Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 17 → 10 of 77
23 categories · RankedGoogle Cloud
253Judge labels
5First choices
59Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
23Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Cloud hosting for mid-market buyers
Rank 8 of 85 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 23% of its 57 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Google Cloud →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business12 of 81
2%46 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market8 of 85
2%57 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise10 of 44
0%62 labels
accepted challenger
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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | Cloud and infrastructure | 2% | 8 of 85 | 23% | 57 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Load balancers | Network and edge | 0% | 76 of 94 | 50% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by HAProxy at 29% | |
| Managed DNS | Network and edge | 0% | 62 of 78 | 50% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare DNS at 84% | |
| AI security platforms | Security operations | 0% | 232 of 233 | 100% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11% | |
| AI SOC agents | Security operations | 0% | 62 of 104 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Dropzone AI at 24% | |
| Content delivery networks | Network and edge | 0% | 25 of 49 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 68% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| AI coding assistants | Developer platform | 0% | 32 of 48 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by GitHub Copilot at 75% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| AI governance platforms | Data platform | 0% | 127 of 135 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Credo AI at 18% | |
| API gateways | Developer platform | 0% | 49 of 66 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 53% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| API management | Developer platform | 0% | 38 of 61 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 37% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Artifact and container registries | Developer platform | 0% | 45 of 89 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by JFrog Artifactory at 14% | |
| Attack surface management | Security operations | 0% | 94 of 100 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 49% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Cloud cost management | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 56 of 76 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Vantage at 45% | |
| Data loss prevention | Security operations | 0% | 58 of 89 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview DLP at 46% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Email security | Security operations | 0% | 46 of 76 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 at 32% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| IT financial management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 76 of 159 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Nicus ITFM Platform at 9% | |
| Managed Kubernetes platforms | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 27 of 52 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Google Kubernetes Engine at 43% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Managed relational databases | Data platform | 0% | 48 of 82 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 45% | goneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026. |
| Telemetry pipelines | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 92 of 124 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by OpenTelemetry Collector at 37% | |
| Threat intelligence platforms | Security operations | 0% | 55 of 119 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by MISP at 12% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Unified endpoint management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 37 of 53 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Intune at 39% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Vector databases | Data platform | 0% | 33 of 44 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by pgvector at 35% | |
| Zero trust network access | Network and edge | 0% | 49 of 66 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Twingate at 39% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Google Cloud held within the floor in all twenty-two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Cloud hosting · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 12 → 7 of 75
Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 → 9 of 41
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 12 → 8 of 85 |
| Load balancers | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 76 of 94, unchanged |
| Managed DNS | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 62 of 78, unchanged |
| AI security | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 232 of 233, unchanged |
| AI SOC agents | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 62 of 104, unchanged |
| CDN | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 25 of 49, unchanged |
| AI coding | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 32 of 48, unchanged |
| AI governance | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 127 of 135, unchanged |
| API gateways | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 49 of 66, unchanged |
| API management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 38 of 61, unchanged |
| Artifact registries | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 45 of 89, unchanged |
| ASM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 94 of 100, unchanged |
| FinOps | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 56 of 76, unchanged |
| DLP | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 58 of 89, unchanged |
| Email security | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 46 of 76, unchanged |
| Managed Kubernetes | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 27 of 52, unchanged |
| Managed databases | 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 36 → 48 of 82 |
| Telemetry pipelines | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 92 of 124, unchanged |
| Threat intel | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 55 of 119, unchanged |
| UEM | 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 27 → 37 of 53 |
| Vector databases | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 33 of 44, unchanged |
| ZTNA | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 49 of 66, 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 Google Cloud 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 Google Cloud 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 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
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
Direct50 labels3
Paraphrase40 labels1
Comparative50 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained36 labels1
Scale-constrained21 labelsNone
Negative56 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative253 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 10 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 hyperscalers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform) generally offer superior reliability” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · first choice
“Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is known for its data analytics, AI/ML capabilities, and competitive pricing” Mistral Small · Cloud hosting · direct prompt · first choice
“GCP (3rd, fastest-growing ~28% YoY) | Data analytics, AI/ML, containers” Grok 4.20 · Cloud hosting · comparative prompt · first choice
“If analytics, AI, or data-driven workloads are central to your strategy, Google Cloud can be a compelling choice.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cloud hosting · paraphrase 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.
“leaders (Apigee/Google, AWS, Azure, MuleSoft, IBM) are more enterprise-heavy/expensive\u2014better for larger mid-market but overkill for many” Grok 4.20 · API gateways · direct prompt · soft negative
“Major AI platforms like OpenAI, Google (DeepMind, Gemini), Anthropic, Meta, and Microsoft have experienced data leaks and security incidents” Mistral Small · AI security · negative prompt · soft negative
“Google Cloud, for example, has had incidents affecting Cloud DNS-related operations and other core cloud services in recent years” GPT-5.4 mini · Managed DNS · negative prompt · soft negative
“Raw hyperscalers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure ... require more self-management, and can become expensive” Perplexity Sonar · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud, over the 253 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud, over the 253 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.
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 Google Cloud. 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 226 of the 253 answers that named Google Cloud and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
digitalocean.com57
atlantic.net56
hostingadvice.com43
g2.com36
aws.amazon.com34
linkedin.com33
techradar.com28
bluehost.com27
cloudzero.com27
hostinger.com27
368 of the 368 domain citations in answers naming Google Cloud came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
google.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Google Cloud takes 2% of first choices and Amazon Web Services takes 32%.ShowHide
Search and answers
google.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Google Cloud takes 2% of first choices and Amazon Web Services takes 32%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cloud hosting provider”
1
Position for “cloud hosting providers”
1
- Searches for its name, Google
- 165,000 a month (“google cloud”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 7,596 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,800,358,416 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 16,240,774 · 2,471,277 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 28,655,444
- Paid Google search
- 243 searches its ads show for, about 42,266 clicks and $465,944 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 8 of 85 in cloud hosting
Segment leader
32%
Amazon Web Services
- First choices
- 5 across its categories
- Named in
- 253 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 226 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.
What it publishes
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on google.com
7,607
subdomains included
Content
1,201
counted in the table below
Documentation
137
Product · Integration
18 · 84
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case study | 707 | undated | |||
| Blog | 372 | 0 | 2018-12-13 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 51 | 0 | 2018-12-13 | ||
| Comparison | 35 | undated | |||
| News or press | 34 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2018-12-13Best practices for in app rewarded video ads blog
- 2018-12-13How to monetize your mobile apps with ads blog
- 2018-12-13What is AdMob - Google AdMob glossary or explainer
- 2018-11-19App marketing strategies to grow and monetize your app blog
- 2018-11-19How much revenue can you earn from admob blog
- 2018-11-19How to earn money with in app advertising blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page google.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. Read September 29, 2026.
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) 24Google 13Google Cloud (GCP) 3Google Cloud Platform 3Apigee/Google 1Google (DeepMind, Gemini) 1Google Cloud (Apigee) 1Google Cloud (Chronicle SecOps / Gemini) 1Google Cloud (GKE) 1Google Cloud/Mandiant 1Google/Mandiant Threat Intel 1
Follow Google Cloud
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
Google Cloud is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Google Cloud is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AdMob Mediation helps you earn more app revenue, deliver a better user experience, and surface actionable insights — all with automated tools that do the hard work for you.
- For
- developers
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Google Cloud's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: google.com, google.com/adwords/express/pricing, google.com/admob/platform.html. 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 Google Cloud'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, 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 Google Cloud by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Google Cloud 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, 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.