Colocation providers · RankedDataBank
DataBank is a colocation provider offering data center facilities for businesses that host their own IT infrastructure · databank.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%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Equinix is first at 66%.
Why models recommend it
“DataBank and Flexential as the first two providers to compare in your metro”GPT-6 Luna · Paraphrase question · first choice
“I'd start with DataBank—and get a competing quote from Flexential.”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · first choice
“I'd suggest CyrusOne or DataBank as first choices”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Best All-Around for Mid-Market: TierPoint or DataBank”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as DataBank, over the 50 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 15 | Compare → | |
| 42 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 41 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 37 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 36 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 23 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of DataBank →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on DataBank's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- enterprises, technology developers, and content providers
- Certifications
- FedRAMP, FISMA, SSAE 21, HIPAA, PCI DSS, EU-US DPF, CMMC
- Hosting
- Usa, United Kingdom, West, Central, South, East, Europe
- Customers named
- Penguin Solutions, Merchants and Marine Bank, NJIT, University of Maryland, Boost Mobile, The New Jewish Home, Rhodian Group, Seaglass Technology Partners
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 46 of the 50 answers that named DataBank and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
164 of the 164 domain citations in answers naming DataBank came from a third party's page.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,366 | 8 | 2026-09-24 | Colocation, Cloud hosting | |
| News or press | 455 | 14 | 2026-10-01 | Colocation | |
| Podcast or video | 200 | 13 | 2026-09-30 | Colocation | |
| Glossary or explainer | 177 | 0 | 2026-03-13 | Object storage, SD-WAN | |
| Conference or event | 108 | 2 | 2026-08-13 | ||
| Comparison | 62 | 1 | 2026-08-02 | Cloud hosting | |
| Report or ebook | 31 | 2 | 2026-10-01 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 22 | 0 | 2026-04-24 | ||
| Template or tool | 7 | 1 | 2026-08-04 | ||
| Case study | 6 | 0 | 2026-05-06 |
Most recent
- 2026-10-01Databank acquires building housing msp2 data center in minneapolis news or press
- 2026-10-01The business value of interconnection in colocation report or ebook
- 2026-09-30Why strong infrastructure partnerships matter podcast or video
- 2026-09-25Behind your digital life podcast or video
- 2026-09-24The truth about data centers why transmission is the real grid challenge blog
- 2026-09-23Investing in community supporting the carver food enterprise in culpeper blog
Events in person
- September 15, 2026 to September 17, 2026Meet with DataBank at AI Infra Summit 2026place not stated · exhibited
- September 1, 2026 to September 3, 2026Meet with DataBank at Datacloud x Metro Connect Fall 2026place not stated · attended
As the event pages on databank.com state them, read October 5, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page databank.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.