What AI recommends for hosting and paas
When developers ask “Where should I host my app?”, this is what Claude · Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude · Claude Opus 4.8, Claude · Claude Sonnet 4.6, ChatGPT, Gemini, Venice · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, Venice · Gemini 3.6 Flash, Venice · Kimi K2.6, Venice · Llama 3.3 70B, Venice · Qwen 3.7 Plus and Venice · GLM 5.2 answer. Where should I host this? is among the most asked buying questions in software, and the answer a model gives decides real deployments daily. This board tracks the hosting shortlist each model offers and how it compares with the loud, opinionated hosting debate developers run in public.
Standings frozen August 2026 · methodology · View as Markdown
AI share of voice · August 2026
809 sampled answers · 11 models
- 1Vercelnew25.7%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · Kimi K2.6 · Llama 3.3 70B · GLM 5.2—
- 2Rendernew25.1%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · Llama 3.3 70B · GLM 5.2—
- 3Railwaynew23.1%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2—
- 4Netlifynew21.1%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · Kimi K2.6 · Llama 3.3 70B · GLM 5.2—
- 5Fly.ionew20.3%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2—
- 6Cloudflarenew5.2%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2—
Share of voice weights each compared model equally: it is the average, across the models, of how often each one named the tool in its own answers, so a model probed more than another can't skew it. Model chips list which AI models named it this month; the pulse is the sentiment of that month's developer mentions across Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Bluesky and more.
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Averaged equally across 11 AI models, Vercel is named in 25.7% of answers about hosting and paas (9 of 11 name it).
The 3 prompts behind these standings
- ›Where should I host my app? (recommendation)
- ›What are the best Heroku alternatives? (alternatives)
- ›Which platform is best for deploying a full-stack app? (recommendation)
Each prompt is sampled several times per model per probe because answers vary run to run; 809 answers across 9 probe runs fed this month.
Frequently asked questions
How is the hosting and paas ranking computed?
BackTalk asks Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity a fixed set of buyer questions about hosting and paas, several samples per prompt because answers vary run to run, then extracts which tools each answer recommends. A tool's share of voice is the percentage of all sampled answers that name it. The prompts, sample counts, and models are published on every page; the raw method is the same probe engine BackTalk customers run on their own brands.
How often do the standings update?
Monthly. The current month is a live preview that updates as new answers come in; once the month ends its standings are finalized and never change after that, so a cited number stays exactly what it was when you cited it. Past months keep their own permalink in the archive, and month-over-month deltas track who is rising and falling.
What does the developer pulse column mean?
BackTalk also listens where developers actually talk: Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Bluesky and more. The pulse column summarises the sentiment of that month's developer mentions for each ranked tool, which is how the board can show AI recommending a tool developers are souring on, or overlooking one they praise.
Is AI recommending your tool?
BackTalk runs these same probes for any product: your prompts, your competitors, your share of voice on your own keys, next to every public developer mention of your brand.
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