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Hosting and PaaS: September 2026
The final September 2026 standings for “Where should I host my app?”. These numbers are fixed and can be cited by permalink. See the current standings.
AI share of voice · September 2026
568 sampled answers · 10 models
- 1Railway▼ 22.90.2%Kimi K2.6—
- 2Render▼ 24.90.2%Kimi K2.6—
- 3Cloudflare▼ 5.20%not named this month—
- 4Fly.io▼ 20.30%not named this month—
- 5Netlify▼ 21.10%not named this month—
- 6Vercel▼ 25.70%not named this month—
Biggest mover: Vercel ▼ 25.7 pts vs the previous month
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 10 AI models, Railway is named in 0.2% of answers about hosting and paas (1 of 10 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; 568 answers across 4 probe runs fed this month.