Industry Report

Container Deployment Platforms

Platforms and services that manage containerized application deployment, scaling, and lifecycle across clusters and cloud providers.

Brands tracked: 38

Brands analyzed: 38

Last updated: 2026-04-22

Model: OpenAI GPT-5

Prompts: 293

Total responses: 1,505

Top Brand Overall?

Google

88/100

Highest overall AI Visibility Score in this industry.

LBA Leader?

Microsoft

Highest score on the LBA metric.

Authority Leader?

Google

Highest score on the Authority metric.

TOM Leader?

Google

Highest score on the TOM metric.

Google is the default answer in AI responses for Container Deployment Platforms

When users ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini about Container Deployment Platforms, Google is the brand that surfaces first - unprompted, consistently, and usually at the top of any list the model generates. Kubernetes is a close second, but the gap between them is meaningful. If you're competing in this space and you're not in the top handful, you're effectively invisible to AI-driven discovery.

#	Brand	LBA	Authority	TOM	Overall
1	Google google.com	88	83	93	88
2	Kubernetes kubernetes.io	90	61	81	77
3	OpenShift openshift.com	82	47	79	67
4	Red Hat OpenShift redhat.com	86	43	72	64
5	Amazon amazon.com	89	32	69	58
6	Rancher rancher.com	87	18	50	43
7	Render render.com	77	12	21	27
8	Tanzu vmware.com	67	6	33	23
9	Docker docker.com	87	5	22	22
10	Fly.io fly.io	83	6	18	21
11	Argo CD argoproj.io	87	8	9	19
12	Heroku heroku.com	80	4	12	16
13	Railway railway.com	79	3	13	14
14	Nomad nomadproject.io	82	1	29	13
15	Microsoft microsoft.com	93	0	10	2
16	Mirantis mirantis.com	76	0	5	2
17	Platform9 platform9.com	66	0	4	1
18	Portainer portainer.io	75	0	1	1
19	Akuity akuity.io	57	0	0	0
20	CapRover caprover.com	71	0	0	0
21	Civo civo.com	53	0	0	0
22	Coolify coolify.io	57	0	0	0
23	Cycle cycle.io	21	0	0	0
24	D2iQ d2iq.com	63	0	0	0
25	Dokku dokku.com	64	0	0	0
26	Gardener gardener.cloud	45	0	0	0
27	Giant Swarm giantswarm.io	69	0	0	0
28	Humanitec humanitec.com	65	0	0	0
29	Jelastic jelastic.com	58	0	0	0
30	Koyeb koyeb.com	41	0	0	0
31	Kubermatic kubermatic.com	58	0	0	0
32	Northflank northflank.com	54	0	0	0
33	Okteto okteto.com	61	0	0	0
34	Qovery qovery.com	60	0	0	0
35	Rafay rafay.co	71	0	0	0
36	Spectro Cloud spectrocloud.com	57	0	0	0
37	Terraform hashicorp.com	78	0	0	0
38	Z Zeet zeet.co	18	0	0	0

Overall AI Visibility Score

Geometric mean of LBA, Authority and TOM: (LBA × Authority × TOM)^(1/3). Geometric mean is used so that any single weak metric pulls the overall score down, rather than being masked by strength elsewhere.

Shared industry prompts

For Authority and TOM, all brands in the industry are scored against the same 293 category prompts (e.g. "best SEO tools for agencies"). This makes brand-to-brand comparisons valid - everyone faces identical inputs. LBA prompts are per-brand because they ask brand-specific questions.

Latent Brand Association (LBA)

5 brand probes + 1 control prompt, each run 5 times in recall mode (no web search). LBA = quality × meta × stability × share × recognition × 100. Read the full LBA methodology →

LLM Authority

50 organic category prompts (discovery, comparison, problem and transactional intents), each run once in recall mode and once in retrieval mode. Score = frequency × log-decayed prominence × intent weight, then 50/50 averaged across the two modes. Read the full Authority methodology →

Top of Mind (TOM)

15 high-volume discovery prompts (sourced from Keywords Everywhere search-volume data), each run 5 times in pure recall mode (no web). Score = frequency × (0.5 + 0.5 × log-prominence), volume-weighted. Read the full TOM methodology →

Container Deployment Platforms

Google is the default answer in AI responses for Container Deployment Platforms

Brand Leaderboard All 38 Container Deployment Platforms brands ranked

How is this calculated? Methodology

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