Small businessnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 25 of 68, unchanged
1 category · RankedPlatform9 Managed Kubernetes
21Judge labels
0First choices
6Negative labels
9 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Managed Kubernetes for enterprise buyers
Rank 14 of 52 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 7 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business22 of 76
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market14 of 52
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise49 of 52
0%10 labels
criticized challenger
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 Platform9 Managed Kubernetes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed Kubernetes platforms | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 14 of 52 | 14% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Google Kubernetes Engine at 43% | =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, Platform9 Managed Kubernetes held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Managed Kubernetes · by segment
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 26 → 13 of 46
Enterprise▼−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 9 → 44 of 47
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed Kubernetes | 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 26 → 14 of 52 |
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 Platform9 Managed Kubernetes across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Platform9 Managed Kubernetes across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative8 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 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.
“A SaaS-managed Kubernetes and OpenStack platform that simplifies deployment, scaling, and operations.” Llama 4 Maverick · Managed Kubernetes · direct prompt · alternative
“Platform9 runs the control plane while your team retains infrastructure responsibility.” Perplexity Sonar · Managed Kubernetes · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for: Organizations wanting SaaS-managed Kubernetes across any infrastructure” Mistral Small · Managed Kubernetes · comparative prompt · alternative
“Rancher or Platform9 would be stronger choices” MiniMax M2.5 · Managed Kubernetes · direct 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.
“These are not fully managed services; they require your team to handle significant operational overhead.” Mistral Small · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Platform9 Managed Kubernetes was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Platform9 Managed Kubernetes was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Platform9 Managed Kubernetes. 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 21 of the 21 answers that named Platform9 Managed Kubernetes and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
northflank.com10
portainer.io10
qovery.com8
blog.railway.com7
spot.rackspace.com7
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com6
dev.to6
digitalocean.com6
linkedin.com6
mirantis.com6
Seventy-two of the seventy-two domain citations in answers naming Platform9 Managed Kubernetes came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
platform9.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Platform9 Managed Kubernetes takes 0% of first choices and Google Kubernetes Engine takes 43%.ShowHide
Search and answers
platform9.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Platform9 Managed Kubernetes takes 0% of first choices and Google Kubernetes Engine takes 43%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “managed kubernetes platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “managed kubernetes platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 10 a month (“platform9 managed kubernetes”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,716 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,111 · 48 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,547
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 14 of 52 in managed kubernetes
Segment leader
43%
Google Kubernetes Engine
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 21 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 21 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on platform9.com
7,227
subdomains included
Content
1,066
counted in the table below
Documentation
4,842
Product · Integration
1,252 · 2
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 495 | 4 | 2026-09-16 | NoSQL, Managed Kubernetes | |
| Blog | 387 | 5 | 2026-09-17 | CDN, Secrets | |
| Conference or event | 70 | 2 | 2026-08-12 | ||
| Comparison | 64 | 0 | 2026-03-26 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 22 | 2 | 2026-09-23 | CDN | |
| Case study | 10 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 8 | 0 | 2026-01-29 | ||
| Template or tool | 5 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 4 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23Veeam webinar webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-17Vmware migration without vddk blog
- 2026-09-16Platform9 named a visionary in 2026 gartner magic quadrant for server virtualization platforms news or press
- 2026-09-15Private cloud director august 2026 release blog
- 2026-09-15Platform9 extends enterprise private cloud lead with site recovery ai infrastructure upgrades in latest release news or press
- 2026-09-01Vddk no longer available blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- April 13, 2026 to April 14, 2026MSP Summit and Channel Partners Conference & ExpoThe Venetian, Las Vegas · exhibited
As the event pages on platform9.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page platform9.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Platform9 Managed Kubernetes
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Platform9 Managed Kubernetes; a claim can dispute any of them.
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The company
Platform9 Managed Kubernetes is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Platform9 Managed Kubernetes is its own company.
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Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Find solutions to common issues, troubleshooting steps, and best practices for Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK).
- Customers named
- ClouderaEBSCO Information ServicesJuniper NetworksSambanovaYextRackspace IT
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Platform9 Managed Kubernetes's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: platform9.com, platform9.com/kb, platform9.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Platform9 Managed Kubernetes by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Platform9 Managed Kubernetes 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 Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, 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.