Evidence floor met in this release.
Published segment leaderboard
AI Infrastructure: Is it worth it in the Machine Relations Index
This leaderboard uses only the AI Infrastructure / Is it worth it segment denominator: 269 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 404 | Atlan.comatlan.com | Vendor-owned source | 15.61% | 42 | 269 | 13 |
| #2 of 404 | Mediummedium.com | Community and social platform | 15.24% | 41 | 269 | 13 |
| #3 of 404 | Redditreddit.com | Community and social platform | 14.13% | 38 | 269 | 13 |
| #4 of 404 | Gmicloud.aigmicloud.ai | Other observed source | 12.27% | 33 | 269 | 13 |
| #5 of 404 | Arxiv.orgarxiv.org | Academic and government source | 11.15% | 30 | 269 | 13 |
| #6 of 404 | Chitikachitika.com | Editorial publication | 11.15% | 30 | 269 | 13 |
| #7 of 404 | LinkedInlinkedin.com | Community and social platform | 10.78% | 29 | 269 | 13 |
| #8 of 404 | Cudocompute.comcudocompute.com | Other observed source | 10.04% | 27 | 269 | 13 |
| #9 of 404 | Amazon.comamazon.com | Other observed source | 9.29% | 25 | 269 | 13 |
| #10 of 404 | Dev.todev.to | Community and social platform | 9.29% | 25 | 269 | 13 |
| #11 of 404 | YouTubeyoutube.com | Search or media platform | 8.92% | 24 | 269 | 13 |
| #12 of 404 | Customgpt.aicustomgpt.ai | Other observed source | 8.55% | 23 | 269 | 13 |
| #13 of 404 | Onyx.apponyx.app | Other observed source | 8.55% | 23 | 269 | 13 |
| #14 of 404 | Spheron.networkspheron.network | Other observed source | 7.06% | 19 | 269 | 13 |
| #15 of 404 | VentureBeatventurebeat.com | Editorial publication | 6.69% | 18 | 269 | 13 |
| #16 of 404 | Render.comrender.com | Other observed source | 6.32% | 17 | 269 | 13 |
| #17 of 404 | Truefoundry.comtruefoundry.com | Vendor-owned source | 6.32% | 17 | 269 | 13 |
| #18 of 404 | Percona.compercona.com | Other observed source | 5.95% | 16 | 269 | 13 |
| #19 of 404 | Sphereinc.comsphereinc.com | Other observed source | 5.95% | 16 | 269 | 13 |
| #20 of 404 | Redis.ioredis.io | Other observed source | 5.58% | 15 | 269 | 13 |
| #21 of 404 | Runpod.iorunpod.io | Other observed source | 5.58% | 15 | 269 | 13 |
| #22 of 404 | Aitooldiscovery.comaitooldiscovery.com | Other observed source | 5.20% | 14 | 269 | 13 |
| #23 of 404 | Digitalocean.comdigitalocean.com | Other observed source | 5.20% | 14 | 269 | 13 |
| #24 of 404 | Introl.comintrol.com | Other observed source | 4.83% | 13 | 269 | 13 |
| #25 of 404 | Alphacorp.aialphacorp.ai | Other observed source | 4.46% | 12 | 269 | 13 |
| #26 of 404 | Firecrawl.devfirecrawl.dev | Other observed source | 4.46% | 12 | 269 | 13 |
| #27 of 404 | Getmaxim.aigetmaxim.ai | Other observed source | 4.46% | 12 | 269 | 13 |
| #28 of 404 | Io.netio.net | Other observed source | 4.46% | 12 | 269 | 13 |
| #29 of 404 | Microsoft.commicrosoft.com | Vendor-owned source | 4.46% | 12 | 269 | 13 |
| #30 of 404 | Meilisearch.commeilisearch.com | Search or media platform | 4.09% | 11 | 269 | 13 |
| #31 of 404 | Spendark.comspendark.com | Other observed source | 4.09% | 11 | 269 | 13 |
| #32 of 404 | Corvex.aicorvex.ai | Other observed source | 3.72% | 10 | 269 | 13 |
| #33 of 404 | Kapa.aikapa.ai | Other observed source | 3.72% | 10 | 269 | 13 |
| #34 of 404 | Neuraltrust.aineuraltrust.ai | Other observed source | 3.72% | 10 | 269 | 13 |
| #35 of 404 | Premai.iopremai.io | Other observed source | 3.72% | 10 | 269 | 13 |
| #36 of 404 | Respan.airespan.ai | Other observed source | 3.72% | 10 | 269 | 13 |
| #37 of 404 | Adaptiverecall.comadaptiverecall.com | Other observed source | 3.35% | 9 | 269 | 13 |
| #38 of 404 | Aimprosoft.comaimprosoft.com | Other observed source | 3.35% | 9 | 269 | 13 |
| #39 of 404 | Ciopages.comciopages.com | Other observed source | 3.35% | 9 | 269 | 13 |
| #40 of 404 | Scylladb.comscylladb.com | Other observed source | 3.35% | 9 | 269 | 13 |
| #41 of 404 | Axiomlogica.comaxiomlogica.com | Other observed source | 2.97% | 8 | 269 | 13 |
| #42 of 404 | Gigaspaces.comgigaspaces.com | Other observed source | 2.97% | 8 | 269 | 13 |
| #43 of 404 | Gravitee.iogravitee.io | Other observed source | 2.97% | 8 | 269 | 13 |
| #44 of 404 | Lyceum.technologylyceum.technology | Other observed source | 2.97% | 8 | 269 | 13 |
| #45 of 404 | Portkey.aiportkey.ai | Other observed source | 2.97% | 8 | 269 | 13 |
| #46 of 404 | Tencentcloud.comtencentcloud.com | Other observed source | 2.97% | 8 | 269 | 13 |
| #47 of 404 | Computecomparison.comcomputecomparison.com | Other observed source | 2.60% | 7 | 269 | 13 |
| #48 of 404 | Gpusmith.comgpusmith.com | Other observed source | 2.60% | 7 | 269 | 13 |
| #49 of 404 | Kalviumlabs.aikalviumlabs.ai | Other observed source | 2.60% | 7 | 269 | 13 |
| #50 of 404 | Oracle.comoracle.com | Vendor-owned source | 2.60% | 7 | 269 | 13 |
| #51 of 404 | Scaler.comscaler.com | Other observed source | 2.60% | 7 | 269 | 13 |
| #52 of 404 | Towardsai.nettowardsai.net | Analyst and consulting research | 2.60% | 7 | 269 | 13 |
| #53 of 404 | Adhdecode.comadhdecode.com | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #54 of 404 | Artificial-intelligence-wiki.comartificial-intelligence-wiki.com | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #55 of 404 | Cake.aicake.ai | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #56 of 404 | Civo.comcivo.com | Vendor-owned source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #57 of 404 | Cloudzero.comcloudzero.com | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #58 of 404 | Confluent.ioconfluent.io | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #59 of 404 | Costbench.comcostbench.com | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #60 of 404 | Databricks.comdatabricks.com | Vendor-owned source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #61 of 404 | Flashquery.aiflashquery.ai | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #62 of 404 | Guptadeepak.comguptadeepak.com | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #63 of 404 | Hubspotusercontent-na1.nethubspotusercontent-na1.net | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #64 of 404 | Lakefs.iolakefs.io | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #65 of 404 | Nosana.comnosana.com | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #66 of 404 | Nvidia.comnvidia.com | Vendor-owned source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #67 of 404 | Pecollective.compecollective.com | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #68 of 404 | Semantic.iosemantic.io | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #69 of 404 | Thundercompute.comthundercompute.com | Other observed source | 2.23% | 6 | 269 | 13 |
| #70 of 404 | Appinventiv.comappinventiv.com | Other observed source | 1.86% | 5 | 269 | 13 |
| #71 of 404 | Axecompute.comaxecompute.com | Other observed source | 1.86% | 5 | 269 | 13 |
| #72 of 404 | Devtoollab.comdevtoollab.com | Other observed source | 1.86% | 5 | 269 | 13 |
| #73 of 404 | Gaurav.onegaurav.one | Other observed source | 1.86% | 5 | 269 | 13 |
| #74 of 404 | Jarvislabs.aijarvislabs.ai | Other observed source | 1.86% | 5 | 269 | 13 |
| #75 of 404 | Merge.devmerge.dev | Other observed source | 1.86% | 5 | 269 | 13 |
| #76 of 404 | Mlflow.orgmlflow.org | Vendor-owned source | 1.86% | 5 | 269 | 13 |
| #77 of 404 | Openkit.aiopenkit.ai | Other observed source | 1.86% | 5 | 269 | 13 |
| #78 of 404 | Progress.comprogress.com | Other observed source | 1.86% | 5 | 269 | 13 |
| #79 of 404 | Raftlabs.comraftlabs.com | Other observed source | 1.86% | 5 | 269 | 13 |
| #80 of 404 | Substack.comsubstack.com | Community and social platform | 1.86% | 5 | 269 | 13 |
| #81 of 404 | Vcluster.comvcluster.com | Other observed source | 1.86% | 5 | 269 | 13 |
| #82 of 404 | AI Flow Reviewaiflowreview.com | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #83 of 404 | Buildmvpfast.combuildmvpfast.com | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #84 of 404 | Cisco.comcisco.com | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #85 of 404 | Computeprices.comcomputeprices.com | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #86 of 404 | Datacamp.comdatacamp.com | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #87 of 404 | Edgewisely.comedgewisely.com | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #88 of 404 | Eltherion.comeltherion.com | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #89 of 404 | Github.comgithub.com | Community and social platform | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #90 of 404 | Hostinger.comhostinger.com | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #91 of 404 | Inferensys.cominferensys.com | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #92 of 404 | Infinispan.orginfinispan.org | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #93 of 404 | Leanopstech.comleanopstech.com | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #94 of 404 | LogicMonitorlogicmonitor.com | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #95 of 404 | Mastra.aimastra.ai | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #96 of 404 | Metacto.commetacto.com | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #97 of 404 | Mudassirkhan.memudassirkhan.me | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #98 of 404 | Niche.devniche.dev | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #99 of 404 | Northflank.comnorthflank.com | Vendor-owned source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
| #100 of 404 | Onesourcecloud.netonesourcecloud.net | Other observed source | 1.49% | 4 | 269 | 13 |
Showing the first 100 rows from 404 observed domains.
Cite this
Machine Relations Index (MRI), Machine Relations Research — machinerelations.ai. AI Infrastructure / Is it worth it: 404 observed source domains in the leaderboard, measured on 269 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/is_x_worth. CC BY 4.0.Parrott, J. (2026). AI Infrastructure / Is it worth it 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/is_x_worth https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23652423@misc{parrott2026mriaiinfrastructureisxworth,
author = {Parrott, Jaxon},
title = {AI Infrastructure / Is it worth it 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/is_x_worth},
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.