Cloud Hosting For Web Apps: which providers does ChatGPT name?

We asked ChatGPT this question and recorded which providers it names in its answer. The order is the order they were named in.

Measured on 2026-09-20

Providers named

1. Rank 1Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2. Rank 2Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
3. Rank 3Microsoft Azure
4. Rank 4DigitalOcean
5. Rank 5Vercel
6. Rank 6Render
7. Rank 7Railway
8. Rank 8Cloudflare Pages / Cloudflare Workers
9. Rank 9Hetzner
10. Rank 10DeployBasealso citedCheck deploybase.io
11. Rank 11Netlify

Sources cited

These are the domains ChatGPT drew on as evidence. They are not the same as the providers it names: a source can be a comparison site, an article or a university.

1. Rank 1itechguides.comCheck itechguides.com
2. Rank 2digitalocean.comCheck digitalocean.com
3. Rank 3rottenwifi.comCheck rottenwifi.com
4. Rank 4hostinger.comCheck hostinger.com
5. Rank 5dirjournal.comCheck dirjournal.com
6. Rank 6deploybase.ioCheck deploybase.io