Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 12 → 19 of 77
2 categories · Named, not rankedRender
26Judge labels
1First choices
1Negative labels
6 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
5 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Render was named 5 times in Cloud hosting and 1 other category, where Amazon Web Services led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business11 of 81
2%9 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market22 of 85
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
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 Render 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 22 of 85 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 32% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Managed Kubernetes platforms | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 32 of 52 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Google Kubernetes Engine at 43% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Render held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Cloud hosting · 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 39 → 19 of 75
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | 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 39 → 22 of 85 |
| 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 27 → 32 of 52 |
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 Render 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 Render 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct6 labels1
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative6 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained7 labelsNone
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.
“PaaS options like Heroku, Render, and Fly.io abstract away infrastructure concerns entirely” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · alternative
“Render or DigitalOcean will keep them focused on product development” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · direct prompt · alternative
“Render or Railway ... Best for: Early-stage startups and developers.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget 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 Render, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Render was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Render, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Render 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 Render. 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 22 of the 26 answers that named Render and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
northflank.com10
blog.railway.com8
medium.com7
spot.rackspace.com7
reddit.com6
youtube.com6
bluehost.com5
digitalocean.com5
elementor.com5
scalahosting.com4
Sixty-three of the sixty-three domain citations in answers naming Render came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
render.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Render takes 0% of first choices and Amazon Web Services takes 32%.ShowHide
Search and answers
render.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Render takes 0% of first choices and Amazon Web Services takes 32%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cloud hosting provider”
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not in the top ten
Position for “cloud hosting providers”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 90,500 a month (“render”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 20,866 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 84,662 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,166 · 323 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 8,925
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 22 of 85 in cloud hosting
Segment leader
32%
Amazon Web Services
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 26 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 22 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
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on render.com
901
subdomains included
Content
356
counted in the table below
Documentation
372
Product · Integration
1 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 211 | undated | DDoS, Cloud hosting | ||
| Template or tool | 97 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 26 | undated | |||
| Case study | 17 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 2 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 2 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page render.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. 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.
Follow Render
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Render is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Render is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The cloud for builders
- For
- builders
- Price stated
- free render.com
- Starting price
- 0 render.com
- Free plan or trial
- Start for free render.com
- Certifications
- HIPAASOC 2 Type 2ISO 27001GDPRSOC 2 Type IIHIPAA BAAGDPR-DPAData Processing Framework
- Hosting
- USEuropeAsia
- Customers named
- Base44WatershedOCMIFerndeskLocunityPlaneHamilton AIEvery
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What Render's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: render.com, render.com/pricing, trust.render.com, render.com/platform, render.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
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 Render'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 Render, 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 Render by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Render 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 Render, 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.