Every category where a model named Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 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
Cloud hosting	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	14 of 78	15%	13	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	2	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	1	3
Mistral Small	0	2	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	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

Direct6 labelsNone

Paraphrase5 labelsNone

Comparative16 labelsNone

Budget-constrained9 labels3

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative42 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.

“Choose OCI if you are running massive databases or need raw, cost-effective GPU compute power.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · comparative prompt · alternative

“Excellent price/performance, 10TB free egress/month | Enterprise-focused, less developer-friendly” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cloud hosting · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“OCI if you’re highly cost-sensitive and want to optimize infrastructure spend.” GPT-5.4 mini · Cloud hosting · direct prompt · alternative

“Particularly attractive for Oracle database workloads” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cloud hosting · 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 for mission-critical business production” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · hard negative

“Oracle Cloud: Dropped from benchmarks for poor value; mixed support complaints.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, over the 42 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon Web Services38 of 4226Not in the top three

Google Cloud37 of 421Not in the top three

Microsoft Azure30 of 423Not in the top three

IBM17 of 420Not in the top three

DigitalOcean15 of 421Not in the top three

Akamai Connected Cloud12 of 420Not in the top three

Alibaba Cloud12 of 420Not in the top three

Azure9 of 421Not in the top three

Vultr8 of 420Not in the top three

Hetzner6 of 421Not 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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. 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 34 of the 42 answers that named Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

geekflare.com17

worldmetrics.org12

digitalocean.com10

oracle.comYour site10

crn.com8

meridianitinc.com8

wifitalents.com8

dev.to7

pcmag.com7

aws.amazon.com6

Eighty-three of the ninety-three domain citations in answers naming Oracle Cloud Infrastructure came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

geekflare.com/hosting/best-cloud-hosting-platforms17

worldmetrics.org/service/enterprise-cloud-hosting9

meridianitinc.com/blog/best-cloud-server-hosting-providers8

wifitalents.com/service/enterprise-cloud-hosting8

crn.com/news/cloud/2024/top-8-cloud-platform-services-ranked-azure-aws-google-lead-gartner6

dev.to/dkechag/cloud-provider-comparison-2024-vm-performance-price-3h4l5

docs.cloud.google.com/docs/get-started/aws-azure-gcp-service-comparison5

nortonmediaenterprise.com/tech/best-cloud-hosting-providers5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 6Oracle Cloud 4Oracle 2Oracle Cloud "Always Free" Tier 1

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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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure'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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at oracle.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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