Managed DNS
Asked as “managed DNS provider”, and as “authoritative DNS hosting”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 44 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. Added to the November 2026 Edition.
Standing · first-choice share
95%
Clear leader
95Cloudflare DNS02Amazon Route 5302IBM NS1 Connect
95% of first choices, clear leader.
Since October 2026▲+9Since October 2026: 86% → 95%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Cloudflare DNS held the lead, +9 points on 86%, inside the 11-point 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
Cloudflare DNS80%Clear leader=heldSince October 2026: 80% → 80%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →Mid-marketCloudflare DNS95%Clear leader▲+9Since October 2026: 86% → 95%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This pageEnterpriseCloudflare DNS61%Clear leader▼−3Since October 2026: 64% → 61%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →
Cloudflare DNS80%Clear leader=heldSince October 2026: 80% → 80%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →Mid-marketCloudflare DNS95%Clear leader▲+9Since October 2026: 86% → 95%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This pageEnterpriseCloudflare DNS61%Clear leader▼−3Since October 2026: 64% → 61%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01Cloudflare DNS95%7%73endorsed leader▲+9Since October 2026: 86% → 95%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.86% → 95%
Cloudflare DNS95%7%73endorsed leader▲+9Since October 2026: 86% → 95%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.86% → 95%02Amazon Route 532%11%61accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 2%
03IBM NS1 Connect2%5%19accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%
Show the nine products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
12GoDaddy Premium DNS0%83%12criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
11
Dyn0%29%14criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Dyn0%29%14criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%08
Akamai Edge DNS0%21%34accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
Akamai Edge DNS0%21%34accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%10
DNSimple0%18%17accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
DNSimple0%18%17accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%05Google Cloud DNS Lab in the set0%16%37accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
07
NS10%6%18accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
NS10%6%18accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%04
DNS Made Easy0%0%29accepted challenger▼−7Since October 2026: 7% → 0%, −7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.7% → 0%
DNS Made Easy0%0%29accepted challenger▼−7Since October 2026: 7% → 0%, −7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.7% → 0%06Azure DNS0%0%23accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
09
ClouDNS0%0%15accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
ClouDNS0%0%15accepted 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 Cloud DNS 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 zero times of 4; the other thirteen models zero times of 52. Lab treatment is defined on the method page; the row is marked, not excluded.
For buyers
Head to head
One product takes 95% of first choices here, so the chart would put eleven 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. Two products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category.
What they warned about
Eleven of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini 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.
GoDaddy Premium DNS
83%
10 of 12 labels negative · 8 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“Suffered a significant security breach in December 2022... raising concerns about both security and service quality.” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Network Solutions100%
7 of 7 labels negative · 7 of 14 models · 6 hard negative
“Providers to Avoid or Be Cautious About ... Network Solutions ⚠️ - Issue: Statistically significant reliability problems” Kimi K2, negative prompt
Amazon Route 53
11%
7 of 61 labels negative · 7 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“The managed DNS providers that you should avoid or be cautious about are: 1. Amazon Route 53” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
Akamai Edge DNS21%
7 of 34 labels negative · 6 of 14 models
“Akamai's July 2021 Edge DNS disruption followed a configuration update that triggered a software bug” Claude Haiku 4.5, 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
71 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. 802 links across 224 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 59 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 · G224 answers · 34 citations · 9 models
22 answers · 27 citations · 10 models
publisher (Gane)22 answers · 24 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Cloudflare19 answers · 36 citations · 7 models
vendor site · DNS Made Easy19 answers · 20 citations · 10 models
18 answers · 32 citations · 9 models
vendor site · SourceForge18 answers · 19 citations · 11 models
vendor site · DNSimple16 answers · 17 citations · 8 models
vendor site · LogicMonitor16 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Cloudflare15 answers · 24 citations · 6 models
vendor site · No-IP14 answers · 14 citations · 9 models
vendor site · IBM13 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.
21 answers · 9 models
20 answers · 10 models
19 answers · 10 models
16 answers · 5 models
16 answers · 8 models
16 answers · 8 models
13 answers · 8 models
11 answers · 8 models
10 answers · 7 models
10 answers · 7 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 dns provider”, “managed dns provider”, “managed dns providers”. 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 | Google ads, last 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare parent site Cloudflare DNS 95% | 95% | 197 | 550,000 | 10,897 | ||
| Amazon parent site Amazon Route 53 2% | 2% | 165 | 151,000,000 | 1,380,939 | ||
| IBM parent site IBM NS1 Connect 2% | 2% | 74 | 201,000 | 34,098 | ||
| DNS Made Easy dnsmadeeasy.com | 0% | 62 | 2,900 | 18 | 6,242 | |
| Google Cloud parent site Google Cloud DNS 0% | 0% | 89 | 165,000 | 7,596 | ||
| Azure azure.com Azure DNS 0% | 0% | 43 | 301,000 | 47,904 | ||
| NS1 ns1.com | 0% | 37 | 1,000 | 260 | ||
| Akamai parent site Akamai Edge DNS 0%, Akamai DNS 0% | 0% | 59 | 27,100 | 1,614 | ||
| ClouDNS cloudns.net | 0% | 53 | 1,000 | 7 | 82,467 | 4 |
| DNSimple dnsimple.com | 0% | 67 | 1,000 | 12 | 178,305 | 6 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 21 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (cloudflare.com, g2.com, reddit.com, sourceforge.net). The first result for “best managed dns provider” is networkworld.com.
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 DNS provider for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which authoritative DNS hosting would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top managed DNS providers and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best managed DNS provider for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a managed DNS provider. What should we look at?”Negative“Which managed DNS providers should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Cloudflare DNSagainst: Akamai Edge DNS, Dynno first choiceChangedCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSno first choiceagainst: AWS, Akamai Edge DNS, Cloudflare DNS, Dyn
Two alternatives
NS1, Route 53Five alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Google Cloud DNS, Infoblox BloxOne DDI, OpenDNS, Quad9Three alternatives
ClouDNS, Gcore Managed DNS, NamecheapGPT-5.4 miniCloudflare DNS, IBM NS1 ConnectCloudflare DNSChangedCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSno first choiceagainst: Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS
One alternative
Amazon Route 53Two alternatives
Akamai DNS, Google Cloud DNSFour alternatives
Akamai DNS, Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS, Google Cloud DNSTwo alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Google Cloud DNSGemini 3.5 FlashCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSagainst: Akamai Edge DNS, Vercara UltraDNSCloudflare DNSagainst: Hurricane Electricno first choiceagainst: GoDaddy Premium DNS, Namecheapagainst: Bluehost, GoDaddy Premium DNS, HostGator, InMotion, Network Solutions, Register.com
Four alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Constellix, DNS Made Easy, IBM NS1 ConnectThree alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Constellix, IBM NS1 ConnectFive alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS, Constellix, Google Cloud DNS, IBM NS1 ConnectThree alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DNS, PorkbunPerplexity SonarCloudflare DNSagainst: Akamai Edge DNSCloudflare DNSHeldagainst: IBM NS1 ConnectCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSagainst: Google Cloud DNSno first choiceagainst: Amazon Route 53, Google Cloud DNS
Two alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNS Made EasyTwo alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNS Made EasySeven alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS, DNS Made Easy, DNSimple, Google Cloud DNS, NS1 / IBM NS1 ConnectTwo alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNSimpleGrok 4.20Cloudflare DNSagainst: InfobloxCloudflare DNSHeldagainst: GoDaddy Premium DNS, NS1Cloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSagainst: No-IP, ZoneEditno first choiceagainst: Akamai Edge DNS, Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare DNS, Network Solutions, Oracle Dyn
Three alternatives
Amazon Route 53, IBM NS1 Connect, Microsoft Azure DNSThree alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS, DNS Made EasyFour alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Dyn, IBM NS1 Connect, Microsoft Azure DNSFour alternatives
Amazon Route 53, ClouDNS, DNSimple, easyDNSMistral SmallCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSno first choiceagainst: AdGuard DNS, DNS.Watch, DNSimple, GoDaddy Premium DNS, Network Solutions
Four alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, ClouDNS, DNS Made Easy, DNSimpleFour alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, Amazon Route 53, DNS Made Easy, Google Cloud DNSFour alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, Amazon Route 53, Microsoft Azure DNS, NS1Two alternatives
ClouDNS, DNSimpleDeepSeek V4 FlashCloudflare DNSagainst: Akamai Edge DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSagainst: Amazon Route 53against: DuckDNS, EuroDNS, Hover, Network Solutions, Optimum, Speednames
