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The most visible 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

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Brands

Rank Brand Heralded Score Mentioned Recommended By engine Mentioned by Change
1 AWS US 95 , range 85–98 100% 83% First reading
2 Google Cloud US 86 , range 74–93 92% 63% First reading
3 Microsoft Azure US 85 , range 73–92 88% 63% First reading
4 DigitalOcean US 73 , range 49–84 67% 46% First reading
5 Hetzner DE 50 , range 36–74 38% 38% First reading
6 Cloudflare US 37 , range 26–55 38% 8% First reading
7 Vultr US 27 , range 13–44 13% 13% First reading
= 8 Akamai Linode US 16 , range 3–37 13% 0% First reading
= 8 Oracle Cloud US 16 , range 3–37 13% 0% First reading
– Alibaba Cloud CN Too few answers 0% 0% 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

Rank Source Type Cited in Engines Pages cited Brands its pages mention
1 google.com Brand site 54.2% 1 of 4 22 7
2 amazon.com Brand site 54.2% 1 of 4 18 3
3 digitalocean.com Brand site 33.3% 1 of 4 14 12
4 microsoft.com Brand site 41.7% 1 of 4 15 2
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7 hetzner.com Brand site 16.7% 1 of 4 5 1
8Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.
9 bunny.net Vendor site 8.3% 1 of 4 1 0
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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.

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