Small business=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 16 of 77, unchanged
1 category · Named, not rankedIONOS
10Judge labels
2First choices
2Negative labels
7 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
5 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. IONOS was named 5 times in Cloud hosting, where Amazon Web Services led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business17 of 81
2%3 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market11 of 85
2%5 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
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 IONOS 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% | 11 of 85 | 20% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 32% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, IONOS held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Cloud hosting · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 10 → 9 of 75
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | 2% | 2% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 10 → 11 of 85 |
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 IONOS 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 IONOS 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained4 labels2
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 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.
“IONOS is a strong default choice because it is repeatedly positioned as budget-friendly” Perplexity Sonar · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · first choice
“IONOS, Kamatera, and HostArmada are excellent places to start” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · alternative
“Small business/website: IONOS or Verpex” MiniMax M2.5 · 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.
“The Verdict: Be highly cautious.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as IONOS, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IONOS was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as IONOS, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IONOS 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 IONOS. 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 10 of the 10 answers that named IONOS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cybernews.com6
techradar.com6
atlantic.net5
bluehost.com4
forbes.com4
hostingadvice.com4
hostinger.com4
scalahosting.com4
a2cloudhostingservices.com3
cnet.com3
Forty-three of the forty-three domain citations in answers naming IONOS came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
ionos.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, IONOS takes 2% of first choices and Amazon Web Services takes 32%.ShowHide
Search and answers
ionos.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, IONOS takes 2% of first choices and Amazon Web Services takes 32%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cloud hosting provider”
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not in the top ten
Position for “cloud hosting providers”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 74,000 a month (“ionos”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 2,041 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,543,256 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 193,201 · 3,312 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 39,128
- Paid Google search
- 22 searches its ads show for, about 3,948 clicks and $26,166 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 11 of 85 in cloud hosting
Segment leader
32%
Amazon Web Services
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 10 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 10 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
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on ionos.com
9,851
subdomains included
Content
85
counted in the table below
Documentation
6,217
Product · Integration
6 · 2,461
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case study | 28 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 26 | 6 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Report or ebook | 8 | 2 | 2026-08-05 | ||
| News or press | 8 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 4 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 4 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 3 | undated | |||
| Blog | 2 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Get templates template or tool
- 2026-09-28Get template by id template or tool
- 2026-09-07Get templates template or tool
- 2026-09-01Get template or tool
- 2026-09-01List template or tool
- 2026-09-01List template or tool
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page ionos.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow IONOS
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
IONOS is its own company.ShowHide
The company
IONOS is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Hosting and cloud solutions for all businesses.
- For
- all businesses
- Price stated
- Starting at $1/year ionos.com
- Starting price
- $1/year ionos.com
- Free plan or trial
- Get 1st month free ionos.com
- Certifications
- Extended Validation
- Hosting
- United States of America
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, customers
What IONOS's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: ionos.com, ionos.com/security/ev-ssl. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 IONOS'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 IONOS, 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 IONOS by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where IONOS 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 IONOS, 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.