Index › Vendors › Nutanix Kubernetes Platform · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform

10Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

6 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Nutanix Kubernetes Platform was named 2 times in Managed Kubernetes, where Google Kubernetes Engine led with 39%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business54 of 56

under the label threshold

Mid-market39 of 48

under the label threshold

Enterprise14 of 62

under the label threshold

In managed kubernetes · 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 Nutanix Kubernetes Platform 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%	39 of 48	50%	2	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 Nutanix Kubernetes Platform 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 Nutanix Kubernetes Platform across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Negative	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	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	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

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“shines for hybrid‑cloud and on‑prem workloads tightly integrated with Nutanix HCI” GLM 4.7 FlashX · 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.

“Not recommended if you value multi-cloud portability or plan to move workloads later.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Nutanix Kubernetes Platform was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Red Hat OpenShift10 of 102Not in the top three

Google Kubernetes Engine9 of 102Not in the top three

Amazon EKS9 of 100Not in the top three

Rancher9 of 100Not in the top three

Azure Kubernetes Service8 of 100Not in the top three

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine6 of 100Not in the top three

VMware Tanzu4 of 100Not in the top three

Portainer3 of 100Not in the top three

Rackspace Spot3 of 100Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Kubernetes2 of 102Not 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 Nutanix Kubernetes Platform. 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 8 of the 10 answers that named Nutanix Kubernetes Platform and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

medium.com7

spot.rackspace.com7

portainer.io6

northflank.com5

squareops.com4

dev.to3

lucaberton.com3

mirantis.com3

blog.railway.com2

g2.com2

No domain is on file for Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

spot.rackspace.com/blog/kubernetes-managed-services7

medium.com/@BuildShift/15-managed-kubernetes-platforms-ranked-for-developers-2025-9c82acad4

medium.com/@devlinktips/15-managed-kubernetes-platforms-ranked-for-developers-2025-9c82aca4

portainer.io/blog/enterprise-kubernetes-management-platform4

dev.to/dev_tips/comparing-the-top-10-managed-kubernetes-providers-2025-edition-12h83

lucaberton.com/blog/eks-vs-aks-vs-gke-20263

medium.com/@elliotgraebert/comparing-the-top-eight-managed-kubernetes-providers-2ae39662393

mirantis.com/blog/best-managed-kubernetes-providers-in-20253

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Nutanix Kubernetes Platform

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

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) 1

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