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Render vs DigitalOcean: 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. Render is named in 18 of 29 answers (62%); DigitalOcean in 16 (55%).

Render

62%

named in 18 of 29 answers

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

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.