Managed Kubernetes platforms for enterprise buyers
Asked as “managed Kubernetes platform”, and as “hosted Kubernetes service”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 47 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
57%
Clear leader
57Google Kubernetes Engine15Red Hat OpenShift09Azure Kubernetes Service19others
57% of first choices, clear leader.
Since October 2026▲+26Since October 2026: 31% → 57%, +26 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.Google Kubernetes Engine held the lead, +26 points on 31%, past the floor.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small business
DigitalOcean Kubernetes62%Clear leader▲+7Since October 2026: 55% → 62%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →Mid-market
Google Kubernetes Engine52%Clear leader▲+9Since October 2026: 43% → 52%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →EnterpriseGoogle Kubernetes Engine57%Clear leader▲+26Since October 2026: 31% → 57%, +26 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.This page
DigitalOcean Kubernetes62%Clear leader▲+7Since October 2026: 55% → 62%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →Mid-marketGoogle Kubernetes Engine52%Clear leader▲+9Since October 2026: 43% → 52%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →EnterpriseGoogle Kubernetes Engine57%Clear leader▲+26Since October 2026: 31% → 57%, +26 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.This pageThe standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01Google Kubernetes Engine Lab in the set57%14%76endorsed leader▲+26Since October 2026: 31% → 57%, +26 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.31% → 57%
Google Kubernetes Engine Lab in the set57%14%76endorsed leader▲+26Since October 2026: 31% → 57%, +26 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.31% → 57%02
Red Hat OpenShift15%15%48accepted challenger▲+9Since October 2026: 6% → 15%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.6% → 15%
Red Hat OpenShift15%15%48accepted challenger▲+9Since October 2026: 6% → 15%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.6% → 15%03
Azure Kubernetes Service9%13%70accepted challenger▼−10Since October 2026: 19% → 9%, −10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.19% → 9%
Azure Kubernetes Service9%13%70accepted challenger▼−10Since October 2026: 19% → 9%, −10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.19% → 9%04
Amazon EKS6%24%76accepted challenger▼−19Since October 2026: 25% → 6%, −19 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.25% → 6%
Amazon EKS6%24%76accepted challenger▼−19Since October 2026: 25% → 6%, −19 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.25% → 6%05
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine2%22%18accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine2%22%18accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%06
VMware Tanzu2%30%23criticized challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%
VMware Tanzu2%30%23criticized challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%Show the two products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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Rancher0%11%36accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Rancher0%11%36accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%08
Platform9 Managed Kubernetes0%0%10accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Platform9 Managed Kubernetes0%0%10accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%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 can't be told apart from repeat variation, and both are shown. Each index measures its own floor from its own repeat, over its own categories, so the floor differs from one index to the next. Both editions asked the same fourteen models. How the floor is measured
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Google Kubernetes Engine is made by Google, whose model Gemini 3.5 Flash is in the set. On the four share prompts that model made it the first choice two times of 4; the other thirteen models twenty-five times of 52. Lab treatment is defined on the method page; the row is marked, not excluded.
Head to head
Google Kubernetes Engine vs DigitalOcean KubernetesGoogle Kubernetes Engine vs Azure Kubernetes ServiceGoogle Kubernetes Engine vs Amazon EKS
Head-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.All fifteen head-to-head pages: the top six products, each against each
Google Kubernetes Engine vs Linode Kubernetes EngineGoogle Kubernetes Engine vs Civo KubernetesDigitalOcean Kubernetes vs Azure Kubernetes ServiceDigitalOcean Kubernetes vs Amazon EKSDigitalOcean Kubernetes vs Linode Kubernetes EngineDigitalOcean Kubernetes vs Civo KubernetesAzure Kubernetes Service vs Amazon EKSAzure Kubernetes Service vs Linode Kubernetes EngineAzure Kubernetes Service vs Civo KubernetesAmazon EKS vs Linode Kubernetes EngineAmazon EKS vs Civo KubernetesLinode Kubernetes Engine vs Civo Kubernetes
One product takes 57% of first choices here, so the chart would put seven markers in one corner and one at the far edge. The two measurements it plots are columns in the standing above: share, and the negative label rate. One product carries a negative rate above 25% in this category.
