three

Cloudways17 of 1625Not 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 Google Cloud. 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 114 of the 162 answers that named Google Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

geekflare.com37

digitalocean.com33

techradar.com29

hostingadvice.com25

forbes.com24

atlantic.net20

aws.amazon.com19

worldmetrics.org19

cloud.google.comYour site18

pcmag.com18

224 of the 242 domain citations in answers naming Google Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

geekflare.com/hosting/best-cloud-hosting-platforms37

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-cloud-hosting21

techradar.com/news/best-cloud-hosting-providers20

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/cloud-service-providers16

meridianitinc.com/blog/best-cloud-server-hosting-providers16

pcmag.com/picks/the-best-cloud-web-hosting-services16

worldmetrics.org/service/enterprise-cloud-hosting15

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/comparing-aws-azure-gcp14

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Google Cloud

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

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) 22Google Cloud (GCP) 4Google 3Google Cloud / AWS / Azure 1Google Cloud Platform 1

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