5 categories · RankedHetzner
Hetzner offers dedicated servers, cloud servers and web hosting from Germany · hetzner.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%.
Amazon Web Services is first at 45%.
Why models recommend it
“The best colocation provider for a company with a limited budget is Hetzner, which offers full racks from €100/month.”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Hetzner: Industry-leading price-to-performance ratio in Europe and North America.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“If you are in Europe, this is often unbeatable on raw price and performance, though it has fewer managed services”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“best if your top priority is lowest raw infrastructure cost and you're comfortable with more self-management”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“support is almost entirely self-service and community-driven... drive a significant portion of global malicious traffic”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Users frequently report failures returning TXT records... No DNSSEC support either.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“their management tooling is slightly less polished than DigitalOcean”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Hetzner, over the 78 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 22 | View → | |
| 35 | 6 | View → | |
| 31 | 1 | View → | |
| 28 | 2 | View → | |
| 28 | 2 | View → | |
| 18 | 1 | View → | |
| 16 | 2 | View → | |
| 16 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 3 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Hetzner →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Hetzner's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- beginners and businesses
- Price stated
- Starting at
- Customers named
- Elara Aerospace, IT Logic, TutKit, chop solutions, MariaDB Foundation, EntwicklerHeld, Twipla, Talkwalker
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 62 of the 78 answers that named Hetzner and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
112 of the 130 domain citations in answers naming Hetzner 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 76 | undated | Object storage | ||
| Blog | 25 | 8 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Case study | 18 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Self hosted network storage with true nas community edition blog
- 2026-09-11Digital sovereignty what it means and how to achieve it blog
- 2026-09-02Datenschutz blog
- 2026-08-27Seafile blog
- 2026-08-17Inference experiment blog
- 2026-07-30Node red blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page hetzner.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 September 29, 2026.