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 11 → 9 of 68
Vultr · 1 category · RankedVultr Kubernetes Engine
23Judge labels
0First choices
6Negative labels
10 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Managed Kubernetes for small business buyers
Rank 13 of 52 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 9 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business9 of 76
0%11 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market13 of 52
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise50 of 52
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
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 Vultr Kubernetes Engine 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% | 13 of 52 | 22% | 9 | 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, Vultr Kubernetes Engine held within the floor in its one category: 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 11 → 14 of 46
Enterprise=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 51 → 45 of 47
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 11 → 13 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 Vultr Kubernetes Engine 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 Vultr Kubernetes Engine 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained11 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative7 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative23 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.
“Vultr is a global cloud provider that offers competitive managed Kubernetes services... best price-to-quality ratio” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed Kubernetes · budget prompt · alternative
“Offers the lowest entry point for managed Kubernetes with a free control plane and nodes starting at $10/month” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Managed Kubernetes · budget prompt · alternative
“Best price-to-resources ratio (more RAM/CPU per dollar)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · budget prompt · alternative
“Most regions (30+); good for global/edge; GPU support.” Grok 4.20 · Managed Kubernetes · 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.
“May be economical but often lack enterprise-grade features, HA guarantees, or mature tooling ecosystems” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · soft negative
“these warrant caution for certain use cases” Kimi K2 · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Vultr Kubernetes Engine, over the 23 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vultr Kubernetes Engine was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Vultr Kubernetes Engine, over the 23 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vultr Kubernetes Engine 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 Vultr Kubernetes Engine. 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 23 answers that named Vultr Kubernetes Engine and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
digitalocean.com18
medium.com15
it-ai-index.com12
linkedin.com12
blog.railway.com10
spot.rackspace.com9
dev.to8
gotechug.com7
aws.amazon.com6
controlplane.com6
103 of the 103 domain citations in answers naming Vultr Kubernetes Engine came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
vultr.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Vultr Kubernetes Engine takes 0% of first choices and Google Kubernetes Engine takes 43%.ShowHide
Search and answers
vultr.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Vultr Kubernetes Engine 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
- 10 a month (“vultr kubernetes engine”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Its company's site
- vultr.com shared with Vultr's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 81,453 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 37,504 · 279 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 17,999
- 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 13 of 52 in managed kubernetes
Segment leader
43%
Google Kubernetes Engine
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 23 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.
Names read as Vultr Kubernetes Engine
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Vultr Kubernetes Engine; a claim can dispute any of them.
Vultr 4Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE) 3Vultr VKE 2
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The company
Vultr is the company behind Vultr Kubernetes Engine.ShowHide
The company
Vultr is the company behind Vultr Kubernetes Engine.
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Company records- Also from Vultr
- Vultr Kubernetes, Vultr Managed Databases, Vultr Object Storage
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Vultr Kubernetes Engine by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Vultr Kubernetes Engine 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 Vultr Kubernetes Engine, 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.