Hetzner · 1 category · Named, not rankedHetzner DNS
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed DNS | Network and edge | 0% | 48 of 78 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare DNS at 84% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Hetzner DNS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
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.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Hetzner DNS, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hetzner DNS was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 1 of the 2 answers that named Hetzner DNS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eight of the ten domain citations in answers naming Hetzner DNS came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
hetzner.com ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Hetzner DNS takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare DNS takes 84%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Its company's site
- hetzner.com shared with Hetzner's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 70,486 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,479 · 397 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 106,500
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 2 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 1 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.
Follow Hetzner DNS
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
Hetzner is the company behind Hetzner DNS.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company records- Also from Hetzner
- Hetzner Cloud Load Balancer
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- DNS management solution for an easy to use management solution
- For
- Neukunden; aktuelle Robot-Account-Nutzer; Nutzer, die Zonen und Einträge über Console und API verwalten wollen
- Price stated
- free of charge hetzner.com/dns
- Free plan or trial
- free of charge hetzner.com/dns
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Hetzner DNS's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: hetzner.com/dns, hetzner.com/de/dns. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 Hetzner DNS'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 Hetzner DNS, 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 Hetzner DNS by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Hetzner DNS 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 Hetzner DNS, 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.