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Index Vendors › Red Hat OpenShift · September 2026 Edition
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Red Hat OpenShift

81Judge labels
6First choices
20Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
12% in Managed Kubernetes for enterprise buyers
Rank 12 of 48 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 30% of its 27 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Managed Kubernetes platformsCloud and infrastructure0%12 of 4830%27criticized challenger
Container and Kubernetes securityCloud and infrastructure0%56 of 780%1under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Red Hat OpenShift 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 Red Hat OpenShift across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini02204
Gemini 3.5 Flash01113
Perplexity Sonar01012
Grok 4.1 Fast00022
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash01113
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash02013
Kimi K200112
GLM 4.7 FlashX11013
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Direct11 labels2
Paraphrase7 labels2
Comparative25 labelsNone
Budget-constrained5 labels2
Scale-constrained12 labelsNone
Negative21 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative81 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 9 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.

“Strong enterprise SLAs, compliance support, and hybrid deployment capabilities.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · first choice
“Best for regulated enterprises that want one integrated, security-first platform from a single vendor \u2014 at the cost of a steeper learning curve” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · comparative prompt · alternative
“ideal for enterprises needing an opinionated, integrated platform with strong governance, CI/CD, and compliance” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed Kubernetes · comparative prompt · alternative
“favored for enterprise environments needing strong governance, security, and multi-cloud portability” 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.

“Avoid if you want standard, highly portable Kubernetes API patterns or if you are on a tight budget.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: OpenShift (unless enterprise compliance mandates it)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · hard negative
“Verdict: Consider carefully—good for enterprises needing full security/AI stack, but overkill for many use cases.” Kimi K2 · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · soft negative
“Be cautious with OpenShift/Tanzu if you want vanilla Kubernetes with minimal vendor-specific layers.” Perplexity Sonar · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Red Hat OpenShift, over the 80 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.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Google Kubernetes Engine76 of 8033Not in the top three
Amazon EKS76 of 8016Not in the top three
Azure Kubernetes Service70 of 809Not in the top three
Rancher48 of 801Not in the top three
DigitalOcean Kubernetes30 of 805Not in the top three
VMware Tanzu28 of 800Not in the top three
Linode Kubernetes Engine19 of 802Not in the top three
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine15 of 800Not in the top three
Platform912 of 801Not in the top three
Civo10 of 801Not 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 Red Hat OpenShift. 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 62 of the 80 answers that named Red Hat OpenShift and are not a share of its labels.

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 5Red Hat ACS / OpenShift 1Red Hat OpenShift (ROSA / ARO) 1Red Hat OpenShift (managed offerings like ROSA) 1Red Hat OpenShift Managed Services 1
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