When asked for the best cloud hosting provider, 6 AI assistants named 4 brands between them this month. AWS was named most often, followed by Google Cloud and DigitalOcean. One brand was named by every assistant that answered: AWS.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Google Cloud | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| DigitalOcean | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Microsoft Azure | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 4 brands, in this order: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean.
Choosing the best cloud hosting provider for a small business depends on several factors including budget, technical requirements, scalability, support, and specific features needed.
Perplexity
Named one brand, in this order: AWS.
There is no single best cloud hosting provider for every small business; the right choice depends on budget, technical comfort, and whether you need managed support, WordPress optimization, or compliance features.
Claude
Named 4 brands, in this order: DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure.
There's no single "best" option - it depends on your needs.
Grok
Named 3 brands, in this order: DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud.
DeepSeek
Named 4 brands, in this order: AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean.
There's no single "best" cloud host — it depends on what your small business actually needs.
Cohere
Named 3 brands, in this order: AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure.
Choosing the best cloud hosting provider for a small business depends on several factors, including your specific needs, budget, and technical requirements.
The questions asked
- What is the best cloud hosting provider for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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