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Index › Vendors › Vercel · September 2026 Edition

3 categories · Named, not ranked

Vercel

26Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

9 of 12Models named it

3Categories

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

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Vercel was named 4 times in Cloud hosting and 2 other categories, 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 business20 of 70

under the label threshold

Mid-market66 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprise9 of 53

under the label threshold

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 Vercel 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%	66 of 78	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 29%
Content delivery networks	Network and edge	0%	21 of 40	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 80%
LLM gateways and observability	Data platform	0%	57 of 63	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by LiteLLM at 38%

Movement

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

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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative8 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“High-Markup PaaS Platforms at Scale (Vercel, Render) ... Why to be cautious: Surprise "Bill Shock"” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · soft negative

“Vercel/Cloudflare: High recent incidents (e.g., 233/110 in 90-day data).” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Vercel, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vercel was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Netlify14 of 260Not in the top three

Render10 of 260Not in the top three

Amazon Web Services9 of 261Not in the top three

Cloudflare8 of 265Not in the top three

Google Cloud8 of 261Not in the top three

DigitalOcean7 of 260Not in the top three

Heroku7 of 260Not in the top three

Bunny.net6 of 261Not in the top three

GitHub Actions5 of 264Not in the top three

Microsoft Azure5 of 262Not 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 Vercel. 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 16 of the 26 answers that named Vercel and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.blazingcdn.com5

medium.com5

dev.to4

best4beginners.com3

devproblems.com3

reddit.com3

spot.rackspace.com3

yewsafe.com3

accio.com2

atlassian.com2

Thirty-three of the thirty-three domain citations in answers naming Vercel came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

best4beginners.com/best-cdn-providers-for-small-business-beginners3

devproblems.com/cheap-free-cdns3

spot.rackspace.com/blog/kubernetes-managed-services3

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/best-free-cdn-options-open-source-personal-sites2

blog.railway.com/p/best-managed-kubernetes-hosting-20262

broadbandnow.com/guides/CDN-Providers2

canadacreate.com/cloudflare-alternatives-20262

cloudinsight.cc/en/blog/cdn-pricing2

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 vercel.app is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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