# Rafay: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 1 category by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/rafay

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Managed Kubernetes platforms](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/cloud/managed-kubernetes-platforms/index.md) | 0% | 17 | 0% | 3 |

## What the models said for it

- "Rafay or Platform9 — managed services that wrap around hyperscaler or on-prem clusters for centralized governance" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, Managed Kubernetes)
- "Platform9, Rafay, or CAST AI: SaaS management layers that work across clouds" (Kimi K2, Managed Kubernetes)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Rafay, from 7 of the 9 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- rafay.co: 6 (its own site)
- gane.ai/index: 4
- qovery.com: 4
- ciopages.com: 3
- dev.to: 3
- infoworld.com: 3
- northflank.com: 3
- platform9.com: 3
- portainer.io: 3
- clever.cloud: 2

### Pages cited

- https://rafay.co/articles/best-managed-kubernetes-solutions: 6
- https://www.gane.ai/index/it/cloud/managed-kubernetes-platforms/enterprise: 4
- https://ciopages.com/buyer-guides/kubernetes-platforms: 3
- https://clever.cloud/blog/features/2026/07/24/managed-kubernetes-benefits-limitations-and-selection-criteria: 2
- https://controlplane.com/blog/post/top-managed-kubernetes-services: 2
- https://dev.to/bascoibm/what-enterprises-actually-need-from-a-managed-kubernetes-provider-beyond-its-managed-58bd: 2
- https://enterprisemanagement.com/product/kubernetes-at-scale-public-cloud-managed-kubernetes-alone-is-not-the-answer: 2
- https://hackernoon.com/managed-kubernetes-isnt-one-size-fits-all-what-enterprises-should-know: 2

## In its own words

What Rafay's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: AI Infrastructure Orchestration Platform (https://rafay.co/)
- For: Enterprises, Service Providers, neoclouds, sovereign AI clouds, Telcos, cloud providers (https://rafay.co/)
- Price stated: The Rafay Platform is priced based on a platform fee plus a per GPU/CPU or per Node unit fee. (https://rafay.co/platform/pricing)
- Customers named: TELUS, Guardant Health, MoneyGram, Minim, Accenture, Regeneron, Alation

## What it publishes

Every page rafay.co exposes, read 2026-09-29: 3051 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 26 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2025-09-15
- case study: 7 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- webinar or virtual event: 32 pages, 2 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-24
- conference or event: 69 pages, 6 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-24
- report or ebook: 60 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-24
- comparison: 15 pages, 7 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-24
- template or tool: 12 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- glossary or explainer: 331 pages, 9 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-24
- podcast or video: 13 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-24
- news or press: 61 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- Recent: 2026-09-24 conference or event: Compute is the new revenue what i heard at the ai infra summit https://rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/compute-is-the-new-revenue-what-i-heard-at-the-ai-infra-summit
- Recent: 2026-09-24 comparison: Drift prevention vs detection does a polling approach make sense at scale https://rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/drift-prevention-vs-detection-does-a-polling-approach-make-sense-at-scale
- Recent: 2026-09-24 webinar or virtual event: Introducing brave oss provision on demand bare metal infrastructure for dev and test environments https://rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/introducing-brave-oss-provision-on-demand-bare-metal-infrastructure-for-dev-and-test-environments
- Recent: 2026-09-24 report or ebook: Introduction to jupyter notebooks https://rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/introduction-to-jupyter-notebooks
- Recent: 2026-09-24 podcast or video: Latest shiny podcast building applications at the infrastructure edge https://rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/latest-shiny-podcast-building-applications-at-the-infrastructure-edge
- Recent: 2026-09-24 conference or event: Rafay ai summit day 1 our biggest takeaways on building profitable ai businesses https://rafay.co/ai-and-cloud-native-blog/rafay-ai-summit-day-1-our-biggest-takeaways-on-building-profitable-ai-businesses

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.