Leading: Kubernetes (50.2%)
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| DigitalOcean wins | 125 |
| Kubernetes wins | 126 |
| Abstains (no tool) | 305 |
| Other tool chosen | 27516 |
| Decisive cases | 251 |
| DigitalOcean win rate (unweighted) | 49.8% |
| 95% CI | 43.7% - 55.9% |
| DigitalOcean win rate (weighted) | 49.8% |
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| Model | Tier | DigitalOcean | Kubernetes | None | Other | A rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 4 Maverick | Frontier | 31 | 72 | 1 | 1366 | 30% |
| Llama 4 Scout | Small | 72 | 21 | 44 | 1328 | 77% |
| MiniMax M2.7 | Frontier | 12 | 5 | 8 | 1038 | 71% |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | Small | 3 | 7 | 31 | 1027 | 30% |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Small | 0 | 10 | 1 | 1421 | 0% |
| GPT 5.4 | Frontier | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1063 | 14% |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | Frontier | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1068 | 0% |
| MiMo V2 Pro | Frontier | 2 | 0 | 19 | 1049 | 100% |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | Mid | 1 | 0 | 20 | 1045 | 100% |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | Frontier | 1 | 0 | 1 | 396 | 100% |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | Frontier | 1 | 0 | 17 | 1450 | 100% |
| MiMo V2.5 Pro | Frontier | 1 | 0 | 3 | 394 | 100% |
| Kimi K2.5 | Frontier | 0 | 1 | 20 | 1026 | 0% |
| Mistral Small 4 | Mid | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1439 | 0% |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Frontier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 399 | n/a |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Frontier | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1469 | n/a |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 | Frontier | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1458 | n/a |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | Mid | 0 | 0 | 6 | 388 | n/a |
| Devstral 2 2512 | Mid | 0 | 0 | 24 | 1329 | n/a |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 398 | n/a |
| GLM 5 Turbo | Frontier | 0 | 0 | 47 | 1024 | n/a |
| GLM 5.2 | Frontier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 398 | n/a |
| GPT 5.3 Codex | Frontier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1467 | n/a |
| GPT 5.4 Mini | Mid | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1440 | n/a |
| GPT 5.5 | Frontier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 399 | n/a |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | Frontier | 0 | 0 | 1 | 396 | n/a |
| MiniMax M3 | Frontier | 0 | 0 | 1 | 397 | n/a |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | Mid | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1444 | n/a |
| Prompt | Tier | DigitalOcean | Kubernetes | None | Other | A rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| blog-platform-cms | Beginner | 63 | 0 | 1 | 470 | 100% |
| blog-platform-cms | Intermediate | 44 | 0 | 1 | 490 | 100% |
| project-management-tool | Advanced | 0 | 39 | 20 | 476 | 0% |
| social-media-platform | Advanced | 0 | 37 | 8 | 489 | 0% |
| blog-platform-cms | Advanced | 18 | 0 | 6 | 508 | 100% |
| chat-application | Advanced | 0 | 15 | 16 | 505 | 0% |
| ecommerce-store | Advanced | 0 | 8 | 3 | 525 | 0% |
| job-board | Advanced | 0 | 6 | 4 | 526 | 0% |
| url-shortener | Advanced | 0 | 6 | 2 | 527 | 0% |
| full-stack-web-app | Advanced | 0 | 5 | 1 | 128 | 0% |
| ai-agent-application | Advanced | 0 | 4 | 2 | 132 | 0% |
| social-media-platform | Intermediate | 0 | 3 | 2 | 530 | 0% |
| multi-tenant-crm | Advanced | 0 | 2 | 15 | 520 | 0% |
| weather-dashboard | Advanced | 0 | 1 | 0 | 533 | 0% |
| ai-agent-application | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138 | n/a |
| ai-agent-application | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 1 | 137 | n/a |
| ai-revenue-ops-copilot | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 2 | 525 | n/a |
| ai-revenue-ops-copilot | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 2 | 527 | n/a |
| ai-revenue-ops-copilot | Advanced | 0 | 0 | 14 | 493 | n/a |
| ai-support-agent-platform | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 6 | 525 | n/a |
| ai-support-agent-platform | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 2 | 534 | n/a |
| ai-support-agent-platform | Advanced | 0 | 0 | 2 | 524 | n/a |
| chat-application | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 0 | 532 | n/a |
| chat-application | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 4 | 533 | n/a |
| documentation-site | Advanced | 0 | 0 | 0 | 535 | n/a |
| documentation-site | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 16 | 519 | n/a |
| documentation-site | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 12 | 525 | n/a |
| ecommerce-store | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 2 | 535 | n/a |
| ecommerce-store | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 20 | 515 | n/a |
| fitness-tracking-app | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 1 | 536 | n/a |
| fitness-tracking-app | Advanced | 0 | 0 | 4 | 529 | n/a |
| fitness-tracking-app | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 4 | 527 | n/a |
| full-stack-web-app | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138 | n/a |
| full-stack-web-app | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138 | n/a |
| job-board | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 1 | 536 | n/a |
| job-board | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 1 | 536 | n/a |
| multi-tenant-crm | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 41 | 493 | n/a |
| multi-tenant-crm | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 2 | 528 | n/a |
| online-learning-platform | Advanced | 0 | 0 | 4 | 530 | n/a |
| online-learning-platform | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 14 | 523 | n/a |
| online-learning-platform | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 5 | 532 | n/a |
| project-management-tool | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 0 | 535 | n/a |
| project-management-tool | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 3 | 531 | n/a |
| real-estate-website | Advanced | 0 | 0 | 2 | 532 | n/a |
| real-estate-website | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 2 | 535 | n/a |
| real-estate-website | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 537 | n/a |
| restaurant-reservation-system | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 2 | 535 | n/a |
| restaurant-reservation-system | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 537 | n/a |
| restaurant-reservation-system | Advanced | 0 | 0 | 3 | 534 | n/a |
| saas-application | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 1 | 536 | n/a |
| saas-application | Advanced | 0 | 0 | 25 | 511 | n/a |
| saas-application | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 3 | 534 | n/a |
| social-media-platform | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 9 | 527 | n/a |
| url-shortener | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 6 | 531 | n/a |
| url-shortener | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 2 | 534 | n/a |
| weather-dashboard | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 3 | 534 | n/a |
| weather-dashboard | Intermediate | 0 | 0 | 3 | 531 | n/a |
