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Index › Vendors › Rackspace Technology · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Rackspace Technology

9Judge labels

2First choices

1Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Rackspace Technology was named 6 times in Cloud hosting and 1 other category, where Amazon Web Services led with 29%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market7 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprise29 of 53

under the label threshold

In cloud hosting · 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 Rackspace Technology 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	4%	7 of 78	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 29%
Managed relational databases	Data platform	0%	23 of 73	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 32%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct6 labels2

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 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.

“For mid-market B2B companies, Rackspace Technology is frequently recommended because they offer managed services specifically designed for mid-market and enterprise customers” MiniMax M2.5 · Cloud hosting · direct prompt · first choice

“Choose Rackspace (or a managed partner) if you want the power of a top-tier cloud but need a dedicated team to handle the administration” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Cloud hosting · direct prompt · first choice

“Specifically mentioned as well-suited for mid-market companies with strong support and managed operations.” MiniMax M2.5 · Managed databases · direct prompt · alternative

“Recommended for mid-market companies needing controlled, managed database operations with strong support” Mistral Small · Managed databases · 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 Rackspace Technology, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Rackspace Technology was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon RDS5 of 94Not in the top three

Amazon Web Services4 of 91Not in the top three

DigitalOcean4 of 90Not in the top three

Google Cloud SQL4 of 90Not in the top three

Akamai Connected Cloud3 of 90Not in the top three

Google Cloud3 of 90Not in the top three

Microsoft Azure3 of 90Not in the top three

Vultr3 of 90Not in the top three

Amazon Aurora2 of 92Not in the top three

Azure SQL Database2 of 91Not 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 Rackspace Technology. 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 9 of the 9 answers that named Rackspace Technology and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aws.amazon.com5

zipdo.co5

worldmetrics.org4

geekflare.com3

gitnux.org3

hostingadvice.com3

techradar.com3

trustradius.com3

checkthat.ai2

findstack.com2

Thirty-three of the thirty-three domain citations in answers naming Rackspace Technology came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aws.amazon.com/rds5

zipdo.co/service/database-managed5

geekflare.com/hosting/best-cloud-hosting-platforms3

gitnux.org/service/managed-database3

techradar.com/news/best-cloud-hosting-providers3

trustradius.com/relational-databases3

worldmetrics.org/service/managed-database3

checkthat.ai/answers/what-is-the-best-database-management-software2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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