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The most visible cloud hosting platforms in Netherlands, October 2026

October 2026 · 15 questions asked from Netherlands in Dutch and English · ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode · 60 answers read

AI: how the engines answer the board's questions; Search: Google's top 10 for the questions' demand keywords; All: both combined. How the Heralded Score works.

Leader

AWS

47%of answers name it

Most cited source

google.com

20citations

From ChatGPT

Where engines disagree most

Render

1/4engines put it in their top three

Top three on Google AI Mode, not on Gemini, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT

Brands

Rank Brand Rank change Heralded Score Score trend Mentioned Recommended By engine Mentioned by Change
21 Netlify US New entry 16 , range 5–33
16
  • : score 16 · #21
 10% 5% None First reading
22 Hostinger LT New entry 14 , range 2–46
14
  • : score 14 · #22
 5% 5% None First reading
23 mijn.host NL New entry 13 , range 2–47
13
  • : score 13 · #23
 8% 2% None First reading
24 Cloudflare Workers US New entry 13 , range 4–32
13
  • : score 13 · #24
 12% 1% None First reading
= 25 Amazon EC2 US New entry 13 , range 0–55
13
  • : score 13 · #25
 4% 0% First reading
= 25 Oracle Cloud US New entry 13 , range 0–70
13
  • : score 13 · #25
 1% 0% None First reading
27 OVHcloud FR New entry 12 , range 1–45
12
  • : score 12 · #27
 6% 2% None First reading
28 Leaseweb NL New entry 12 , range 0–59
12
  • : score 12 · #28
 1% 1% None First reading
29 Vultr US New entry 12 , range 3–36
12
  • : score 12 · #29
 8% 4% None First reading
30 Kamatera US New entry 11 , range 0–54
11
  • : score 11 · #30
 2% 1% 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.

This month's moves

First reading. No comparable previous month yet.

Biggest risers

No clear rise.

Biggest fallers

No clear fall.

New entries

157 new entries

Drop-outs

No drop-outs.

Most cited sources

Rank Source Type Cited in Engines Pages cited Brands its pages mention
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15 vercel.com Brand site 5.0% 1 of 4 2 1
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17Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.
18 cloud86.io Brand site 3.3% 1 of 4 3 Not read
19 elementor.com Brand site 3.3% 1 of 4 3 Not read
20Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.

The questions, and who wins each

QuestionLanguageWins it
best cloud hosting platform for independent developers English DigitalOcean, Railway and Vercel, tied
cloud hosting for small software teams English Fly.io
how can a developer host an app without managing servers English AWS, Cloudflare Pages, Firebase, Microsoft Azure, Netlify and Vercel, tied
how to keep a startup website online as traffic grows English AWS
managed cloud hosting vs self-managed servers for startups English No brand recommended

Each engine's top three

Method

For the AI side, 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