| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | Cloud and infrastructure | 2% | 9 of 85 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 32% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Virtual desktops | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 69 of 81 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Azure Virtual Desktop at 22% |
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | 4% | 2% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 9 of 85 |
| Virtual desktops | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 69 of 81, 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
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 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 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Kamatera is one of the cheapest and most easily scalable cloud hosting providers, with prices starting at $4.00/month” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · first choice
“provides personalized VPS hosting solutions for small—to medium-sized businesses, with flexible pricing and scalability options” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Cloud hosting · direct prompt · alternative
“Unequivocally the best cloud hosting provider we know when it comes to affordability, Kamatera plans start at less than $5.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · alternative
“Tier-2 providers like DigitalOcean, Vultr and Kamatera offer lower cost and simpler operations” Muse Glimmer 30B · Cloud hosting · comparative prompt · alternative
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.
“Not ideal unless you have IT expertise on staff.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Virtual desktops · budget prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 12 of the 12 answers that named Kamatera and are not a share of its labels.
Forty-three of the forty-three domain citations in answers naming Kamatera came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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.
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 70 | 1 | 2026-08-08 | ||
| Comparison | 6 | undated | Object storage | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | 1 | 2026-07-28 |
Every page kamatera.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.
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.
What Kamatera's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: kamatera.com, kamatera.com/pricing, kamatera.com/products/api, kamatera.com/marketplace. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 Kamatera'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 Kamatera, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Kamatera by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows: