When asked for the best managed WordPress hosting, 6 AI assistants named 8 brands between them this month. SiteGround was named most often, followed by WP Engine and Flywheel. 2 brands were named by every assistant that answered: SiteGround, WP Engine.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SiteGround | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| WP Engine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Flywheel | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Kinsta | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Bluehost | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | 3 of 6 |
| DreamPress | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Cloudways | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Pressable | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 6 brands, in this order: SiteGround, WP Engine, Flywheel, Kinsta, Bluehost, DreamPress.
When choosing the best managed WordPress hosting for a small business, several factors come into play including reliability, performance, customer support, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
Perplexity
Named 3 brands, in this order: Bluehost, SiteGround, WP Engine.
For a small business, the best managed WordPress hosting depends on what you value most: ease of use, all-in-one business tools, or premium support/performance.
Claude
Named 8 brands, in this order: WP Engine, Kinsta, Flywheel, SiteGround, Cloudways, Pressable, Bluehost, DreamPress.
Here are the top options worth considering:
Grok
Named 5 brands, in this order: SiteGround, WP Engine, Kinsta, Pressable, Flywheel.
It strikes the best balance of price, performance, ease of use, and support — which is exactly what small business owners need.
DeepSeek
Named 6 brands, in this order: WP Engine, Kinsta, Flywheel, Cloudways, DreamPress, SiteGround.
The "best" managed WordPress host depends on your specific needs—traffic volume, budget, technical comfort, and whether you need extras like email or ecommerce.
Cohere
Named 4 brands, in this order: WP Engine, Kinsta, Flywheel, SiteGround.
Choosing the best managed WordPress hosting for a small business depends on your specific needs, such as budget, scalability, performance, and support.
The questions asked
- What is the best managed WordPress hosting for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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See the GEO suiteHow this was measured
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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