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Cloudways is a managed cloud hosting service that works as a management layer on top of cloud infrastructure, letting users choose their underlying cloud provider · cloudways.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
DigitalOcean Droplets is first at 55%.
Microsoft Azure is first at 29%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
No model named it for this buyer.
Why models recommend it
“either a managed provider like Cloudways or Atlantic.Net”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Direct question · first choice
“Choose Cloudways when ease of administration is more important than maximum infrastructure control.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Described as the best overall cloud provider starting from $14.00/month with managed services”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Direct question · alternative
“Managed cloud hosting platforms like Cloudways (which aggregates multiple providers)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cloudways, over the 28 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 22 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 21 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 13 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 13 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 9 | 2 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Cloudways →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cloudways's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- SMBs, agencies, developers, ecommerce, or online business
- Price stated
- Get 30% off on all plans.
- Starting price
- 25
- Free plan or trial
- 3-day free trial, no credit card needed
- Certifications
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS
- Hosting
- over 200 countries, 150+ data center across the globe, 50+ countries, New York, Amsterdam, Bangalore, Frankfurt, London
- Customers named
- Guru SEO Services
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 26 of the 28 answers that named Cloudways and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-eight of the seventy-eight domain citations in answers naming Cloudways came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison | 49 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 12 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 8 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 5 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 4 | undated | |||
| Case study | 1 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cloudways.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.