What they warned about
Ten of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Grok 4.20, Llama 4 Maverick and GLM 4.7 FlashX changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Amazon EKS24%
18 of 76 labels negative · 11 of 14 models
“Primary Platforms to Be Cautious About ... Amazon EKS ... Usage-based models (common in standard EKS/GKE) can lead to unpredictable bills at enterprise scale” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
Google Kubernetes Engine14%
11 of 76 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“Avoid for this use case: GKE Autopilot, EKS Auto Mode, and OpenShift” Kimi K2, budget prompt
Azure Kubernetes Service13%
9 of 70 labels negative · 8 of 14 models
“AKS has had AKS-specific vulnerabilities (e.g., CVE-2023-29332, a privilege escalation issue) and legacy Azure AD integration paths” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
Red Hat OpenShift15%
7 of 48 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“Heavy vendor lock-in: Tightly coupled to Red Hat's entire ecosystem” Kimi K2, negative prompt
What they cite
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted.
Sites the answers cite
73 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 851 links across 225 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 54 of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category; the method page measures whether that reading tilts an answer.
vendor site · Mirantis29 answers · 46 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Northflank24 answers · 32 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Control Plane24 answers · 25 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Rafay23 answers · 23 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Portainer22 answers · 28 citations · 10 models
22 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Platform920 answers · 29 citations · 10 models
publisher (Gane)20 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Qovery19 answers · 27 citations · 9 models
18 answers · 24 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Microsoft17 answers · 22 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Rackspace17 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
23 answers · 11 models
22 answers · 10 models
22 answers · 11 models
19 answers · 9 models
16 answers · 7 models
14 answers · 10 models
14 answers · 7 models
13 answers · 7 models
10 answers · 5 models
10 answers · 5 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best managed kubernetes platform”, “managed kubernetes platform”, “managed kubernetes platforms”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Kubernetes Engine cloud.google.com Google Kubernetes Engine 57%, Google Kubernetes Engine Enterprise 0% | 57% | 191 | 2,400 | 15 | 7,405,347 | 4 | ||
| Red Hat OpenShift redhat.com | 15% | 89 | 2,900 | 89 | 1,347,338 | $281 | 117 | |
| Azure azure.microsoft.com Azure Kubernetes Service 9%, Microsoft Azure 2% | 11% | 165 | 301,000 | 47,904 | 1,848,766 | $6,123 | ||
| Amazon parent site Amazon EKS 6% | 6% | 186 | 151,000,000 | 1,380,939 | ||||
| Mirantis Kubernetes Engine mirantis.com | 2% | 37 | 110 | 1 | 44,795 | 6 | 2 | |
| VMware parent site VMware Tanzu 2% | 2% | 43 | 74,000 | 17,842 | ||||
| Control Plane controlplane.com | 2% | 22 | ||||||
| Oracle parent site Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes 2% | 2% | 15 | 450,000 | 66,611 | ||||
| Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with Anthos | 2% | |||||||
| Rancher rancher.com Rancher 0%, Rancher Prime 0% | 0% | 69 | 12,100 | 30,642 | 11,297 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 19 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (mirantis.com, portainer.io, spot.rackspace.com). The first result for “best managed kubernetes platform” is cycle.io.
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.ShowHide
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best managed Kubernetes platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which hosted Kubernetes service would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade managed Kubernetes platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best managed Kubernetes platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a managed Kubernetes platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which managed Kubernetes platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceAmazon EKSChangedagainst: DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Linode Kubernetes Engineno first choiceAzure Kubernetes Serviceagainst: Amazon EKSno first choiceagainst: Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Red Hat OpenShift
Two alternatives
Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes EngineTwo alternatives
Google Kubernetes Engine, PortainerGPT-5.4 miniGoogle Kubernetes EngineGoogle Kubernetes EngineHeldAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes EngineAzure Kubernetes Serviceagainst: Amazon EKSno first choiceagainst: Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu
Two alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes ServiceTwo alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes ServiceThree alternatives
Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware TanzuThree alternatives
Google Kubernetes Engine, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShiftGemini 3.5 FlashGoogle Kubernetes EngineGoogle Kubernetes EngineHeldGoogle Kubernetes EngineRed Hat OpenShiftno first choiceagainst: Civo Kubernetes, DigitalOcean Kubernetes [DOKS], IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service [IKS], Linode Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis MKE, Oracle Container Engine [OKE], Portainer, SUSE Rancher Server, Scaleway Kapsule, Spectro Cloud, VMware PKS, Vultr Kubernetes Engine
Four alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShiftTwo alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes ServiceFive alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu PlatformThree alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) GKE EnterprisePerplexity SonarGoogle Kubernetes EngineGoogle Kubernetes EngineHeldno first choiceRed Hat OpenShiftno first choiceagainst: Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu
Four alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShiftThree alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, IBM Cloud Kubernetes ServiceNine alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware TanzuThree alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes EngineGrok 4.20Google Kubernetes EngineAmazon EKSChangedagainst: Red Hat OpenShiftno first choiceRed Hat OpenShiftagainst: Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Rancher, VMware TanzuGoogle Kubernetes Engineagainst: Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine
Six alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware TanzuTwo alternatives
Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes EngineOne alternative
Oracle Container Engine for KubernetesSeven alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine Enterprise, Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, Rafay, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShiftMistral SmallGoogle Kubernetes EngineGoogle Kubernetes EngineHeldRed Hat OpenShiftGoogle Kubernetes Engine, Red Hat OpenShiftagainst: Amazon EKS, Mirantis Kubernetes Engineno first choiceagainst: Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine
Five alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShiftTwo alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes ServiceThree alternatives
Google Kubernetes Engine Enterprise, Rancher, VMware TanzuDeepSeek V4 FlashGoogle Kubernetes EngineGoogle Kubernetes EngineHeldno first choiceAzure Kubernetes Serviceagainst: Amazon EKSGoogle Kubernetes Engineagainst: Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Serviceagainst: Civo Kubernetes, DOKS, Hetzner, Kamatera, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Nutanix Karbon, RKE2, Rancher, UpCloud Managed Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu
Three alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShiftTwo alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes ServiceSix alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware TanzuOne alternative
Google Kubernetes EngineLlama 4 MaverickGoogle Kubernetes Engineno first choiceChangedno first choiceOracle Container Engine for Kubernetesno first choiceagainst: Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine, Red Hat OpenShift
Three alternatives
Amazon EKS, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, NorthflankOne alternative
ServerspaceQwen 3.7 FlashGoogle Kubernetes EngineGoogle Kubernetes EngineHeldagainst: DigitalOcean Kubernetesno first choiceAmazon EKS, Microsoft Azureagainst: Google Kubernetes Engineno first choiceagainst: DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Hetzner, Linode Kubernetes Engine, Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) "Lite" variants, Platform One / SkunkWorks, Rancher Control Plane, VMware Pivotal Container Service
Three alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShiftTwo alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes ServiceSix alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware TanzuOne alternative
Red Hat OpenShiftKimi K2Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat OpenShiftHeldno first choiceagainst: VMware TanzuAzure Kubernetes Serviceagainst: EKS Auto Mode, Google Kubernetes Engine, Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzuagainst: Alibaba Cloud ACK, Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, Tencent TKE, VMware Tanzu
Three alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes EngineThree alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes EngineFive alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShiftTwo alternatives
Google Kubernetes Engine, Oracle Container Engine for KubernetesFour alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, RancherGLM 4.7 FlashXGoogle Kubernetes EngineGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with AnthosChangedno first choiceGoogle Kubernetes Engineagainst: Amazon EKSno first choiceagainst: Alibaba Cloud ACK, Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Civo Kubernetes, DigitalOcean Kubernetes Engine, Fly.io, Google Kubernetes Engine, Hetzner, OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes, Railway, Render, VMware Tanzu
Four alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShiftTwo alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes ServiceTen alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis OpenShift, Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, Rafay Systems, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, Spectro Cloud, VMware TanzuOne alternative
Azure Kubernetes ServiceMiniMax M2.5Google Kubernetes EngineGoogle Kubernetes EngineHeldAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes EngineGoogle Kubernetes Engineno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShiftTwo alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes ServiceThree alternatives
Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware TanzuTwo alternatives
Amazon EKS, Red Hat OpenShiftGPT-6 LunaGoogle Kubernetes EngineGoogle Kubernetes EngineHeldGoogle Kubernetes EngineGoogle Kubernetes Engineagainst: Amazon EKSno first choiceagainst: AKS Free tier, Amazon EKS, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, OKE Basic clusters
Three alternatives
AKS Automatic, Amazon EKS, Managed OpenShiftTwo alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes ServiceFour alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Managed Red Hat OpenShift, Oracle Container Engine for KubernetesTwo alternatives
Autopilot, Azure Kubernetes ServiceMuse Glimmer 30BGoogle Kubernetes EngineGoogle Kubernetes EngineHeldAmazon EKSagainst: Broadcom’s VMware Tanzu Platform, Google Kubernetes Engine EnterpriseControl Plane, Mirantis Kubernetes Engineagainst: Karpenterno first choiceagainst: Alibaba Container Service for Kubernetes ACK, Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Tanzu from VMware
Six alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine Enterprise, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware TanzuTwo alternatives
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes ServiceThree alternatives
Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Red Hat OpenShiftThree alternatives
Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine, Tencent CloudBold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 11:16 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 12:01 | yes | 3 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 14:31 | yes | 8 | 23 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 09:43 | yes | 10 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:34 | yes | 5 | 12 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 11:46 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 16:51 | yes | 20 | 32 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 17:46 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 14:28 | yes | 5 | 15 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 11:41 | yes | 15 | 35 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 09:07 | yes | 21 | 202 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:08 | yes | 19 | 44 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 18:00 | yes | 4 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 09:21 | yes | 14 | 17 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 18:29 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 13:02 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 09:37 | no | 0 | 14 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 10:03 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 13:59 | yes | 5 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 14:10 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 15:58 | yes | 25 | 29 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 17:41 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 12:12 | no | 0 | 29 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 17:33 | yes | 10 | 36 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 17:24 | yes | 10 | 14 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 09:41 | yes | 5 | 25 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 19:23 | yes | 4 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 14:27 | yes | 15 | 21 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 11:00 | yes | 14 | 10 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 18:29 | yes | 7 | 9 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 10:38 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 11:50 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:46 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 08:58 | yes | 8 | 10 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 18:51 | yes | 24 | 45 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 12:29 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 09:57 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 09:05 | yes | 13 | 29 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 11:18 | yes | 10 | 142 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:39 | yes | 10 | 30 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 09:53 | yes | 6 | 21 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 13:05 | yes | 14 | 32 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 11:24 | yes | 18 | 10 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 12:46 | yes | 5 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 09:43 | no | 0 | 15 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 14:59 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:00 | yes | 15 | 15 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 08:46 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 10:29 | yes | 22 | 26 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 12:01 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 10:59 | yes | 15 | 161 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 11:31 | yes | 20 | 85 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 18:24 | yes | 15 | 32 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 19:42 | yes | 15 | 93 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 09:47 | yes | 5 | 22 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 11:30 | yes | 17 | 36 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 10:36 | yes | 29 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 13:05 | yes | 6 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 09:49 | no | 0 | 21 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 14:19 | yes | 10 | 10 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 13:46 | yes | 9 | 19 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 15:14 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 12:47 | yes | 17 | 44 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 18:01 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 15:30 | no | 0 | 36 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 11:28 | yes | 10 | 35 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 11:30 | yes | 24 | 64 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:18 | no | 0 | 39 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 10:29 | yes | 3 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 17:14 | yes | 14 | 26 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 13:26 | yes | 19 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 08:55 | yes | 5 | 7 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 12:02 | yes | 7 | 30 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 08:36 | yes | 10 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:31 | yes | 13 | 15 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 12:32 | yes | 14 | 12 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 10:02 | yes | 25 | 66 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 08:44 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 17:16 | no | 0 | 34 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 19:10 | yes | 25 | 41 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 12:24 | yes | 24 | 31 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 14:15 | yes | 25 | 35 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 14:45 | yes | 4 | 17 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 15:36 | yes | 19 | 25 s |
Normalization in this category
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Amazon EKS Auto Mode read as Amazon EKS
Amazon Web Services (AWS - EKS) read as Amazon EKS
Civo read as Civo Kubernetes
DigitalOcean read as DigitalOcean Kubernetes
Linode read as Linode Kubernetes Engine
Linode (Akamai) read as Linode Kubernetes Engine
Mirantis read as Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
Mirantis (formerly Docker Enterprise) read as Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
OVHcloud Kubernetes read as OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Oracle read as Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) read as Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes
Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) read as Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes
Platform9 read as Platform9 Managed Kubernetes
UpCloud read as UpCloud Managed Kubernetes
Unresolved, counted raw
AKS Free tier
Akamai's LKE-E
Alibaba Container Service for Kubernetes ACK
Autopilot
Canonical's Ubuntu Managed Kubernetes
D2iQ
DigitalOcean Kubernetes Engine (DOK)
DigitalOcean Kubernetes [DOKS]
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) GKE Enterprise
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with Anthos
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service [IKS]
IBM Red Hat OpenShift
Managed OpenShift
Mirantis MKE
Mirantis OpenShift
Nutanix Karbon
OKE Basic clusters
Oracle Container Engine [OKE]
Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) "Lite" variants
Platform One / SkunkWorks
Rancher Control Plane (Open Source Version)
Rancher Managed Kubernetes (RMK)
SUSE Rancher Server
Tanzu from VMware
VMware PKS
VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS)
VMware Tanzu Platform
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.