HostGator
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. HostGator has 7.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“such as Bluehost, HostGator, iPage, and others, due to their decline in quality and customer satisfaction”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
“Brands include: Bluehost, HostGator, HostMonster, iPage, FatCow, JustHost, Domain.com.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“HostGator India — sites down without notice, no refund policy, terrible support”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Avoid: EIG-owned brands (Bluehost, HostGator)”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as HostGator, over the 17 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
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 15 of the 17 answers that named HostGator and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for HostGator, so its own site is not marked. Three 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |