3 categories · Named, not rankedIONOS
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | Cloud and infrastructure | 2% | 10 of 78 | 14% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 29% |
| Managed Kubernetes platforms | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 44 of 48 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Google Kubernetes Engine at 39% |
| Object storage | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 25 of 46 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Backblaze B2 at 46% |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If you need the absolute lowest cost, Kamatera or IONOS are your best bets.” Mistral Small · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · first choice
“Hostinger or IONOS — the included control panels, support, and management make them the easiest for non-experts on a budget.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · alternative
“For low-cost, predictable pricing with no long-term contracts: Kamatera, Ionos, or DreamHost.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · alternative
“good for a strict budget and basic business hosting needs” Perplexity Sonar · 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.
“behaves unpredictably often enough that it's treated as high-risk” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative
“some smaller providers like IONOS have reported outage issues” MiniMax M2.5 · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 15 of the 15 answers that named IONOS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-four of the fifty-four domain citations in answers naming IONOS came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as IONOS
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