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1 category · Named, not ranked

RapidScale

2Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

2 of 12Models named it

1Category

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

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. RapidScale was named 2 times in Cloud hosting, 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-market21 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 RapidScale 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	0%	21 of 78	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 29%

Movement

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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 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.

“Mid-market organizations with complex compliance requirements ... who want end-to-end managed cloud services” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cloud hosting · direct prompt · alternative

“Broadest managed cloud offering (AWS, Azure, private cloud, VDI, DR)” Kimi K2 · Cloud hosting · 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 RapidScale, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and RapidScale was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Azure2 of 21Not in the top three

Amazon Web Services2 of 20Not in the top three

DigitalOcean2 of 20Not in the top three

Google Cloud2 of 20Not in the top three

11:11 Systems1 of 20Not in the top three

Akamai Connected Cloud1 of 20Not in the top three

CloudWave1 of 20Not in the top three

Rackspace1 of 20Not in the top three

Vultr1 of 20Not 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 RapidScale. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named RapidScale and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bestbusinesstechnology.com2

forbes.com2

geekflare.com2

kansoftware.com2

meridianitinc.com2

svitla.com2

andronest.com1

atlantic.net1

beyondintranet.com1

bullenweg.com1

Sixteen of the sixteen domain citations in answers naming RapidScale came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bestbusinesstechnology.com/best/best-cloud-infrastructure-providers2

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-cloud-hosting2

geekflare.com/hosting/best-cloud-hosting-platforms2

kansoftware.com/insights/blog/aws-vs-azure-vs-gcp-enterprise-cloud2

meridianitinc.com/blog/best-cloud-server-hosting-providers2

svitla.com/blog/cloud-platforms-comparison2

andronest.com/blog/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-cloud-the-detailed-comparison1

atlantic.net/cloud-platform/best-cloud-hosting-providers-small-businesses1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 rapidscale.net is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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