Cloud hosting · RankedDigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets is a cloud hosting product from DigitalOcean · digitalocean.com ↗
Leads at small business. Ranked 6 of 65 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is Amazon Web Services at 9%.
Microsoft Azure is first at 29%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Amazon Web Services is first at 45%.
Why models recommend it
“consider alternative cloud hosting providers that offer more transparent pricing and better customer support, such as DigitalOcean, Ionos, and HostColor.com”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · first choice
“either a managed provider like Cloudways or Atlantic.Net, or a simplified hyperscaler approach (DigitalOcean or Linode) offers the best balance”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Direct question · first choice
“Best Overall Value & Predictable Pricing ... DigitalOcean ... Flat, predictable monthly billing with clear resource limits.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“DigitalOcean or Vultr are often the best starting points due to their simplicity, affordability, and good performance”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid hyperspecialized ones like Alibaba or DigitalOcean”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
“many users complain that their support is limited to ticket-based systems with slow response times during outages”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as DigitalOcean Droplets, over the 136 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 113 | 33 | Compare → | |
| 87 | 6 | View → | |
| 74 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 66 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 65 | 17 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 3 | View → | |
| 36 | 3 | View → | |
| 34 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 32 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 27 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of DigitalOcean Droplets →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on DigitalOcean Droplets's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- AI/ML
- Hosting
- atl1, ric1, mkc1, mem1, NYC3
- Also from DigitalOcean
- DigitalOcean App Platform, DigitalOcean CSPM, DigitalOcean Container Registry, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, DigitalOcean Kubernetes – DOKS, DigitalOcean Load Balancer and 6 more
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 109 of the 136 answers that named DigitalOcean Droplets and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
181 of the 225 domain citations in answers naming DigitalOcean Droplets came from a third party's page. Nineteen were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |