Every category where a model named Mirantis Kubernetes Engine 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 Kubernetes platforms	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	15 of 48	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Google Kubernetes Engine at 39%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	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

Direct6 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Cloud-agnostic, built on upstream standards, good for hybrid/on-prem use and multi-cloud portability.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · alternative

“consider a cloud-agnostic platform like Mirantis” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · comparative 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Mirantis Kubernetes Engine was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Kubernetes Engine17 of 178Not in the top three

Amazon EKS16 of 172Not in the top three

Azure Kubernetes Service16 of 171Not in the top three

Red Hat OpenShift15 of 173Not in the top three

Rancher12 of 170Not in the top three

VMware Tanzu7 of 170Not in the top three

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform6 of 170Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Kubernetes5 of 171Not in the top three

Rackspace Spot5 of 170Not in the top three

IBM Cloud Kubernetes4 of 170Not 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 Mirantis Kubernetes Engine. 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 16 of the 17 answers that named Mirantis Kubernetes Engine and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

spot.rackspace.com14

medium.com13

northflank.com10

portainer.io10

g2.com9

mirantis.comYour site9

lucaberton.com6

blog.railway.com5

dev.to5

technologymatch.com5

Seventy-seven of the eighty-six domain citations in answers naming Mirantis Kubernetes Engine came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

spot.rackspace.com/blog/kubernetes-managed-services14

medium.com/@BuildShift/15-managed-kubernetes-platforms-ranked-for-developers-2025-9c82acad10

g2.com/categories/enterprise-kubernetes-management9

mirantis.com/blog/best-managed-kubernetes-providers-in-20259

northflank.com/blog/best-managed-kubernetes-platforms9

medium.com/@devlinktips/15-managed-kubernetes-platforms-ranked-for-developers-2025-9c82aca8

blog.railway.com/p/best-managed-kubernetes-hosting-20265

northflank.com/blog/top-managed-kubernetes-hosting-platforms5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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