3 categories · RankedVultr
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | Cloud and infrastructure | 2% | 8 of 78 | 11% | 27 | accepted challenger |
| Managed relational databases | Data platform | 2% | 12 of 73 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 32% |
| Object storage | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 45 of 46 | 100% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Backblaze B2 at 46% |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“the best value is typically DigitalOcean, Linode, or Vultr Managed Databases (~$15/mo)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice
“Absolute cheapest scalable option: `Vultr` (`$2.50–$4/mo`) – best bang-per-dollar” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · first choice
“Offers highly customizable virtual servers and robust bare-metal options across more than 30 global regions.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · comparative prompt · alternative
“Linode / Vultr Managed Databases | $15 / mo ... choose based on preferred compute provider” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed databases · 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.
“cap individual object sizes at 5 GB ... these are not suitable” Mistral Small · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative
“These are non-starters for many modern workloads” MiniMax M2.5 · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative
“they're usually less ideal for a company that expects significant scaling, compliance needs, or complex enterprise requirements” GPT-5.4 mini · Cloud hosting · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“don't publish verifiable durability data — not necessarily bad, but you can't verify their claims” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 61 of the 77 answers that named Vultr and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
181 of the 181 domain citations in answers naming Vultr came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Vultr
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