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Cloud hosting · October 2026 Edition

Hostinger vs Vultr

Zero of fourteen models named Hostinger first on the direct prompt; one named Vultr. Hostinger was named by ten of the fourteen models and Vultr by eleven and Hostinger carries 16 labels and Vultr 29, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Hostinger

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Vultr

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share10%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate6%10%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#5A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels1629A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Hostinger reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Amazon Web Services was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. Amazon Web Services vs Hostinger · Amazon Web Services vs Vultr · Microsoft Azure vs Hostinger

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the cloud hosting page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
HostingerFirst choices, of fourteen modelsVultr
Direct01
Paraphrase001 against Vultr
Comparative00
Budget-constrained51
Scale-constrained00
Negative001 against Hostinger · 2 against Vultr
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Hostinger and Vultr were named in the same answer twenty-three times, of the 45 answers naming Hostinger and the 62 naming Vultr. In those answers Vultr took the first choice one time and Hostinger three.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Hostinger and Vultr stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Hostinger Vultr first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Hostinger on the left and Vultr on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Hostinger and Vultr stood in it.

Vultr first, Hostinger not the choice

1 of 14 modelsHostinger was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Kimi K2DigitalOcean Droplets, Vultr alternatives: Amazon Web Services, Atlantic.Net, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Perplexity SonarAmazon Web Services alternatives: Atlantic.Net, Google Cloud, Hostinger

Neither was named

12 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Hyve Managed Hosting alternatives: Atlantic.Net, Kamatera
GPT-5.4 miniAmazon Web Services alternatives: Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure
Gemini 3.5 FlashAmazon Web Services alternatives: Akamai Connected Cloud, Cloudways, DigitalOcean Droplets, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Render
Grok 4.1 FastAmazon Web Services alternatives: Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure
Mistral SmallAmazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure
DeepSeek V4 FlashMicrosoft Azure alternatives: Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean Droplets, Google Cloud, Liquid Web
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Qwen 3.7 FlashMicrosoft Azure alternatives: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud
GLM 4.7 FlashXMicrosoft Azure alternatives: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud
MiniMax M2.5Amazon Web Services, Azure
GPT-6 LunaAmazon Web Services alternatives: Azure, Google Cloud
Muse Glimmer 30BAmazon Web Services alternatives: Azure, DigitalOcean Droplets, Google Cloud, InMotion Hosting, Kamatera, Liquid Web

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Level: the same share of first choices.
Hostinger5%#6 of 14
Vultr5%#5 of 14
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Hostinger leads by six points.
Hostinger10%#4 of 12
Vultr4%#5 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Hostinger0%#– of 8
Vultr0%#– of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Hostinger

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of five in this category shown.

“Alleged unethical practices (fake reviews), slow performance, poor customer support” GLM 4.7 FlashX · negative prompt · hard negative
“Hostinger is generally considered the top choice for tight budgets due to its aggressive pricing and included features” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“For Simple Websites/Blogs: Hostinger Cloud ($7.19/mo with free trial) or DreamHost ($4.50/mo)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · budget prompt · first choice
“The best cloud hosting provider for a company with a limited budget is Hostinger” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Vultr

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of seven in this category shown.

“such as DigitalOcean or Vultr ... trade simplicity and lower cost for fewer enterprise features” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · soft negative
“Generally has worse uptime than DigitalOcean according to multiple comparisons” GLM 4.7 FlashX · negative prompt · soft negative
“these are generally better suited to: Smaller teams (fewer managed services)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“DigitalOcean or Vultr at the $5–6/month tier offers the best balance of cost, reliability, and usability” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“DigitalOcean or Vultr provide excellent value with simpler management” Kimi K2 · direct prompt · first choice
“Vultr simplifies cloud hosting at highly economical costs, with plans starting at as low as $2.5/month.” Muse Glimmer 30B · budget prompt · alternative
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.