Every category where a model named PlanetScale 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 relational databases	Data platform	2%	13 of 73	31%	13	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for PlanetScale 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 PlanetScale 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	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	1	1	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	2	0	3
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	1	1
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

Direct8 labels1

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative11 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained10 labelsNone

Scale-constrained9 labelsNone

Negative14 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative55 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“If your developers are bogged down by database migrations, schema management, and staging environments: Choose PlanetScale.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · direct prompt · first choice

“PlanetScale (MySQL), Aiven, Neon, Supabase—praised for predictability, multi-cloud, lower lock-in” Grok 4.1 Fast · Managed databases · negative prompt · alternative

“Offers a free tier suitable for development and small production workloads” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Managed databases · budget prompt · alternative

“A serverless MySQL database built on Vitess... offers git-like branching” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · 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.

“Best avoided as a primary database for anything you care about unless you're a large enterprise with contract protections.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid PlanetScale if you are on a strict budget; they retired their free tier” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · budget prompt · hard negative

“Not a full RDBMS; limited transactional features” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed databases · direct prompt · soft negative

“PlanetScale (test first)” Kimi K2 · Managed databases · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as PlanetScale, over the 55 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PlanetScale was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Neon43 of 5512Not in the top three

Google Cloud SQL42 of 552Not in the top three

Amazon RDS41 of 5511Not in the top three

Supabase39 of 5512Not in the top three

Azure SQL Database34 of 551Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Managed Databases23 of 559Not in the top three

Amazon Aurora20 of 553Not in the top three

CockroachDB11 of 550Not in the top three

Render Postgres10 of 550Not in the top three

Linode Managed Databases7 of 551Not 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 PlanetScale. 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 40 of the 55 answers that named PlanetScale and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com21

toolradar.com20

tech-insider.org19

northflank.com17

cloudexpat.com16

digitalocean.com16

estuary.dev16

aws.amazon.com14

gitnux.org10

auxiliar.ai9

158 of the 158 domain citations in answers naming PlanetScale came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

toolradar.com/best/managed-databases/for/small-businesses18

tech-insider.org/aws-rds-vs-azure-database-vs-google-cloud-sql-202617

cloudexpat.com/compare/rds-vs-azure-sql-vs-cloud-sql16

estuary.dev/blog/relational-databases-for-small-businesses16

g2.com/categories/database-as-a-service-dbaas/small-business15

aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing9

northflank.com/blog/top-managed-database-services9

auxiliar.ai/database8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as PlanetScale

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

PlanetScale (MySQL) 1

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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 planetscale.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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