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	Since September 2026
Cloud hosting	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	16 of 85	15%	20	accepted challenger	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · Cloud hosting · by segment

Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 2% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 15 → 55 of 77

Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 14 → 15 of 75

Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 5% → 5%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

5%from 5% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 3 of 41, unchanged

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
Cloud hosting	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 14 → 16 of 85

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

By model

How each model treated Oracle Cloud Infrastructure across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	2	0	1	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	2	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	1	3	0	4
Mistral Small	1	1	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	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	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

Direct10 labelsNone

Paraphrase7 labelsNone

Comparative22 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labels2

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative57 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“If budget is *extremely* tight and you have technical staff, Oracle Cloud's free tier is an unbeatable first step.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · alternative

“Choose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) if your top priority is minimizing compute and especially egress costs” GPT-5.4 mini · Cloud hosting · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Significantly cheaper – claims 50% less for compute ... Best for: Oracle database users, cost-conscious enterprises” Kimi K2 · Cloud hosting · comparative prompt · alternative

“OCI is often positioned around lower pricing for compute, storage, and networking” GPT-5.4 mini · 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.

“Customer support is virtually non-existent on the free tier, accounts are notoriously difficult to get approved” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · soft negative

“strong ratings, but it's more niche than AWS/Azure/GCP” GPT-5.4 mini · Cloud hosting · direct prompt · soft negative

“The Verdict: Use with extreme caution.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, over the 57 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.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon Web Services50 of 5732Not among the top eight

Google Cloud48 of 574Not among the top eight

Microsoft Azure36 of 578Not among the top eight

IBM29 of 570Not among the top eight

DigitalOcean Droplets24 of 571Not among the top eight

Akamai Connected Cloud16 of 570Not among the top eight

Alibaba Cloud16 of 570Not among the top eight

Azure15 of 572Not among the top eight

Vultr15 of 571Not among the top eight

Hetzner8 of 572Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 48 of the 57 answers that named Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

atlantic.net22

digitalocean.com16

oracle.comYour site15

hostingadvice.com14

linkedin.com14

aws.amazon.com13

cloud.google.com9

cloudzero.com8

bluehost.com7

crn.com7

110 of the 125 domain citations in answers naming Oracle Cloud Infrastructure came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

atlantic.net/cloud-platform/best-enterprise-hosting-providers18

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/cloud-service-providers10

cybernews.com/best-web-hosting/cloud-web-hosting6

hostingadvice.com/how-to/aws-azure-google-cloud-alternatives6

avenga.com/magazine/top-cloud-service-providers5

charterglobal.com/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-cloud-platforms5

datamation.com/cloud/cloud-service-providers5

holori.com/top-cloud-providers-in-20245

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Oracle Cloud Infrastructure stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 6,600 a month (“oracle cloud infrastructure”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 79 a month
Its own site: It sits on Oracle's site (oracle.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 16 of 85 in cloud hosting

Segment leader

32%

Amazon Web Services

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 57 answers
Its own site cited: in 48 of the answers that named it

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.

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) 8Oracle Cloud 7Oracle 2Oracle Cloud (Always Free Tier) 1Oracle Cloud (OCI) 1Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, OCI 1

Follow Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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.

The company

Oracle is the company behind Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

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On record

Company records

Also from Oracle: Oracle AI, Oracle API Gateway, Oracle API Management, Oracle Access Governance, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Autonomous AI Database, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Oracle Autonomous Database and 44 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: With the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure_Free, you can build new skills with Oracle training courses and validate expertise with Oracle Certification. Explore available beginner to advanced learning solutions, and try it for free with Learning Explorer paths.
learn.oracle.com/ols/home/oracle-cloud-infrastructure_free/68670
For: customers
oracle.com/ae/java/weblogic/weblogic-for-oracle-cloud-infrastructure
Price stated: Free learn.oracle.com/ols/home/oracle-cloud-infrastructure_free/68670
Free plan or trial: try it for free with Learning Explorer paths learn.oracle.com/ols/home/oracle-cloud-infrastructure_free/68670
Certifications: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Architect AssociateOracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Architect ProfessionalOracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Cloud Operations AssociateOracle Cloud Infrastructure 2018 Certified Architect AssociateOracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified Architect Associate
Hosting: global cloud regions
Customers named: Charles Taylor InsureTechUSE Co., Ltd.Tokyo Electric Power Services Co., Ltd.
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations

What Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: learn.oracle.com/ols/home/oracle-cloud-infrastructure_free/68670, learn.oracle.com/ols/home/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-sls/102667, oracle.com/ae/java/weblogic/weblogic-for-oracle-cloud-infrastructure, oracle.com/apac/java/weblogic/weblogic-for-oracle-cloud-infrastructure, oracle.com/asean/java/weblogic/weblogic-for-oracle-cloud-infrastructure. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.