AI Brand Chart: Web hosting services, edition 2026-w42
4 AI models, 39 buying scenarios, edition 2026-w42, data as of October 16, 2026.
Brand names only: the models saw each option as a brand name, with no product facts, and answered from their own knowledge.
Fast panel: the fast or small current models of each vendor, not the full flagship panel.
beta: intervals not small-sample calibrated
Tiers, not strict ranks
How to read this
A position is only the order of the estimates, and arrows show how that order moved since the last edition: brands in one tier cannot be told apart from its leader at 95% confidence, and each rank is an interval. Rails show the conditional pick share (among answers that picked a brand) in shortlists of 4 (chance is 25%).
Changed beyond noise: for this brand alone, the 95% interval of its share change excludes 0. Lineup or panel changes between editions can cause it too, and it is never a rank claim.
Display order since the last edition, not strict ranks. Moves without a badge are within the margin.
- 1NewKinstaNew on the chart in this edition.47% (32%–62%)1 week
- 2NewSiteGroundNew on the chart in this edition.44% (30%–60%)1 week
- 3NewHostingerNew on the chart in this edition.38% (25%–53%)1 week
- 4NewDreamHostNew on the chart in this edition.30% (17%–45%)1 week
- 5NewWP EngineNew on the chart in this edition.27% (15%–42%)1 week
- 6NewNamecheapNew on the chart in this edition.21% (10%–34%)1 week
- 7NewBluehostNew on the chart in this edition.17% (7%–29%)1 week
- 8NewDigitalOceanNew on the chart in this edition.16% (6%–29%)1 week
- 9NewIONOSNew on the chart in this edition.5% (1%–13%)1 week
- 10NewGoDaddyNew on the chart in this edition.5% (1%–11%)1 week