AI Shortlist / DevTools
cloud app hosting Who ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini name when B2B buyers ask about cloud app hosting.
12 prompts · 36 answers · Data as of Oct 26, 2026, 11:46 PM ET · Methodology
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SHARE OF VOICE
Who AI recommends All engines ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini
29/36 · 81%· score 86 28/36 · 78%· score 73 3 Fly.io
19/36 · 53%· score 54 18/36 · 50%· score 64 5 DigitalOcean App Platform
14/36 · 39%· score 42 12/36 · 33%· score 53 7 Google Cloud Run
12/36 · 33%· score 37 8 GCP
9/36 · 25%· score 22 9/36 · 25%· score 45 9/36 · 25%· score 41 11 Netlify
8/36 · 22%· score 23 8/36 · 22%· score 36 7/36 · 19%· score 31 14 Microsoft Azure
6/36 · 17%· score 24 5/36 · 14%· score 30 Mentions out of 36 successful answers across all three engines.
BUYER PROMPTS
What we asked, ranked by buyer intent These are the questions buyers type when they are close to choosing a tool, not when they are just learning. We rank them by how close the wording is to a purchase: price and budget questions first, then switching and "alternatives to" questions, then head-to-head comparisons, then "best tool for my kind of team". Each prompt was asked once in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, with no login, chat history or personalization. Full methodology
#1 · Pricing or budget shortlist cheapest cloud hosting for side projects and startups #2 · Active switch or alternatives search Vercel alternatives for backend apps #3 · Active switch or alternatives search best Heroku alternatives 2026 #4 · Head-to-head comparison Fly.io vs other app hosting platforms #5 · Comparison shopping top developer cloud platforms compared #6 · Segment-specific best-of shortlist best PaaS for deploying Docker containers #7 · Segment-specific best-of shortlist best alternative to AWS for small teams #8 · Segment-specific best-of shortlist best managed hosting for Node.js and Python apps #9 · Segment-specific best-of shortlist best platform to deploy a full-stack app for startups #10 · Category best-of shortlist best app hosting with managed databases #11 · Category best-of shortlist best cloud platform to host AI agents and apps #12 · Category best-of shortlist best platform to deploy apps without DevOps COMPARE
Head-to-head in this niche Brand A Select Render Railway Fly.io Vercel DigitalOcean App Platform Google Cloud Run DigitalOcean Heroku Hetzner GCP Northflank Netlify Coolify Microsoft Azure Dokploy Cloudflare Cloudflare Workers Supabase Managed PostgreSQL Vercel / Netlify Vultr Neon Vertex AI Encore Modal Google Cloud Google Cloud Platform Amazon Web Services Coolify or Dokploy Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Render / Railway Azure OpenAI Service Azure Kubernetes Service Google Kubernetes Engine Coolify / Dokploy Brand B Select Render Railway Fly.io Vercel DigitalOcean App Platform Google Cloud Run DigitalOcean Heroku Hetzner GCP Northflank Netlify Coolify Microsoft Azure Dokploy Cloudflare Cloudflare Workers Supabase Managed PostgreSQL Vercel / Netlify Vultr Neon Vertex AI Encore Modal Google Cloud Google Cloud Platform Amazon Web Services Coolify or Dokploy Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Render / Railway Azure OpenAI Service Azure Kubernetes Service Google Kubernetes Engine Coolify / Dokploy Pick two brands to see mentions per engine and shared prompts.
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METHODOLOGY
Engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini. This niche: 12 prompts, 36 successful answers. Tested 2026-10-26 to 2026-10-27. A mention is one successful answer that names the brand. Share of voice is mentions divided by total successful answers in the niche. Results are a point-in-time snapshot of model answers, not a traffic ranking.