Managed container orchestration platforms that provide hosted Kubernetes clusters, container registries, and related developer tooling for deploying containerized applications.
When users ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini about Managed Kubernetes & Container Services, Google is the brand that surfaces first - unprompted, consistently, and usually at the top of any list the model generates. Amazon 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.
Ranked by overall AI Visibility Score (geometric mean of LBA, Authority, and TOM). Click any brand for the full report.
| # | Brand | LBA | Authority | TOM | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Google
google.com
|
89 | 96 | 100 | 95 |
| 2 |
Amazon
amazon.com
|
87 | 60 | 94 | 79 |
| 3 |
DigitalOcean
digitalocean.com
|
87 | 33 | 63 | 56 |
| 4 |
OpenShift
openshift.com
|
87 | 19 | 48 | 43 |
| 5 |
Red Hat OpenShift
redhat.com
|
82 | 17 | 42 | 39 |
| 6 |
Oracle
oracle.com
|
77 | 9 | 24 | 26 |
| 7 |
Linode
linode.com
|
78 | 6 | 13 | 18 |
| 8 |
Rancher
rancher.com
|
86 | 0 | 9 | 7 |
| 9 |
IBM
ibm.com
|
80 | 0 | 13 | 2 |
| 10 |
Microsoft
microsoft.com
|
100 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| 11 |
Tanzu
vmware.com
|
69 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| 12 |
Civo
civo.com
|
56 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 13 |
Platform9
platform9.com
|
63 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 14 |
Scaleway
scaleway.com
|
65 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 |
Alibaba Cloud
alibabacloud.com
|
67 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 |
Azure DevOps
azure.com
|
62 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 |
Cycle
cycle.io
|
28 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 |
D2iQ
d2iq.com
|
56 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 |
Giant Swarm
giantswarm.io
|
62 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 |
Huawei Cloud
huaweicloud.com
|
61 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 |
Kubermatic
kubermatic.com
|
59 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 |
Kublr
kublr.com
|
39 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 |
Mirantis
mirantis.com
|
72 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 |
Northflank
northflank.com
|
50 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 |
OVHcloud
ovhcloud.com
|
65 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 |
Porter
portermetrics.com
|
53 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 |
Qovery
qovery.com
|
59 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 |
Rafay
rafay.co
|
58 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 |
Spectro Cloud
spectrocloud.com
|
67 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 |
Tencent Cloud
tencentcloud.com
|
67 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 |
Vultr
vultr.com
|
71 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 |
Z
Zeet
zeet.co
|
29 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Every brand in this leaderboard is scored against the same set of 253 shared Managed Kubernetes & Container Services prompts. The same prompts, same model, same iterations. So differences in scores reflect actual differences in AI visibility, not differences in measurement.
(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.
quality × meta × stability × share × recognition × 100. Read the full LBA methodology →