| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual desktops | IT operations and endpoint | 9% | 5 of 81 | 0% | 23 | accepted challenger |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Best overall for most limited‑budget companies: a managed cloud‑VDI (DaaS) service at $30‑$45 per user/month (e.g., V2 Cloud, XTIUM DaaS, or Kasm Workspaces)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Virtual desktops · budget prompt · first choice
“The best virtual desktop platform for a company with a limited budget is V2 Cloud” Llama 4 Maverick · Virtual desktops · budget prompt · first choice
“V2 Cloud is often cited as the top choice for small businesses on a tight budget” Mistral Small · Virtual desktops · budget prompt · first choice
“Limited IT, want turnkey: V2 Cloud or Apps4Rent.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Virtual desktops · paraphrase prompt · first choice
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.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 73 of the 73 answers that named V2 Cloud and are not a share of its labels.
335 of the 366 domain citations in answers naming V2 Cloud came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 313 | 33 | 2026-10-02 | Virtual desktops, Cloud hosting | |
| Glossary or explainer | 132 | 4 | 2026-08-27 | Cloud hosting, MFA | |
| Comparison | 44 | 3 | 2026-08-05 | ||
| Case study | 23 | 0 | 2026-04-22 | ||
| Report or ebook | 8 | 6 | 2026-10-02 | ||
| News or press | 3 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 2 | 0 | 2026-06-05 |
Every page v2cloud.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 October 5, 2026.
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.
What V2 Cloud's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: v2cloud.com, v2cloud.com/pricing, v2cloud.com/add-ons/compliance, v2cloud.com/platform, v2cloud.com/resources/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 V2 Cloud'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 V2 Cloud, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for V2 Cloud by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows: