Managed DNS for small business buyers
Asked as “managed DNS provider”, and as “authoritative DNS hosting”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 51 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. Added to the November 2026 Edition.
Standing · first-choice share
80%
Clear leader
80Cloudflare DNS10DNSimple08DNS Made Easy02others
80% of first choices, clear leader.
Since October 2026=heldSince October 2026: 80% → 80%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Cloudflare DNS held the lead, ±0 points on 80%, 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.This pageMid-marketCloudflare DNS95%Clear leader▲+9Since October 2026: 86% → 95%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →EnterpriseCloudflare 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.This pageMid-marketCloudflare DNS95%Clear leader▲+9Since October 2026: 86% → 95%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →EnterpriseCloudflare 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 small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01Cloudflare DNS80%3%79endorsed leader=heldSince October 2026: 80% → 80%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.80% → 80%
Cloudflare DNS80%3%79endorsed leader=heldSince October 2026: 80% → 80%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.80% → 80%02
DNSimple10%4%49accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 12% → 10%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.12% → 10%
DNSimple10%4%49accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 12% → 10%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.12% → 10%03
DNS Made Easy8%4%28accepted challenger▲+6Since October 2026: 2% → 8%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 8%
DNS Made Easy8%4%28accepted challenger▲+6Since October 2026: 2% → 8%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 8%04
ClouDNS2%0%30accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%
ClouDNS2%0%30accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%Show the five products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
08
Network Solutions0%100%11criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Network Solutions0%100%11criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%09GoDaddy Premium DNS0%83%18criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
05Amazon Route 530%7%61accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
06Google Cloud DNS Lab in the set0%3%33accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
07
NS10%0%11accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
NS10%0%11accepted 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
Cloudflare DNS vs Amazon Route 53Cloudflare DNS vs IBM NS1 ConnectAmazon Route 53 vs IBM NS1 Connect
Head-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not small business.One product takes 80% of first choices here, so the chart would put eight 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
Ten of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Kimi K2 and Muse Glimmer 30B 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.
Network Solutions100%
11 of 11 labels negative · 11 of 14 models · 10 hard negative
“considered a legacy registrar that survives on inertia, sticky processes, and upsells, rather than being a great authoritative DNS provider” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
GoDaddy Premium DNS
83%
15 of 18 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 7 hard negative
“2. GoDaddy Similar criticism to Network Solutions, with additional specific concerns for DNS management” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Gcore Managed DNS75%
3 of 4 labels negative · 3 of 14 models · 3 hard negative
“User reports of frequent outages, slow response times, limited features, security concerns, and an unappealing/unintuitive interface.” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
Namecheap
56%
5 of 9 labels negative · 3 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“Registrar-provided DNS (GoDaddy, Namecheap, etc.) is often slow to propagate, lacks DNSSEC” DeepSeek V4 Flash, paraphrase 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
72 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. 807 links across 182 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 · G238 answers · 73 citations · 11 models
vendor site · DNSimple38 answers · 50 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Cloudflare27 answers · 56 citations · 11 models
20 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
vendor site · SourceForge19 answers · 21 citations · 8 models
18 answers · 40 citations · 9 models
17 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
17 answers · 17 citations · 6 models
vendor site · DNS Made Easy16 answers · 16 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Cloudflare15 answers · 19 citations · 6 models
vendor site · No-IP13 answers · 13 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Amazon12 answers · 19 citations · 5 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.
32 answers · 9 models
32 answers · 10 models
20 answers · 9 models
19 answers · 7 models
17 answers · 6 models
16 answers · 10 models
14 answers · 8 models
13 answers · 8 models
12 answers · 8 models
12 answers · 6 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 80% | 80% | 197 | 550,000 | 10,897 | ||
| DNSimple dnsimple.com | 10% | 67 | 1,000 | 12 | 178,305 | 6 |
| DNS Made Easy dnsmadeeasy.com | 8% | 62 | 2,900 | 18 | 6,242 | |
| ClouDNS cloudns.net | 2% | 53 | 1,000 | 7 | 82,467 | 4 |
| Amazon parent site Amazon Route 53 0% | 0% | 165 | 151,000,000 | 1,380,939 | ||
| Google Cloud parent site Google Cloud DNS 0% | 0% | 89 | 165,000 | 7,596 | ||
| NS1 ns1.com | 0% | 37 | 1,000 | 260 | ||
| Azure azure.com Azure DNS 0% | 0% | 43 | 301,000 | 47,904 | ||
| Route 53 | 0% | 6,600 | 1,255 | |||
| Constellix | 0% |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 21 sites; 5 of them are among the sites the models cited here (aws.amazon.com, 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 small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which authoritative DNS hosting would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top managed DNS providers for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best managed DNS provider for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a managed DNS provider. What should we look at?”Negative“Which managed DNS providers should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceno first choiceHeldClouDNS, Cloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSno first choiceagainst: Alternate DNS, Comodo Secure DNS, DNS.Watch, Network Solutions
Three alternatives
Constellix, DNS Made Easy, Gcore Managed DNSThree alternatives
ClouDNS, DNS Made Easy, Namecheap PremiumDNSGPT-5.4 miniCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Akamai Edge DNS, Amazon Route 53, DNS ManagerOne alternative
Akamai Edge DNSFive alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS, DNSimple, DigitalOcean DNS, Google Cloud DNSOne alternative
Amazon Route 53Gemini 3.5 FlashCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSagainst: Constellix, DNS Made EasyCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSagainst: Domain.com, Dyn, GoDaddy Premium DNS, Network Solutions, Register.com, cPanel DNS
Five alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS, Constellix, DNS Made Easy, Google Cloud DNSFour alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Constellix, DNS Made Easy, Microsoft Azure DNSThree alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Bunny DNS, DNSimpleThree alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Bunny DNS, Hetzner DNSFour alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS, DNSimple, Google Cloud DNSPerplexity SonarCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSagainst: DNSimpleno first choiceagainst: Cisco Umbrella, Cloudflare Gateway, DNSFilter, Quad9
Four alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNS Made Easy, DNSimple, Google Cloud DNSTwo alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNS Made EasyFive alternatives
Amazon Route 53, ClouDNS, DNS Made Easy, DNSimple, Google Cloud DNSTwo alternatives
Amazon Route 53, ClouDNSGrok 4.20Cloudflare DNSagainst: GoDaddy Premium DNS, IBM NS1 ConnectCloudflare DNSHeldagainst: Amazon Route 53, GoDaddy Premium DNS, NamecheapCloudflare DNSagainst: Akamai Edge DNS, GoDaddy Premium DNSCloudflare DNSagainst: GoDaddy Premium DNS, Namecheap, Porkbunno first choiceagainst: Dotster, Enom, Gcore Managed DNS, GoDaddy Premium DNS, Namecheap, Network Solutions, Oracle Dyn, Register.com, Verisign
Two alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNSimpleTwo alternatives
DNS Made Easy, DNSimpleFour alternatives
Amazon Route 53, ClouDNS, DNS Made Easy, DNSimpleThree alternatives
Amazon Route 53, ClouDNS, DNS Made EasyThree alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare DNS, DNSimpleMistral SmallDNS Made Easy, DNSimpleCloudflare DNS, DNS Made EasyChangedCloudflare DNS, DNSimpleagainst: Akamai Edge DNSCloudflare DNSno first choiceagainst: Dynagainst: Gcore Managed DNS, Network Solutions, SRSPlus, Wix.com
Two alternatives
ClouDNS, Cloudflare DNSTwo alternatives
Amazon Route 53, ClouDNSFour alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNS Made Easy, Google Cloud DNS, No-IPDeepSeek V4 FlashCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldagainst: GoDaddy Premium DNS, NamecheapCloudflare DNSagainst: IBM NS1 ConnectCloudflare DNSagainst: Hetzner DNSCloudflare DNS, DNS Made Easyagainst: Amazon Route 53against: Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare DNS, GoDaddy Premium DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Network Solutions
Three alternatives
Amazon Route 53, CloudDNS, DNSimpleThree alternatives
DNS Made Easy, DNSimple, Route 53Three alternatives
Amazon Route 53, ClouDNS, DNSimpleOne alternative
ClouDNSTwo alternatives
NS1, easyDNSLlama 4 Maverickno first choiceCloudflare DNS, DNSimpleChangedno first choiceClouDNS, Cloudflare DNSno first choiceagainst: GoDaddy Premium DNS, Network Solutions
Three alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNSimple, Google Cloud DNSQwen 3.7 FlashCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSagainst: Amazon Route 53Cloudflare DNSagainst: Bluehost, GoDaddy Premium DNSagainst: GoDaddy Premium DNS, Network Solutions
Three alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNSimple, Google Cloud DNSTwo alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNSimpleFour alternatives
Amazon Route 53, ClouDNS, DNSimple, Google Cloud DNSThree alternatives
ClouDNS, Namecheap, PorkbunThree alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNS Made Easy, NS1Kimi K2Cloudflare DNS, DNSimpleCloudflare DNSChangedCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNS, DNSimpleagainst: BIND, GoDaddy Premium DNS, Network Solutions
One alternative
Amazon Route 53Five alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNSimple, Google Cloud DNS, Total Uptime, easyDNSTwo alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNSimpleTwo alternatives
DNS Made Easy, Namecheap FreeDNSGLM 4.7 FlashXCloudflare DNSagainst: GoDaddy Premium DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSagainst: DNSExit, Enom, Gcore Managed DNS, Network Solutions, Register.com
One alternative
Amazon Route 53Two alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Google Cloud DNSThree alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Control D, DNSimpleTwo alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Namecheap PremiumDNSTwo alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNSimpleMiniMax M2.5Cloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSno first choiceagainst: Alibaba Cloud DNS, Cloudflare DNS, Cosmotown, Dotster, GoDaddy Premium DNS, Namecheap, Network Solutions, Web.com, Wix DNS
One alternative
DNSimpleThree alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Constellix, DNSimpleTwo alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNSimpleOne alternative
ClouDNSGPT-6 LunaCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSHeldCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSno first choiceagainst: DNSimple, Google Cloud
