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Index Vendors › H2O.ai · September 2026 Edition
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H2O.ai

46Judge labels
2First choices
5Negative 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.
Best standing
2% in ML platforms for enterprise buyers
Rank 20 of 99 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 13% of its 15 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In ml platforms · 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 H2O.ai 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
ML platformsData platform0%20 of 9913%15accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for H2O.ai 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 H2O.ai across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500202
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar01012
Grok 4.1 Fast00213
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash02103
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00101
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01102
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Direct10 labels1
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative19 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labels1
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative46 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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 want open-source flexibility: H2O.ai, MLflow, and Kubeflow give you control and self-hosting options.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ML platforms · comparative prompt · alternative
“platforms with strong auditability and on-premise options (e.g., Domino Data Lab, H2O.ai)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ML platforms · negative prompt · alternative
“Choose H2O.ai if you want open-source flexibility with enterprise capabilities.” Perplexity Sonar · ML platforms · comparative prompt · alternative
“If you want fast AutoML for tabular problems: H2O.ai” GPT-5.4 mini · ML platforms · 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.

“it may not be a great fit for specialized model development and can get expensive at enterprise tier” Perplexity Sonar · ML platforms · negative prompt · soft negative
“Open-source like H2O.ai for cost-sensitive (free core, but needs expertise)” Grok 4.1 Fast · ML platforms · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as H2O.ai, over the 46 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and H2O.ai was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Amazon SageMaker42 of 467Not in the top three
Google Vertex AI42 of 466Not in the top three
Azure Machine Learning39 of 467Not in the top three
DataRobot34 of 460Not in the top three
Databricks27 of 462Not in the top three
Dataiku24 of 460Not in the top three
MLflow15 of 462Not in the top three
Domino Data Lab15 of 461Not in the top three
KNIME13 of 460Not in the top three
Kubeflow8 of 460Not 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 H2O.ai. 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 43 of the 46 answers that named H2O.ai and are not a share of its labels.

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