Hetzner

How often 10 AI models recommend Hetzner, what they say about it, and who they recommend instead, on the 1 buying question where it came up.

Mention rate

24%of all answers on this question

Best standing

#11of 27 on Best cloud platforms for startups

Buying questions

1where any model named it

Never named it

3of 10 models

Which models recommend it

Share of each model's answers that named it, at any position · The black tick marks the panel average

1. DeepSeek V4 Pro58%
2. Nemotron 3 Ultra58%
3. Gemini 4 Argon42%
4. GPT-6 Luna33%
5. Kimi K325%
6. Qwen 3.8 Flash17%
7. MiniMax M38%
8. Claude Haiku 5.50%
9. GLM-5.30%
10. Mistral Large 40%

Never named it: Claude Haiku 5.5 GLM-5.3 Mistral Large 4

Tracked since October 25, 2026. Each time the panel answers these questions again, the change shows here.

What the models say

Each model's one-line reason for recommending it, from its first answer

Best cloud platforms for startups 4

• GPT-6 LunaOutstanding price-performance for teams comfortable managing more of their own infrastructure.
• Gemini 4 ArgonUnbeatable price-to-performance ratio for compute, saving cash-strapped startups up to 70% on hosting.
• DeepSeek V4 ProUnbeatable bare-metal and VPS pricing in Europe; perfect for budget-conscious scaling.
• Nemotron 3 UltraBest price/performance in Europe, dedicated

Against the competition

Each question's products ranked by the share of all answers that named them, Hetzner highlighted.

Best cloud platforms for startups

27 products named in 120 answers across 4 wordings

In nearly every answer

RenderAWSDigitalOceanVercelGoogle Cloud

Contested

1. 6Microsoft Azure88%
2. 7Fly.io86%
3. 8Railway76%
4. 9Heroku70%
5. 10Cloudflare43%
6. ⋯
7. 11Hetzner24%

Mention rate by model and question

Share of each model's answers on the question that named it · Hover a cell for the count

Question	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
Best cloud platforms for startups		33	42	17	58		25	8		58

Does the wording matter?

Share of answers that named it under each way of asking the question · Hover a cell for the exact wording

Question	List request	Buyer asking for advice	Search query	Worth paying for?
Best cloud platforms for startups	33	20		43

Head to head

Against the products named most often on the same questions

Hetzner vs RenderHetzner vs AWSHetzner vs DigitalOceanHetzner vs VercelHetzner vs Google CloudHetzner vs Microsoft Azure

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