Every category where a model named Portainer 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 Kubernetes platforms	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	16 of 48	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Google Kubernetes Engine at 39%
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	55 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%

Movement

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

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

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 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.

“provides a powerful self‑hosted dashboard for full‑stack curation and multi‑cluster governance” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed Kubernetes · comparative prompt · alternative

“A Kubernetes managed service provider that offers a range of features and pricing plans.” Llama 4 Maverick · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Portainer, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Portainer was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Kubernetes Engine13 of 218Not in the top three

Amazon EKS12 of 212Not in the top three

Azure Kubernetes Service10 of 212Not in the top three

Red Hat OpenShift9 of 211Not in the top three

Rancher9 of 210Not in the top three

Falco6 of 210Not in the top three

Aqua Security5 of 211Not in the top three

Trivy5 of 211Not in the top three

VMware Tanzu5 of 210Not in the top three

Kubescape4 of 211Not 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 Portainer. 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 20 of the 21 answers that named Portainer and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

portainer.ioYour site20

medium.com14

spot.rackspace.com14

northflank.com12

blog.railway.com10

dev.to8

mirantis.com7

cyberpress.org5

lucaberton.com5

reddit.com5

Eighty of the 100 domain citations in answers naming Portainer came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

spot.rackspace.com/blog/kubernetes-managed-services14

portainer.io/blog/enterprise-kubernetes-management-platform11

blog.railway.com/p/best-managed-kubernetes-hosting-202610

northflank.com/blog/best-managed-kubernetes-platforms9

portainer.io/blog/kubernetes-managed-services9

medium.com/@BuildShift/15-managed-kubernetes-platforms-ranked-for-developers-2025-9c82acad8

medium.com/@devlinktips/15-managed-kubernetes-platforms-ranked-for-developers-2025-9c82aca7

northflank.com/blog/top-managed-kubernetes-hosting-platforms7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Portainer

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

Portainer Enterprise 1

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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 Portainer'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 Portainer, 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 portainer.io 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.