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Linode Managed Databases

20Judge labels

3First choices

4Negative labels

9 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.

Standing

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Linode Managed Databases was named 8 times in Managed databases, where Amazon RDS led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business8 of 63

under the label threshold

Mid-market11 of 73

under the label threshold

Enterprise75 of 78

under the label threshold

In managed databases · 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 Linode Managed Databases 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
Managed relational databases	Data platform	2%	11 of 73	12%	8	under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 32%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Linode Managed Databases 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 Linode Managed Databases across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	0	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	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	0	1

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained9 labels3

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative6 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“the best value is typically DigitalOcean, Linode, or Vultr Managed Databases (~$15/mo)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice

“Linode / Vultr Managed Databases | $15 / mo ... choose based on preferred compute provider” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed databases · budget prompt · alternative

“DigitalOcean, Linode, or Vultr managed databases starting around $15/month” Perplexity Sonar · Managed databases · budget prompt · alternative

“DigitalOcean, Linode, or Vultr at $15/month are excellent alternatives.” Mistral Small · Managed databases · 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.

“Bare-Bones "Low-Cost" Managed Databases (e.g., Hetzner, Linode/Akamai)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Linode Managed Databases, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Linode Managed Databases was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

DigitalOcean Managed Databases19 of 204Not in the top three

Azure SQL Database14 of 200Not in the top three

Amazon RDS13 of 204Not in the top three

Google Cloud SQL12 of 201Not in the top three

Neon11 of 201Not in the top three

Vultr11 of 200Not in the top three

Railway8 of 202Not in the top three

Supabase8 of 200Not in the top three

PlanetScale7 of 200Not in the top three

Render Postgres7 of 200Not 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 Linode Managed Databases. 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 17 of the 20 answers that named Linode Managed Databases and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudpricecheck.com14

toolradar.com14

g2.com9

auxiliar.ai8

cloudexpat.com8

digitalocean.com8

northflank.com7

aws.amazon.com6

tech-insider.org6

reddit.com5

Eighty-five of the eighty-five domain citations in answers naming Linode Managed Databases came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudpricecheck.com/guides/choosing-cloud-database14

toolradar.com/best/managed-databases/for/small-businesses9

auxiliar.ai/database8

cloudexpat.com/compare/rds-vs-azure-sql-vs-cloud-sql8

northflank.com/blog/best-database-providers7

g2.com/categories/database-as-a-service-dbaas/small-business6

aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing5

tech-insider.org/aws-rds-vs-azure-database-vs-google-cloud-sql-20265

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Linode Managed Databases

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Linode Managed Databases; a claim can dispute any of them.

Linode 4Linode / Vultr 1Linode/Akamai 1

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