ML platforms · RankedGoogle Colab
Google Colab is a notebook-based environment from Google that provides GPU and TPU compute for machine learning work · colab.research.google.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.
Google Vertex AI is first at 20%.
Databricks Mosaic AI is first at 24%.
No model named it for this buyer.
Why models recommend it
“Google Colab (free) for experimentation and early development”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Start with Google Colab or Kaggle for experimentation.”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Google Colab (Best Overall for Limited Budgets)”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Google Colab is the best starting point”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Google Colab, over the 26 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 4 | View → | |
| 11 | 3 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
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 18 of the 26 answers that named Google Colab and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-five of the seventy-one domain citations in answers naming Google Colab came from a third party's page. Eight 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |