Evidence floor met in this release.
Published segment leaderboard
AI Infrastructure: How buyers choose in the Machine Relations Index
This leaderboard uses only the AI Infrastructure / How buyers choose segment denominator: 270 observed answer runs across 13 dates.
Segment-specific denominator. Not the overall domain denominator.
Release floor: 7 dates.
Only released domains with evidence in this exact segment.
Leaderboard
Segment-specific cited sources
Rates, runs and rank are the producer's segment-specific values. Overall domain rates and engine breadth are not used as category rates.
| Rank | Source | Source role | Citation rate | Cited runs | Observed runs | Run dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 of 416 | Arxiv.orgarxiv.org | Academic and government source | 22.22% | 60 | 270 | 13 |
| #2 of 416 | Mediummedium.com | Community and social platform | 15.19% | 41 | 270 | 13 |
| #3 of 416 | Gmicloud.aigmicloud.ai | Other observed source | 12.59% | 34 | 270 | 13 |
| #4 of 416 | YouTubeyoutube.com | Search or media platform | 11.85% | 32 | 270 | 13 |
| #5 of 416 | Github.comgithub.com | Community and social platform | 10.74% | 29 | 270 | 13 |
| #6 of 416 | Nvidia.comnvidia.com | Vendor-owned source | 10.74% | 29 | 270 | 13 |
| #7 of 416 | Spheron.networkspheron.network | Other observed source | 10.00% | 27 | 270 | 13 |
| #8 of 416 | Dev.todev.to | Community and social platform | 9.26% | 25 | 270 | 13 |
| #9 of 416 | Milvus.iomilvus.io | Other observed source | 9.26% | 25 | 270 | 13 |
| #10 of 416 | Runpod.iorunpod.io | Other observed source | 7.04% | 19 | 270 | 13 |
| #11 of 416 | Redditreddit.com | Community and social platform | 6.67% | 18 | 270 | 13 |
| #12 of 416 | Superlinked.comsuperlinked.com | Other observed source | 6.67% | 18 | 270 | 13 |
| #13 of 416 | Bentoml.combentoml.com | Other observed source | 6.30% | 17 | 270 | 13 |
| #14 of 416 | Microsoft.commicrosoft.com | Vendor-owned source | 6.30% | 17 | 270 | 13 |
| #15 of 416 | Pecollective.compecollective.com | Other observed source | 6.30% | 17 | 270 | 13 |
| #16 of 416 | Stackai.comstackai.com | Other observed source | 6.30% | 17 | 270 | 13 |
| #17 of 416 | LinkedInlinkedin.com | Community and social platform | 5.93% | 16 | 270 | 13 |
| #18 of 416 | Zilliz.comzilliz.com | Other observed source | 5.93% | 16 | 270 | 13 |
| #19 of 416 | Databricks.comdatabricks.com | Vendor-owned source | 5.56% | 15 | 270 | 13 |
| #20 of 416 | Llamaindex.aillamaindex.ai | Other observed source | 5.56% | 15 | 270 | 13 |
| #21 of 416 | Xfinit.roxfinit.ro | Other observed source | 5.56% | 15 | 270 | 13 |
| #22 of 416 | Huggingface.cohuggingface.co | Other observed source | 5.19% | 14 | 270 | 13 |
| #23 of 416 | Inworld.aiinworld.ai | Other observed source | 5.19% | 14 | 270 | 13 |
| #24 of 416 | Openai.comopenai.com | Vendor-owned source | 5.19% | 14 | 270 | 13 |
| #25 of 416 | Digitalocean.comdigitalocean.com | Other observed source | 4.81% | 13 | 270 | 13 |
| #26 of 416 | Github.iogithub.io | Other observed source | 4.81% | 13 | 270 | 13 |
| #27 of 416 | Jimmyresearch.comjimmyresearch.com | Other observed source | 4.81% | 13 | 270 | 13 |
| #28 of 416 | Redis.ioredis.io | Other observed source | 4.81% | 13 | 270 | 13 |
| #29 of 416 | Substack.comsubstack.com | Community and social platform | 4.81% | 13 | 270 | 13 |
| #30 of 416 | Greennode.aigreennode.ai | Other observed source | 4.44% | 12 | 270 | 13 |
| #31 of 416 | Loadforge.comloadforge.com | Other observed source | 4.44% | 12 | 270 | 13 |
| #32 of 416 | Langchain.comlangchain.com | Other observed source | 4.07% | 11 | 270 | 13 |
| #33 of 416 | Qdrant.techqdrant.tech | Search or media platform | 4.07% | 11 | 270 | 13 |
| #34 of 416 | Apxml.comapxml.com | Other observed source | 3.70% | 10 | 270 | 13 |
| #35 of 416 | Hivenet.comhivenet.com | Other observed source | 3.70% | 10 | 270 | 13 |
| #36 of 416 | Ibl.aiibl.ai | Other observed source | 3.70% | 10 | 270 | 13 |
| #37 of 416 | Meilisearch.commeilisearch.com | Search or media platform | 3.70% | 10 | 270 | 13 |
| #38 of 416 | Modal.commodal.com | Other observed source | 3.70% | 10 | 270 | 13 |
| #39 of 416 | Parasail.ioparasail.io | Other observed source | 3.70% | 10 | 270 | 13 |
| #40 of 416 | Pinecone.iopinecone.io | Other observed source | 3.70% | 10 | 270 | 13 |
| #41 of 416 | Docuware.comdocuware.com | Other observed source | 3.33% | 9 | 270 | 13 |
| #42 of 416 | Towardsai.nettowardsai.net | Analyst and consulting research | 3.33% | 9 | 270 | 13 |
| #43 of 416 | Zenml.iozenml.io | Other observed source | 3.33% | 9 | 270 | 13 |
| #44 of 416 | Airbyte.comairbyte.com | Other observed source | 2.96% | 8 | 270 | 13 |
| #45 of 416 | Amazon.comamazon.com | Other observed source | 2.96% | 8 | 270 | 13 |
| #46 of 416 | Deepinfra.comdeepinfra.com | Other observed source | 2.96% | 8 | 270 | 13 |
| #47 of 416 | Elastic.coelastic.co | Other observed source | 2.96% | 8 | 270 | 13 |
| #48 of 416 | Mixpeek.commixpeek.com | Other observed source | 2.96% | 8 | 270 | 13 |
| #49 of 416 | Mongodb.commongodb.com | Vendor-owned source | 2.96% | 8 | 270 | 13 |
| #50 of 416 | Tigerdata.comtigerdata.com | Other observed source | 2.96% | 8 | 270 | 13 |
| #51 of 416 | Flex.aiflex.ai | Other observed source | 2.59% | 7 | 270 | 13 |
| #52 of 416 | Hyperstack.cloudhyperstack.cloud | Other observed source | 2.59% | 7 | 270 | 13 |
| #53 of 416 | Unstructured.iounstructured.io | Vendor-owned source | 2.59% | 7 | 270 | 13 |
| #54 of 416 | Vercel.comvercel.com | Vendor-owned source | 2.59% | 7 | 270 | 13 |
| #55 of 416 | AIMultipleaimultiple.com | Editorial publication | 2.22% | 6 | 270 | 13 |
| #56 of 416 | Beam.cloudbeam.cloud | Other observed source | 2.22% | 6 | 270 | 13 |
| #57 of 416 | Cloudzy.comcloudzy.com | Other observed source | 2.22% | 6 | 270 | 13 |
| #58 of 416 | Docuvantage.comdocuvantage.com | Other observed source | 2.22% | 6 | 270 | 13 |
| #59 of 416 | Futureagi.comfutureagi.com | Other observed source | 2.22% | 6 | 270 | 13 |
| #60 of 416 | Inference.netinference.net | Other observed source | 2.22% | 6 | 270 | 13 |
| #61 of 416 | Mirantis.commirantis.com | Other observed source | 2.22% | 6 | 270 | 13 |
| #62 of 416 | Openrouter.aiopenrouter.ai | Other observed source | 2.22% | 6 | 270 | 13 |
| #63 of 416 | Splunk.comsplunk.com | Vendor-owned source | 2.22% | 6 | 270 | 13 |
| #64 of 416 | Tensoria.frtensoria.fr | Other observed source | 2.22% | 6 | 270 | 13 |
| #65 of 416 | Weaviate.ioweaviate.io | Other observed source | 2.22% | 6 | 270 | 13 |
| #66 of 416 | Wikipediawikipedia.org | Academic and government source | 2.22% | 6 | 270 | 13 |
| #67 of 416 | Buildmvpfast.combuildmvpfast.com | Other observed source | 1.85% | 5 | 270 | 13 |
| #68 of 416 | Buildwithmatija.combuildwithmatija.com | Other observed source | 1.85% | 5 | 270 | 13 |
| #69 of 416 | Claude.comclaude.com | Other observed source | 1.85% | 5 | 270 | 13 |
| #70 of 416 | Datacamp.comdatacamp.com | Other observed source | 1.85% | 5 | 270 | 13 |
| #71 of 416 | Gigagpu.comgigagpu.com | Other observed source | 1.85% | 5 | 270 | 13 |
| #72 of 416 | Ibm.comibm.com | Vendor-owned source | 1.85% | 5 | 270 | 13 |
| #73 of 416 | Lyceum.technologylyceum.technology | Other observed source | 1.85% | 5 | 270 | 13 |
| #74 of 416 | Mastra.aimastra.ai | Other observed source | 1.85% | 5 | 270 | 13 |
| #75 of 416 | Novita.ainovita.ai | Other observed source | 1.85% | 5 | 270 | 13 |
| #76 of 416 | Openlayer.comopenlayer.com | Other observed source | 1.85% | 5 | 270 | 13 |
| #77 of 416 | Voyageai.comvoyageai.com | Other observed source | 1.85% | 5 | 270 | 13 |
| #78 of 416 | Y Combinatorycombinator.com | Community and social platform | 1.85% | 5 | 270 | 13 |
| #79 of 416 | You.comyou.com | Search or media platform | 1.85% | 5 | 270 | 13 |
| #80 of 416 | Blaxel.aiblaxel.ai | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #81 of 416 | Cohere.comcohere.com | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #82 of 416 | daily.devdaily.dev | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #83 of 416 | Emergentmind.comemergentmind.com | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #84 of 416 | Firecrawl.devfirecrawl.dev | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #85 of 416 | Fireworks.aifireworks.ai | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #86 of 416 | Generalcompute.comgeneralcompute.com | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #87 of 416 | Gopenai.comgopenai.com | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #88 of 416 | Hatchworks.comhatchworks.com | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #89 of 416 | Innovativeais.cominnovativeais.com | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #90 of 416 | Introl.comintrol.com | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #91 of 416 | Llmapi.aillmapi.ai | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #92 of 416 | Localtonet.comlocaltonet.com | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #93 of 416 | Maxoperf.commaxoperf.com | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #94 of 416 | Meta.aimeta.ai | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #95 of 416 | Openhands.devopenhands.dev | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #96 of 416 | Openwebui.comopenwebui.com | Vendor-owned source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #97 of 416 | Oracle.comoracle.com | Vendor-owned source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #98 of 416 | Promptmetrics.devpromptmetrics.dev | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #99 of 416 | Rtcleague.comrtcleague.com | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
| #100 of 416 | Supermemory.aisupermemory.ai | Other observed source | 1.48% | 4 | 270 | 13 |
Showing the first 100 rows from 416 observed domains.
Cite this
Machine Relations Index (MRI), Machine Relations Research — machinerelations.ai. AI Infrastructure / How buyers choose: 416 observed source domains in the leaderboard, measured on 270 observed runs across 13 distinct run dates, 2026-05-10 to 2026-11-02. Release mri_score_v2.1+2026-11-02+f9aaeca0db15. https://machinerelations.ai/index/categories/ai-infrastructure/how_choose. CC BY 4.0.Parrott, J. (2026). AI Infrastructure / How buyers choose in the Machine Relations Index (Version mri_score_v2.1+2026-11-02+f9aaeca0db15) [Data set]. Machine Relations Research. https://machinerelations.ai/index/categories/ai-infrastructure/how_choose https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23652423@misc{parrott2026mriaiinfrastructurehowchoose,
author = {Parrott, Jaxon},
title = {AI Infrastructure / How buyers choose in the Machine Relations Index},
year = {2026},
version = {mri\_score\_v2.1+2026-11-02+f9aaeca0db15},
publisher = {Machine Relations Research},
url = {https://machinerelations.ai/index/categories/ai-infrastructure/how_choose},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23652423},
license = {CC-BY-4.0},
note = {Machine Relations Index (MRI), Machine Relations Research — machinerelations.ai}
}Release and boundary
What this segment measures
Published November 2, 2026. The observation window runs May 10, 2026 to November 2, 2026. Methodology v2.1.
MRI measures observed root-domain citations inside monitored prompts. Segment rates are conditional on this sample and do not claim recommendation quality, traffic, placement availability, or commercial performance.