One alternative
Route 53One alternative
Amazon Route 53Four alternatives
Amazon Route 53, DNSimple, DigiCert DNS Essentials, Google Cloud DNSOne alternative
Amazon Route 53Muse Glimmer 30BDNS Made EasyDNSimpleChangedCloudflare DNSCloudflare DNSno first choiceagainst: GoDaddy Premium DNS, Network Solutions, Web.com, Wix.com
Four alternatives
Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare DNS, DNSimple, Google Cloud DNSTwo alternatives
Cloudflare DNS, DNS Made EasySix alternatives
Amazon Route 53, ClouDNS, DNS Made Easy, DNSimple, IBM NS1 Connect, NS1Two alternatives
ClouDNS Free Managed DNS, DNSimpleBold 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 08:39 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 14:48 | 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 10:37 | no | 0 | 12 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 18:03 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 14:24 | yes | 10 | 11 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 12:42 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 11:18 | yes | 13 | 29 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 12:07 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 10:31 | yes | 5 | 23 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 19:08 | yes | 10 | 44 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 13:42 | yes | 24 | 75 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 16:42 | yes | 9 | 26 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 16:44 | yes | 3 | 11 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 11:32 | yes | 12 | 17 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 18:13 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 17:36 | yes | 4 | 4 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 11:57 | no | 0 | 13 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 13:25 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:26 | yes | 9 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 12:33 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 17:59 | yes | 23 | 25 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 16:33 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 09:28 | yes | 5 | 25 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 18:35 | yes | 14 | 17 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 15:53 | yes | 23 | 41 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 15:53 | yes | 5 | 26 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 15:39 | yes | 3 | 11 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 19:33 | yes | 12 | 20 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 11:42 | yes | 9 | 9 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 15:58 | 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 08:47 | yes | 10 | 23 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 18:03 | yes | 10 | 5 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:07 | yes | 5 | 12 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 15:49 | yes | 5 | 7 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 14:56 | yes | 21 | 28 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 15:14 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 14:14 | yes | 10 | 21 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 10:04 | yes | 15 | 27 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 09:00 | yes | 25 | 60 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:01 | yes | 15 | 23 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 11:06 | yes | 5 | 22 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 17:01 | yes | 13 | 30 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 09:11 | yes | 15 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 16:50 | yes | 2 | 4 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 14:30 | no | 0 | 15 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 09:18 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 16:34 | yes | 15 | 11 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 08:44 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 13:48 | yes | 23 | 23 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 18:55 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 14:53 | yes | 5 | 23 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 12:00 | yes | 15 | 22 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 13:10 | yes | 23 | 85 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 11:44 | yes | 5 | 29 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 11:19 | yes | 3 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 10:07 | yes | 14 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 08:57 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 18:21 | no | 0 | 6 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 15:59 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 17:56 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 17:41 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 18:20 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 16:35 | yes | 25 | 39 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:56 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 16:20 | no | 0 | 29 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 10:25 | yes | 14 | 21 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 18:22 | yes | 14 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 15:13 | yes | 5 | 42 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 08:46 | yes | 2 | 11 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 16:18 | yes | 15 | 22 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 10:38 | yes | 20 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 11:01 | no | 0 | 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 15:51 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 09:33 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 16:06 | yes | 15 | 13 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 17:54 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 12:43 | yes | 23 | 30 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 11:23 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 14:16 | yes | 10 | 28 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 16:41 | yes | 24 | 33 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 10:00 | yes | 25 | 21 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 16:15 | yes | 24 | 105 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 15:04 | yes | 4 | 20 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 12:16 | yes | 25 | 33 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
Azure read as Azure DNS
Cloudflare read as Cloudflare DNS
Cloudflare Authoritative DNS read as Cloudflare DNS
Cloudflare Free Tier read as Cloudflare DNS
Cloudflare authoritative DNS read as Cloudflare DNS
DigitalOcean read as DigitalOcean DNS
GoDaddy read as GoDaddy Premium DNS
Oracle Dyn DNS read as Oracle Dyn
Unresolved, counted raw
Alternate DNS
ClouDNS Free Managed DNS
CloudDNS
Cosmotown
DigiCert DNS Essentials
NameSilo
SRSPlus
Wix DNS
cPanel DNS
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.