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DigitalOcean vs Railway: which one does AI recommend?

We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity 10 questions buyers ask about cloud hosting for small teams — 29 answers in total — and counted who got named. DigitalOcean is named in 16 of 29 answers (55%); Railway in 13 (45%).

DigitalOcean

55%

named in 16 of 29 answers

ChatGPT: named in 78% of answers

Gemini: named in 10% of answers

Perplexity: named in 80% of answers

Railway

45%

named in 13 of 29 answers

How they rank against everyone else

Render

62%

DigitalOcean

55%

Railway

45%

Hetzner Cloud

34%

AWS

24%

Hostinger

24%

Cloudways

21%

Fly.io

21%

Where does your product land?

Same 10 questions, your product, about a minute. No account.

Counts are mentions in AI answers, not endorsements, measured 2026-09-20. Nobody pays to appear.