The most visible B2B cloud hosting platforms on ChatGPT, October 2026

October 2026 · 12 questions asked in English, worldwide · ChatGPT · 24 answers read

Leader

AWS

100%of answers name it

Most cited source

google.com

25citations

From ChatGPT

Where engines disagree most

One engine

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Brands

Rank Brand Heralded Score Mentioned Recommended By engine Mentioned by Change
1#1 overall AWS US 95 , range 85–98 100% 83% None First reading
2#2 overall Google Cloud US 86 , range 74–93 92% 63% None First reading
3#3 overall Microsoft Azure US 85 , range 73–92 88% 63% None First reading
4#4 overall DigitalOcean US 73 , range 49–84 67% 46% None First reading
5#5 overall Hetzner DE 50 , range 36–74 38% 38% None First reading
6#6 overall Cloudflare US 37 , range 26–55 38% 8% None First reading
7#7 overall Vultr US 27 , range 13–44 13% 13% None First reading
= 8#8 overall Akamai Linode US 16 , range 3–37 13% 0% None First reading
= 8#8 overall Oracle Cloud US 16 , range 3–37 13% 0% None First reading
– Alibaba Cloud CN Too few answers 0% 0% None First reading

“=” marks brands whose score ranges overlap, so the test cannot separate them. Every brand named in at least three answers is ranked. By engine has one dot per engine (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode), darker the more often it names the brand.

Most cited sources

No answer cited a source of this type (Review sites).

The questions, and who wins each

QuestionLanguageWins it
cloud hosting with the best support English AWS, Cloudways, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, Hetzner, Hostinger, Liquid Web, Microsoft Azure and ScalaHosting, tied
which cloud hosting do experts recommend English AWS, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, Hetzner and Microsoft Azure, tied

Each engine's top three

Method

Each month Heralded asks every engine the same buyer questions, twice each, and reads every answer. An answer counts 0 for a brand it leaves out, 50 for a brand it names and 100 for a brand it recommends, and the Heralded Score is built from those. A brand named in at least three answers gets a score and a place.

How the leaderboards are measured