Four alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Constellix, DNS Made Easy, IBM NS1 ConnectFive alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS, DNS Made Easy, Google Cloud DNS, NS1Six alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, Amazon Route 53, DNS Made Easy, DigiCert UltraDNS, Google Cloud DNS, IBM NS1 ConnectOne alternative
ClouDNSTwo alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, NS1/IBMLlama 4 MaverickCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSno first choiceagainst: Amazon Route 53, Dyn, GoDaddy Premium DNS, Google Cloud DNS
One alternative
DNSimpleThree alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, DNS Made Easy, NetactuateTwo alternatives
Dyn, NS1Three alternatives
ClouDNS, DNSimple, No-IPQwen 3.7 FlashCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSagainst: Akamai Edge DNSCloudflare DNSagainst: Amazon Route 53no first choiceagainst: Bluehost, GoDaddy Premium DNSagainst: AdGuard Public DNS, DNSimple, DigitalOcean DNS, Gcore Managed DNS, GoDaddy Premium DNS, Hetzner, Microsoft Azure DNS, Network Solutions, Quad101
Three alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNS Made Easy, DNSimpleThree alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNSimple, NS1Three alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS, Google Cloud DNSTwo alternatives
ClouDNS, No-IPKimi K2Cloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSno first choiceagainst: Dotster, GoDaddy Premium DNS, Network Solutions, Oracle Dyn, Squarespace
Two alternatives
DNS Made Easy, IBM NS1 ConnectFour alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNS Made Easy, Google Cloud DNS, IBM NS1 ConnectEight alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, Amazon Route 53, Constellix, DNS Made Easy, Dyn, Google Cloud DNS, NS1, UltraDNSTwo alternatives
Amazon Route 53, ClouDNSGLM 4.7 FlashXAmazon Route 53, Cloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSChangedCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSno first choiceagainst: Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare DNS, DNSimple, Dyn, Google Cloud DNS, Microsoft Azure DNS, NominetDNS, Quad9, TPP Wholesale, easyDNS
Three alternatives
Azure DNS, DNS Made Easy, DNSimpleSeven alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS, Constellix, DNS Made Easy, Google Cloud DNS, NS1Four alternatives
Amazon Route 53, BlueCat Integrity, IBM NS1 Connect, Quad9Six alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Bunny DNS, ClouDNS, DNSExit, Google Cloud DNS, Namecheap Premium DNSMiniMax M2.5Cloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldAmazon Route 53, Cloudflare DNSagainst: GoDaddy Premium DNSCloudflare DNSno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
DNS Made Easy, DNSimple, VercaraFour alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, Amazon Route 53, Google Cloud DNS, NS1Six alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, Dyn, Google Cloud DNS, NS1, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DNS, UltraDNSTwo alternatives
ClouDNS, No-IPGPT-6 LunaCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSno first choiceagainst: Cloudflare DNS, GoDaddy Premium DNS, Google Public DNS
Two alternatives
Amazon Route 53, IBM NS1 ConnectTwo alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Cloud DNSFive alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS, Google Cloud DNS, IBM NS1 ConnectOne alternative
Amazon Route 53Muse Glimmer 30BCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSagainst: Amazon Route 53, Google Cloud DNSno first choiceagainst: Enom, EuroDNS, NameShield Managed DNS, Network Solutions, Register.com, Wix.com DNS management
Five alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNS Made Easy, IBM NS1 Connect, NS1, VercaraThree alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS, Google Cloud DNSFour alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Google Cloud DNS, IBM NS1 Connect, NS1Two alternatives
DNSimple, NamecheapBold 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 10:33 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 14:16 | yes | 4 | 5 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 14:41 | yes | 11 | 21 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 13:41 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 16:27 | yes | 14 | 14 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 14:51 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 10:33 | yes | 24 | 40 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 14:56 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 10:33 | yes | 5 | 34 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 15:52 | yes | 18 | 61 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 17:22 | yes | 15 | 24 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 17:22 | yes | 5 | 22 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 19:31 | yes | 4 | 14 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 16:17 | yes | 12 | 22 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 18:12 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 13:26 | yes | 4 | 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 12:35 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 16:59 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 13:49 | yes | 10 | 11 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 09:20 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 18:25 | yes | 25 | 55 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:14 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 16:40 | yes | 5 | 27 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 12:55 | yes | 10 | 28 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 15:17 | yes | 10 | 34 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 09:12 | yes | 5 | 43 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 11:14 | yes | 3 | 14 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 16:13 | yes | 12 | 18 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 10:23 | yes | 10 | 9 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 13:05 | yes | 8 | 8 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 11:52 | yes | 4 | 25 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 10:21 | yes | 10 | 6 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:35 | yes | 10 | 18 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 09:23 | yes | 10 | 9 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 09:39 | yes | 24 | 29 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 15:40 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 13:48 | no | 0 | 28 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 13:31 | yes | 20 | 31 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 15:44 | yes | 23 | 109 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 17:11 | yes | 10 | 26 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 11:24 | yes | 6 | 27 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 13:04 | yes | 15 | 25 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 18:45 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 16:40 | no | 0 | 2 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 10:24 | no | 0 | 13 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 17:18 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 14:06 | yes | 14 | 14 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 16:23 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 14:05 | yes | 23 | 28 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 19:03 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 18:16 | yes | 5 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 09:09 | yes | 14 | 35 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 14:51 | yes | 19 | 113 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 15:53 | yes | 10 | 29 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 10:12 | yes | 3 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 08:36 | yes | 14 | 20 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 09:58 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 09:55 | no | 0 | 7 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 14:56 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 09:57 | yes | 10 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:50 | yes | 5 | 13 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 16:34 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 09:22 | yes | 24 | 27 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 17:28 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 08:42 | yes | 8 | 38 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 11:38 | yes | 15 | 19 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 16:52 | yes | 20 | 35 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:55 | no | 0 | 25 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 13:06 | yes | 4 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 16:30 | yes | 15 | 26 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 14:34 | yes | 17 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 15:49 | yes | 2 | 4 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 12:43 | no | 0 | 17 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 11:24 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:58 | yes | 23 | 16 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 18:03 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 19:43 | yes | 24 | 40 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:42 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 19:23 | yes | 20 | 39 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 18:50 | yes | 25 | 39 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 17:26 | yes | 24 | 41 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 14:28 | no | 0 | 20 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 12:59 | yes | 4 | 18 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 10:38 | yes | 14 | 23 s |
Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
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Category-scoped readings
AWS Route 53 read as Amazon Route 53
Akamai read as Akamai Edge DNS
Akamai (NS1) read as Akamai Edge DNS
Akamai (formerly Verisign DNS) read as Akamai Edge DNS
BlueCat read as BlueCat Integrity
Cloudflare read as Cloudflare DNS
Cloudflare (Business / Enterprise) read as Cloudflare DNS
Cloudflare Free DNS read as Cloudflare DNS
Cloudflare authoritative DNS read as Cloudflare DNS
DigitalOcean read as DigitalOcean DNS
Gcore read as Gcore Managed DNS
GoDaddy read as GoDaddy Premium DNS
GoDaddy (Premium DNS) read as GoDaddy Premium DNS
GoDaddy DNS read as GoDaddy Premium DNS
IBM NS1 (NS1 Connect) read as IBM NS1 Connect
Oracle Dyn DNS read as Oracle Dyn
Unresolved, counted raw
AdGuard Public DNS
Free Registrar DNS
Hostinger DNS
Hover
NameShield Managed DNS
NominetDNS
Optimum
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DNS
Quad101
Spaceship
Speednames
TPP Wholesale
Wix.com DNS management
ZoneEdit
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.