Small business=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 53 → 68 of 68
3 categories · RankedRed Hat OpenShift
105Judge labels
3First choices
27Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
6% in Managed Kubernetes for enterprise buyers
Rank 9 of 52 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 21% of its 33 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Red Hat OpenShift →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business76 of 76
0%12 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market9 of 52
0%33 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise4 of 52
6%56 labels
accepted 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 Red Hat OpenShift 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% | 9 of 52 | 21% | 33 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Enterprise storage systems | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 117 of 167 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Dell PowerStore at 16% | |
| Server virtualization platforms | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 34 of 78 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Proxmox VE at 42% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Red Hat OpenShift held within the floor in all three categories: 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 12 → 9 of 46
Enterprise▼−5Since September 2026: 12% → 8%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
8%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 4 of 47, unchanged
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 12 → 9 of 52 |
| Enterprise storage | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 117 of 167, unchanged |
| Server virtualization | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 34 of 78, unchanged |
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 Red Hat OpenShift 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 Red Hat OpenShift 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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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
Direct14 labels1
Paraphrase8 labelsNone
Comparative30 labelsNone
Budget-constrained7 labels2
Scale-constrained19 labelsNone
Negative27 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative105 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.
“best suited for regulated industries that need a complete opinionated platform with Red Hat's enterprise support” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Managed Kubernetes · comparative prompt · alternative
“Red Hat OpenShift’s managed services are a strong alternative when you want a fuller application platform” GPT-6 Luna · Managed Kubernetes · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best For: Large enterprises requiring hybrid cloud capabilities and strict compliance/security.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for: Large enterprises needing strong security, compliance, and hybrid/multi-cloud support.” Mistral Small · Managed Kubernetes · comparative 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.
“Be cautious with deeply integrated PaaS-like platforms such as VMware Tanzu / OpenShift Managed Services if you do not want PaaS-level abstraction” Muse Glimmer 30B · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · soft negative
“OpenShift is one of the most expensive Kubernetes platforms, charging $150-$500/core/year, and has a steep learning curve” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · soft negative
“Complex (Steep learning curve) ... Higher licensing costs, steeper learning curve, heavier infrastructure footprint” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · scale prompt · soft negative
“Trade-off: Higher licensing costs and complexity. Only choose this if you have specific regulatory requirements” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Red Hat OpenShift, over the 105 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Red Hat OpenShift was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Red Hat OpenShift, over the 105 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Red Hat OpenShift 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 Red Hat OpenShift. 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 98 of the 105 answers that named Red Hat OpenShift and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
portainer.io48
spot.rackspace.com40
qovery.com37
mirantis.com36
northflank.com35
it-ai-index.com32
linkedin.com32
dev.to30
blog.railway.com29
digitalocean.com27
346 of the 346 domain citations in answers naming Red Hat OpenShift came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
redhat.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Red Hat OpenShift takes 0% of first choices and Google Kubernetes Engine takes 43%.ShowHide
Search and answers
redhat.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Red Hat OpenShift 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
- 2,900 a month (“red hat openshift”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 89 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,347,338 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 147,391 · 16,512 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 105,781
- Paid Google search
- 5 searches its ads show for, about 20 clicks and $281 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 9 of 52 in managed kubernetes
Segment leader
43%
Google Kubernetes Engine
- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 105 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 98 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
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on redhat.com
13,605
subdomains included
Content
3,373
counted in the table below
Documentation
9
Product · Integration
1 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 1,934 | 1 | 2026-07-08 | API management, Object storage | |
| Blog | 1,265 | 10 | 2026-09-25 | API management, Object storage | |
| Conference or event | 113 | 0 | 2021-06-07 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 29 | 0 | 2020-09-28 | ||
| Case study | 13 | 0 | 2021-06-30 | ||
| Comparison | 8 | 0 | 2018-05-21 | ||
| Report or ebook | 6 | 0 | 2021-05-20 | ||
| Podcast or video | 4 | 0 | 2025-06-05 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated |
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Events in person
Upcoming
- November 17, 2026Ansible Automation Platform to defend, contain and comply with vulnerability lifecycle managementLondon, UK · hosts
Last twelve months
- October 27, 2026Unlocking OpenShift Virtualization: A technical deep dive into migrating VMsLondon, UK · hosted
- October 8, 2026Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 LondonLondon, UK · hosted
- June 30, 2026You're invited to the Red Hat and AWS Reception | AWS Summit DCCity Tap House · hosted
- May 11, 2026 to May 14, 20262026 年红帽全球峰会Atlanta · took part
- January 28, 2026Observability That Powers Smarter AI DeploymentsExpo hall · spoke
- January 26, 2026 to January 29, 2026Visit Red Hat at Dynatrace Perform 2026Las Vegas, United States · exhibited
As the event pages on redhat.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page redhat.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name API management (11); 0 name its categories the models place it in. 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 Red Hat OpenShift
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Red Hat OpenShift; a claim can dispute any of them.
OpenShift 8Ceph / Red Hat OpenShift 1Red Hat OpenShift (ROSA / ARO) 1
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The company
Red Hat OpenShift is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Red Hat OpenShift is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Build, modernize, and deploy apps at scale.
- Customers named
- MUFG 联合银行CA Technologies
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Red Hat OpenShift's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: redhat.com, redhat.com/zh-cn/technologies/management/ansible/pricing, redhat.com/zh-cn/trust, redhat.com/zh-cn/products/ai, redhat.com/zh-cn/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Red Hat OpenShift'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 Red Hat OpenShift, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Red Hat OpenShift by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Red Hat OpenShift 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 Red Hat OpenShift, 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.