Colocation providers · RankedDigital Realty
Digital Realty is a data center operator that offers colocation services · digitalrealty.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise. Ranked 21 of 109 for small business buyers.
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%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Equinix is first at 66%.
Why models recommend it
“prioritize Tier III certified or Tier IV facilities operated by carrier-neutral entities (like Digital Realty, CoreSite, CyrusOne”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“Equinix and Digital Realty dominate the global market as the largest, carrier-neutral providers”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · first choice
“Equinix and Digital Realty dominate with roughly 40–50% combined global retail/wholesale market share.”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · first choice
“Massive power density, AI/HPC, hyperscale growth | Digital Realty or CyrusOne”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid for tight budgets: Premium names like Equinix or Digital Realty”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“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
“Some models recommend avoiding hyperscale giants like Equinix and Digital Realty for smaller or mid-market firms due to cost and complexity.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Avoid hyperscale giants (Equinix, Digital Realty): ... will likely be overkill and overpriced for a mid-market B2B firm.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Digital Realty, over the 126 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 126 | 45 | Compare → | |
| 80 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 54 | 1 | View → | |
| 51 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 49 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 43 | 0 | View → | |
| 36 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 0 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | View → | |
| 19 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Digital Realty →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Digital Realty's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- enterprises and service providers
- Hosting
- Americas, EMEA, APAC
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 104 of the 126 answers that named Digital Realty and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
268 of the 292 domain citations in answers naming Digital Realty came from a third party's page. Twenty-four 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 468 | undated | |||
| Blog | 385 | undated | SASE, CDN | ||
| Podcast or video | 150 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 78 | undated | |||
| Case study | 54 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 47 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 43 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 15 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 4 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page digitalrealty.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.