# Rafay: how AI models rank it, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 1 categories by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/rafay/

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed Kubernetes platforms | 0% | 40 | 33% | 3 |

## And against it

- "Be cautious with self-managed platforms—ensure you understand the operational responsibilities before committing." (Mistral Small, Managed Kubernetes)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise.

- Managed Kubernetes platforms: 0% to 0%, ±0. New · not ranked in September 2026 · rank 40 of 52.

## In its own words

What Rafay's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: AI Infrastructure Orchestration Platform (https://rafay.co/)
- For: Enterprises, Service Providers, neoclouds, sovereign AI clouds, Telcos, cloud providers (https://rafay.co/)
- Price stated: The Rafay Platform is priced based on a platform fee plus a per GPU/CPU or per Node unit fee. (https://rafay.co/platform/pricing)
- Certifications: NVIDIA-Certified Hypervisors Status
- Customers named: TELUS, Guardant Health, MoneyGram, Minim, Fortune 50 consulting firm, Accenture, Regeneron, Alation

## What it publishes

Every page rafay.co exposes, read 2026-09-29: 3051 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 26 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2025-09-15
- case study: 7 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- webinar or virtual event: 32 pages, 2 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-24
- conference or event: 69 pages, 6 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-24
- report or ebook: 60 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-24
- comparison: 15 pages, 7 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-24
- template or tool: 12 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- glossary or explainer: 331 pages, 9 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-24
- podcast or video: 13 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-24
- news or press: 61 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- Recent: 2026-09-24 conference or event: Compute is the new revenue what i heard at the ai infra summit https://rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/compute-is-the-new-revenue-what-i-heard-at-the-ai-infra-summit
- Recent: 2026-09-24 comparison: Drift prevention vs detection does a polling approach make sense at scale https://rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/drift-prevention-vs-detection-does-a-polling-approach-make-sense-at-scale
- Recent: 2026-09-24 webinar or virtual event: Introducing brave oss provision on demand bare metal infrastructure for dev and test environments https://rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/introducing-brave-oss-provision-on-demand-bare-metal-infrastructure-for-dev-and-test-environments
- Recent: 2026-09-24 report or ebook: Introduction to jupyter notebooks https://rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/introduction-to-jupyter-notebooks
- Recent: 2026-09-24 podcast or video: Latest shiny podcast building applications at the infrastructure edge https://rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/latest-shiny-podcast-building-applications-at-the-infrastructure-edge
- Recent: 2026-09-24 conference or event: Rafay ai summit day 1 our biggest takeaways on building profitable ai businesses https://rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/rafay-ai-summit-day-1-our-biggest-takeaways-on-building-profitable-ai-businesses

## Record

- Method: https://it-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://it-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, it-ai-index.com.