AI Recommendation Index

Which hosting platforms does AI recommend?

October 2026. We asked ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews the same 20 buyer questions, as a buyer in the US, and counted the questions where each product was recommended.

#ProductRecommended in
1Render17 of 20 questions141514141514
2Railway16 of 20 questions8131181311
3AWS16 of 20 questions13981398
4Vercel13 of 20 questions1091110911
5DigitalOcean13 of 20 questions21182118
6Fly.io12 of 20 questions81158115
7Netlify11 of 20 questions498498
8Hetzner11 of 20 questions21132113
9Google Cloud Run10 of 20 questions885885
10Cloudflare10 of 20 questions844844
11Railway8 of 20 questions441441
12Microsoft Azure7 of 20 questions530530
13GitHub6 of 20 questions322322
14Cloudflare Pages5 of 20 questions234234
15Linode5 of 20 questions043043
16Heroku5 of 20 questions133133
17Coolify5 of 20 questions041041
18Supabase3 of 20 questions132132
19Cloudflare Workers3 of 20 questions112112
20Docker3 of 20 questions030030
21Redis2 of 20 questions121121
22Neon2 of 20 questions111111
23GitHub Pages2 of 20 questions012012
24Firebase2 of 20 questions011011
25Hostinger2 of 20 questions002002

Not on the list? Check your brand free.

See which engines recommend a competitor instead of you, for the questions your buyers ask.

https://
The 20 questions we ask every month
  1. What's the best hosting platform for a Next.js app?
  2. Where should a solo developer deploy a side project for free or cheap?
  3. What's the best platform to deploy a full-stack app with a backend and a database?
  4. Which hosting platform is best for a startup that expects to scale?
  5. What's the cheapest way to host a static website with a custom domain?
  6. What's the best place to deploy a Docker container without managing servers?
  7. Which hosting platform has the best preview deployments for pull requests?
  8. What's the best platform to host a Python API?
  9. Where should I host a Node.js backend with background jobs?
  10. Which edge hosting platform gives the fastest load times worldwide?
  11. What's a cheaper hosting platform for a team surprised by its bandwidth bill?
  12. What's the best way for a small team to stop managing its own AWS setup?
  13. Which hosting platform is best for an AI app that calls LLM APIs and streams responses?
  14. What's the best hosting for a Ruby on Rails app?
  15. Which platform is best for hosting WebSockets and real-time apps?
  16. Where should an agency host dozens of small client sites?
  17. What's the best hosting platform with built-in cron jobs and queues?
  18. Which hosting platform has the most predictable pricing for a growing SaaS?
  19. What's the best place to host a Go service?
  20. Which hosting platform is easiest to deploy to straight from a GitHub repo?

One answer per engine per question, collected on one day. AI answers vary between runs and people, so read this as a monthly snapshot. See the methodology.