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Best cloud platforms for startups (buyer asking for advice)

We asked 10 models: I'm a startup founder choosing where to host our app. Which cloud platform would you recommend? Each named its own top 10.

Asked 4 ways: List request · Buyer asking for advice · Search query · Worth paying for?. Share of voice pools every wording.

Agreement between models
73%
Same model, run twice
83%
Different picks
20

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#PickScoreListed byClaude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra

5 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.

Most divisive

Picks most models listed, at very different positions

Hot takes

Picks that appear on only one ballot

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Haiku 5.5

  1. AWS
  2. Google Cloud
  3. Microsoft Azure
  4. Vercel
  5. Heroku
  6. Render
  7. Cloudflare
  8. DigitalOcean
  9. Fly.io
  10. Netlify

91% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

  1. AWS
  2. Google Cloud
  3. Microsoft Azure
  4. DigitalOcean
  5. Vercel
  6. Cloudflare
  7. Render
  8. Heroku
  9. Fly.io
  10. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

89% with consensus · 93% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

  1. AWS
  2. Google Cloud
  3. Render
  4. Microsoft Azure
  5. Vercel
  6. DigitalOcean
  7. Fly.io
  8. Railway
  9. Cloudflare Workers
  10. Heroku

92% with consensus · 92% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

  1. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  2. Google App Engine
  3. Fly.io
  4. Render
  5. Azure App Service
  6. Heroku
  7. AWS
  8. Google Cloud
  9. Railway
  10. Microsoft Azure

19% with consensus · 41% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. AWS
  2. Google Cloud
  3. Microsoft Azure
  4. Vercel
  5. DigitalOcean
  6. Railway
  7. Fly.io
  8. Render
  9. Linode
  10. Hetzner

93% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

  1. AWS
  2. Google Cloud
  3. Vercel
  4. Microsoft Azure
  5. Railway
  6. Render
  7. Fly.io
  8. Heroku
  9. DigitalOcean
  10. Supabase

90% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

Kimi K3

  1. AWS
  2. Google Cloud
  3. Microsoft Azure
  4. Vercel
  5. Render
  6. Railway
  7. DigitalOcean
  8. Fly.io
  9. Cloudflare
  10. Heroku

97% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

  1. AWS
  2. Google Cloud
  3. Microsoft Azure
  4. Cloudflare Workers
  5. Render
  6. DigitalOcean
  7. Fly.io
  8. Heroku
  9. Vercel
  10. Railway

89% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

  1. AWS
  2. Google Cloud
  3. Vercel
  4. Render
  5. Microsoft Azure
  6. Railway
  7. Fly.io
  8. Heroku
  9. DigitalOcean
  10. Netlify

89% with consensus · 61% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

  1. AWS
  2. Google Cloud
  3. Microsoft Azure
  4. DigitalOcean
  5. Vercel
  6. Railway
  7. Fly.io
  8. Render
  9. Vultr
  10. Linode

91% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 13 (lightest) to 96 (darkest)

Claude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5908317868691838484
GPT-6 Luna908413888288847991
Gemini 4 Argon838421868689868886
Qwen 3.8 Flash171321131817192313
DeepSeek V4 Pro868886138893838696
GLM-5.3868286188890819586
Kimi K3918889179390869091
MiniMax M3838486198381868083
Mistral Large 4847988238695908083
Nemotron 3 Ultra849186139686918383