Best cloud platforms for startups

We asked 10 models: The best cloud hosting platforms for a startup. 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

78%

Same model, run twice

84%

Different picks

19

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.

#	Pick	Score	Listed by	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
1	AWS		10/10	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Google Cloud		10/10	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	3
3	Azure		10/10	3	3	3	5	3	4	3	3	3	5
4	DigitalOcean		10/10	4	4	5	9	4	3	5	4	5	2
5	Vercel		9/10	6	5	4	1	5	5	4	9	4
6	Render		9/10	7	7	6	6		7	6	8	6	8
7	Heroku		8/10	5	8		10	10	6	8	6	7
8	Fly.io		10/10	8	9	8	4	8	9	10	10	10	10
9	Linode		4/10	9				6			5		6
10	Railway		5/10			9		7	8	7		8
11	Vultr		3/10						10		7		4
12	Cloudflare		3/10	10	6					9
13	Hetzner		3/10			10		9					7
14	AWS Elastic Beanstalk		1/10				7
15	Cloudflare Workers		1/10			7

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

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. Azure
4. DigitalOcean
5. Heroku
6. Vercel
7. Render
8. Fly.io
9. Linode
10. Cloudflare

96% with consensus · 99% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

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

95% with consensus · 93% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

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

93% with consensus · 90% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

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

58% with consensus · 46% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

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

92% with consensus · 88% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

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

92% with consensus · 85% self-consistent

Kimi K3

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

93% with consensus · 93% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

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

90% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

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

94% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

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

71% with consensus · 65% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 46 (lightest) to 98 (darkest)

	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
Claude Haiku 5.5		93	88	54	90	91	90	91	90	71
GPT-6 Luna	93		89	55	89	90	92	87	91	70
Gemini 4 Argon	88	89		60	89	87	94	82	94	67
Qwen 3.8 Flash	54	55	60		53	55	59	48	59	46
DeepSeek V4 Pro	90	89	89	53		88	89	88	88	74
GLM-5.3	91	90	87	55	88		89	86	90	74
Kimi K3	90	92	94	59	89	89		84	98	67
MiniMax M3	91	87	82	48	88	86	84		85	78
Mistral Large 4	90	91	94	59	88	90	98	85		67
Nemotron 3 Ultra	71	70	67	46	74	74	67	78	67