Hosting & PaaS · week of Apr 13, 2026

Hosting & PaaS leaderboard

Scores are shown as X/100 · #N of M. WoW delta compares this week to the previous completed run.

#	Brand	Score	Mention	Pos	Coverage	WoW
1	Render	67.0/100 #1 of 16	58.3%	0.59	100.0%	—
2	Vercel	63.0/100 #2 of 16	43.8%	0.71	100.0%	—
3	AWS Lambda	58.0/100 #3 of 16	35.4%	0.69	100.0%	—
4	Netlify	58.0/100 #4 of 16	37.5%	0.65	100.0%	—
5	Cloudflare Workers	57.0/100 #5 of 16	31.3%	0.72	100.0%	—
6	DigitalOcean	55.0/100 #6 of 16	39.6%	0.52	100.0%	—
7	Railway	54.0/100 #7 of 16	37.5%	0.63	80.0%	—
8	Fly.io	47.0/100 #8 of 16	31.3%	0.53	80.0%	—
9	Azure Functions	44.0/100 #9 of 16	16.7%	0.53	100.0%	—
10	Google Cloud Functions	36.0/100 #10 of 16	12.5%	0.59	60.0%	—
11	Koyeb	35.0/100 #11 of 16	2.1%	1.00	20.0%	—
12	Cloudflare Pages	32.0/100 #12 of 16	6.3%	0.57	60.0%	—
13	Deno Deploy	32.0/100 #13 of 16	8.3%	0.53	60.0%	—
14	Hetzner	31.0/100 #14 of 16	6.3%	0.53	60.0%	—
15	OVHcloud	0.0/100 #15 of 16	0.0%	0.00	0.0%	—
16	Scaleway	0.0/100 #16 of 16	0.0%	0.00	0.0%	—

Brand × engine breakdown

Each cell shows mention count in this category and average rank when present.

Brand	PPLX	GPT	CLD	GEM	DSK
Render	2 · #1.5	3 · #3.0	5 · #3.8	3 · #2.3	4 · #2.0
Vercel	2	3 · #2.7	3 · #1.0	2 · #1.5	4
AWS Lambda	1 · #1.0	1 · #1.0	2 · #3.0	1 · #1.0	3
Netlify	2 · #1.0	3 · #3.0	3 · #3.3	2 · #1.5	3 · #5.0
Cloudflare Workers	0	1 · #4.0	1 · #4.0	0	1
DigitalOcean	2 · #2.5	3 · #3.7	3 · #5.0	3 · #4.0	3 · #4.0
Railway	1 · #3.0	2 · #3.5	5 · #2.8	0	4 · #1.0
Fly.io	0	0	2 · #4.5	1 · #3.0	4 · #3.0
Azure Functions	1 · #3.0	1 · #3.0	1 · #3.0	1 · #3.0	1
Google Cloud Functions	0	1 · #2.0	0	1 · #2.0	0
Koyeb	0	0	0	0	0
Cloudflare Pages	0	0	0	0	1
Deno Deploy	1 · #3.0	0	0	0	0
Hetzner	1 · #2.0	0	0	0	1
OVHcloud	0	0	0	0	0
Scaleway	0	0	0	0	0

Prompt wins and gaps

Winning prompts are 5/5 engine hits. Losing prompts are 0/5 (or lowest coverage fallback).

Render

67.0/100 · #1 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

Where to deploy a Node.js API with a managed Postgres in one provider

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Serverless platforms that avoid cold-start penalties on production traffic
Best hosting platform for a production Next.js app
Vercel alternative with stronger backend support

Vercel

63.0/100 · #2 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

Best hosting platform for a production Next.js app
Cheapest hosting for an indie SaaS with preview deployments per pull request

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Vercel alternative with stronger backend support

AWS Lambda

58.0/100 · #3 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

Serverless platforms that avoid cold-start penalties on production traffic

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Cheapest hosting for an indie SaaS with preview deployments per pull request

Netlify

58.0/100 · #4 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

Best hosting platform for a production Next.js app
Cheapest hosting for an indie SaaS with preview deployments per pull request

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Where to deploy a Node.js API with a managed Postgres in one provider
Serverless platforms that avoid cold-start penalties on production traffic

Cloudflare Workers

57.0/100 · #5 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

No full-coverage prompts this week.

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Best hosting platform for a production Next.js app
Vercel alternative with stronger backend support
Where to deploy a Node.js API with a managed Postgres in one provider

DigitalOcean

55.0/100 · #6 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

Best hosting platform for a production Next.js app

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Serverless platforms that avoid cold-start penalties on production traffic

Railway

54.0/100 · #7 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

No full-coverage prompts this week.

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Serverless platforms that avoid cold-start penalties on production traffic
Best hosting platform for a production Next.js app
Vercel alternative with stronger backend support

Fly.io

47.0/100 · #8 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

No full-coverage prompts this week.

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Where to deploy a Node.js API with a managed Postgres in one provider

Azure Functions

44.0/100 · #9 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

Serverless platforms that avoid cold-start penalties on production traffic

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Best hosting platform for a production Next.js app
Vercel alternative with stronger backend support
Where to deploy a Node.js API with a managed Postgres in one provider

Google Cloud Functions

36.0/100 · #10 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

No full-coverage prompts this week.

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Best hosting platform for a production Next.js app
Vercel alternative with stronger backend support
Where to deploy a Node.js API with a managed Postgres in one provider

Koyeb

35.0/100 · #11 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

No full-coverage prompts this week.

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Best hosting platform for a production Next.js app
Vercel alternative with stronger backend support
Where to deploy a Node.js API with a managed Postgres in one provider

Cloudflare Pages

32.0/100 · #12 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

No full-coverage prompts this week.

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Vercel alternative with stronger backend support
Where to deploy a Node.js API with a managed Postgres in one provider
Cheapest hosting for an indie SaaS with preview deployments per pull request

Deno Deploy

32.0/100 · #13 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

No full-coverage prompts this week.

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Vercel alternative with stronger backend support
Where to deploy a Node.js API with a managed Postgres in one provider
Cheapest hosting for an indie SaaS with preview deployments per pull request

Hetzner

31.0/100 · #14 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

No full-coverage prompts this week.

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Best hosting platform for a production Next.js app
Vercel alternative with stronger backend support
Where to deploy a Node.js API with a managed Postgres in one provider

OVHcloud

0.0/100 · #15 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

No full-coverage prompts this week.

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Best hosting platform for a production Next.js app
Vercel alternative with stronger backend support
Where to deploy a Node.js API with a managed Postgres in one provider

Scaleway

0.0/100 · #16 of 16

Winning prompts (5/5 engines)

No full-coverage prompts this week.

Losing prompts (0/5 engines)

Best hosting platform for a production Next.js app
Vercel alternative with stronger backend support
Where to deploy a Node.js API with a managed Postgres in one provider