Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 → 9 of 77
1 category · RankedVultr
62Judge labels
5First choices
8Negative labels
13 / 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
5% in Cloud hosting for small business buyers
Rank 5 of 85 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 10% of its 29 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Vultr →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 81
5%27 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market5 of 85
4%29 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise42 of 44
0%6 labels
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 Vultr 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 | 4% | 5 of 85 | 10% | 29 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Vultr held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Cloud hosting · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 8 → 5 of 75
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 50 → 40 of 41
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | 2% | 5% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 8 → 5 of 85 |
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 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 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct9 labels2
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative17 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained12 labels2
Scale-constrained6 labels1
Negative14 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative62 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 6 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.
“DigitalOcean or Vultr at the $5–6/month tier offers the best balance of cost, reliability, and usability” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · first choice
“DigitalOcean or Vultr provide excellent value with simpler management” Kimi K2 · Cloud hosting · direct prompt · first choice
“Vultr simplifies cloud hosting at highly economical costs, with plans starting at as low as $2.5/month.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · alternative
“DigitalOcean or Vultr ... Best for: Startups and small developer teams wanting predictability.” 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.
“such as DigitalOcean or Vultr ... trade simplicity and lower cost for fewer enterprise features” Perplexity Sonar · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · soft negative
“Generally has worse uptime than DigitalOcean according to multiple comparisons” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · soft negative
“these are generally better suited to: Smaller teams (fewer managed services)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cloud hosting · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Vultr, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vultr was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Vultr, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vultr 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. 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 55 of the 62 answers that named Vultr and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
atlantic.net31
digitalocean.com28
hostingadvice.com28
bluehost.com19
techradar.com19
hostinger.com16
hostscore.net16
cybernews.com14
forbes.com14
geekflare.com13
198 of the 198 domain citations in answers naming Vultr 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 takes 4% of first choices and Amazon Web Services takes 32%.ShowHide
Search and answers
vultr.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Vultr takes 4% 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”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 22,200 a month (“vultr”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 302 a month
- 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
4%
rank 5 of 85 in cloud hosting
Segment leader
32%
Amazon Web Services
- First choices
- 5 across its categories
- Named in
- 62 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 55 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 vultr.com
9,999
subdomains included
Content
752
counted in the table below
Documentation
9,024
Product · Integration
3 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 584 | 1 | 2026-07-09 | CDN, Object storage | |
| Case study | 56 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 46 | 9 | 2026-09-09 | ||
| Report or ebook | 23 | 0 | 2026-06-09 | ||
| Conference or event | 19 | 2 | 2026-07-17 | ||
| Template or tool | 11 | 0 | 2025-05-22 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 8 | 0 | 2025-09-18 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 0 | 2025-01-22 | ||
| News or press | 2 | 0 | 2023-03-21 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
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Events in person
Last twelve months
- September 29, 2026 to October 1, 2026The AI Conference 2026San Francisco · exhibited
- July 8, 2026 to July 9, 2026RAISE Summit 2026Paris, France · exhibited
- July 7, 2026Global DevOps Summit & Awards Series 2026Bangalore, India · exhibited
As the event pages on vultr.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page vultr.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.
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The company
Vultr is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Vultr is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The AI-first Global Cloud Platform
- For
- business
- Price stated
- Starting at $0.06/hour; Starting at $0.848/GPU/hr; Starting at $0.471/GPU/hr; Starting at $1.290/GPU/hr; Starting at $1.850/GPU/hr; Starting at $2.000/GPU/hr; Starting at $2.290/GPU/hour; Starting at $2.300/GPU/hr; Starting at $2.500/month; Starting at $2.990/GPU/hr; Starting at $3.500/GPU/hour; Starting at $28.00/month; Starting at $120.00/month vultr.com
- Starting price
- 2.50 vultr.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2+ (HIPAA)PCI (Merchant)CSA Star Level 1ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018ISO/IEC 27001:2022ISO/IEC 27017:2015ISO/IEC 27018:2019
- Hosting
- Amsterdam NLAtlanta, GA USBangalore INChicago, IL USDallas, TX USDelhi NCR INFrankfurt DEHonolulu, HI US
- Customers named
- AthosLiquidMetalMedidex
- Not stated on the pages read
- Free plan or trial, integrations
What Vultr's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: vultr.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Vultr'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 Vultr, 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 Vultr by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Vultr 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, 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.