Colocation providers · RankedCoreSite
CoreSite is a colocation provider with data center facilities in North American metro markets · coresite.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
TierPoint is first at 13%.
Flexential is first at 18%. 3 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Equinix is first at 66%.
Why models recommend it
“CoreSite is highlighted as the "best overall for interconnection depth" with native cloud onramps and a dense carrier ecosystem.”MiniMax M2.5 · Direct question · first choice
“choose CoreSite if cloud/network adjacency is central; otherwise choose Flexential”Perplexity Sonar · Paraphrase question · first choice
“If I had to pick one, I'd recommend CoreSite for most mid-sized B2B companies”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“CoreSite is frequently cited as the "Goldilocks" choice for the mid-market.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Market giants (like Equinix, Digital Realty, or CoreSite) offer top-tier infrastructure, but their business models cater primarily to enterprises”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Other options to consider include 365 Data Centers and CoreSite, but these tend to be more expensive”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Great if you need hybrid cloud adjacency, but can be pricier for basic colocation”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Direct question · warning
“Instead of leasing directly from expensive facilities (like CoreSite or Equinix)”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as CoreSite, over the 106 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98 | 47 | Compare → | |
| 80 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 58 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 51 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 44 | 0 | View → | |
| 42 | 0 | View → | |
| 41 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 32 | 0 | View → | |
| 25 | 2 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of CoreSite →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on CoreSite's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- enterprises
- Certifications
- ISO 27001, SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, NIST 800-53, HIPAA, PCI DSS
- Hosting
- 11 strategic U.S. markets, West, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Central, Chicago, Denver, Northeast
- Customers named
- Georgia IT, Seceon, Voxility, MLB Network, Verizon, Paul Hastings, Supplyframe, TOWARDEX
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
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. These counts come from 98 of the 106 answers that named CoreSite and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
237 of the 282 domain citations in answers naming CoreSite came from a third party's page. Twenty were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 296 | 11 | 2026-09-24 | Colocation | |
| News or press | 83 | 2 | 2026-09-01 | ||
| Case study | 47 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 29 | 27 | 2026-09-23 | Infra monitoring | |
| Glossary or explainer | 21 | 8 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Report or ebook | 17 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 9 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 7 | 0 | 2023-12-15 | ||
| Conference or event | 2 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Optimize ai workloads with colocation and hybrid it blog
- 2026-09-23Open cloud exchange demo podcast or video
- 2026-09-23Data center infrastructure monitoring podcast or video
- 2026-09-23Data center airflow and cooling techniques podcast or video
- 2026-09-23Mycoresite service delivery platform demo video podcast or video
- 2026-09-23Welcome to coresite video podcast or video
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page coresite.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 October 5, 2026.