Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 67 → 17 of 77
3 categories · RankedBluehost
31Judge labels
1First choices
22Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Cloud hosting for small business buyers
Rank 83 of 85 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 70% of its 10 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Bluehost →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business18 of 81
2%12 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market83 of 85
0%10 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise34 of 44
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In cloud hosting · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Bluehost for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 83 of 85 | 70% | 10 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Managed DNS | Network and edge | 0% | 76 of 78 | 100% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare DNS at 84% | |
| DDoS protection | Network and edge | 0% | 49 of 58 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 82% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Bluehost held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Cloud hosting · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 75 → 73 of 75
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 51 → 30 of 41
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 75 → 83 of 85 |
| Managed DNS | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 76 of 78, unchanged |
| DDoS | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 49 of 58, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Bluehost across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Bluehost across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct5 labels1
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative22 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Other affordable options include Bluehost, Kamatera, Cloudways, and Vultr.” Llama 4 Maverick · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Similar issues to Hostinger (poor support, upselling), owned by EIG which has a reputation for slow support and aggressive upselling practices” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative
“keeping your DNS and your domain registration in the same bucket violates the principle of separation of duties” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed DNS · negative prompt · hard negative
“Bluehost: Has reliability issues with frequent service interruptions that undermine uptime guarantees” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative
“Using the default DNS provided by your shared web host is a major architectural anti-pattern.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed DNS · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Bluehost, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bluehost was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Bluehost, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bluehost was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Bluehost. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 28 of the 31 answers that named Bluehost and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
atlantic.net14
forbes.com11
bluehost.comYour site10
reddit.com9
techradar.com8
g2.com7
scalahosting.com7
cybernews.com6
hostingadvice.com6
hostinger.com5
Seventy-three of the eighty-three domain citations in answers naming Bluehost came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
bluehost.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Bluehost takes 0% of first choices and Amazon Web Services takes 32%.ShowHide
Search and answers
bluehost.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Bluehost takes 0% of first choices and Amazon Web Services takes 32%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cloud hosting provider”
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not in the top ten
Position for “cloud hosting providers”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 74,000 a month (“bluehost”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,430 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 163,587 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 35,889 · 625 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 107,889
- Paid Google search
- 42 searches its ads show for, about 6,412 clicks and $41,082 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 83 of 85 in cloud hosting
Segment leader
32%
Amazon Web Services
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 31 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 28 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on bluehost.com
13
subdomains included
Content
10
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 10 | 10 | 2026-09-28 |
Most recent
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- 2026-09-25Google vault blog
- 2026-09-25Record google meet call blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page bluehost.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow Bluehost
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Bluehost is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Bluehost is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Small Business Platform for the AI Era
- For
- small businesses, developers, and agencies
- Price stated
- $3.99/mo, $6.99/mo, $14.99/mo, $20.00/mo, $4.69/mo, $65.00/mo, $140.00/mo, $220.19/mo bluehost.com
- Starting price
- $3.99/mo bluehost.com
- Free plan or trial
- FREE TRIAL bluehost.com
- Certifications
- Recommended by WordPress.org since 2005
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting, customers
What Bluehost's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: bluehost.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Bluehost's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Bluehost, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Bluehost by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Bluehost is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Bluehost, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.