Every category where a model named OVHcloud 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	2%	11 of 78	47%	15	criticized challenger
Object storage	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	34 of 46	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Backblaze B2 at 46%
DDoS protection	Network and edge	0%	24 of 51	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 93%
Managed Kubernetes platforms	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	36 of 48	0%	1	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 OVHcloud 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 OVHcloud 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	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	1	1	1	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	2	2	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	1	0	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative18 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative33 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“OVHcloud stands out as the cheapest option for web hosting, with plans starting as low as $1.04/month” Kimi K2 · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · first choice

“Rent them through a host like OVHcloud or Hetzner to get free network-level scrubbing built-in.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDoS · budget prompt · alternative

“good if minimizing cost matters most and you can accept a more infrastructure-oriented setup” Perplexity Sonar · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · alternative

“If you need EU compliance, consider OVHcloud.” Mistral Small · Cloud hosting · paraphrase 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.

“criticized for various reasons such as poor customer service, slow performance, major outages, and privacy intrusion” Llama 4 Maverick · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative

“The 2021 Strasbourg data-center fire is the classic cautionary tale... some customers lost data permanently” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

“Users report disappointment with both performance and support” Mistral Small · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative

“Good pricing but high risk for email/hosting.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as OVHcloud, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and OVHcloud was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon Web Services19 of 336Not in the top three

DigitalOcean16 of 332Not in the top three

Hetzner15 of 332Not in the top three

Google Cloud14 of 333Not in the top three

Vultr13 of 330Not in the top three

Akamai Connected Cloud12 of 330Not in the top three

Azure11 of 331Not in the top three

Bluehost9 of 330Not in the top three

Microsoft Azure8 of 332Not in the top three

HostGator8 of 330Not 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 OVHcloud. 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 30 of the 33 answers that named OVHcloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

dev.to12

digitalocean.com12

reddit.com12

techradar.com8

hostingadvice.com7

pcmag.com7

theweather.agency7

g2.com6

webhostingtalk.com6

geekflare.com5

Eighty-two of the eighty-two domain citations in answers naming OVHcloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

pcmag.com/picks/the-best-cloud-web-hosting-services7

techradar.com/news/best-cloud-hosting-providers7

theweather.agency/blog/hosts-from-hell-the-worlds-worst-web-hosting-companies-and-why-they7

webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php6

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

geekflare.com/hosting/best-cloud-hosting-platforms5

hostingadvice.com/how-to/aws-azure-google-cloud-alternatives5

spot.rackspace.com/blog/kubernetes-managed-services5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as OVHcloud

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

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Claim this page

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 OVHcloud'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 OVHcloud, 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 ovhcloud.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.