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Index Vendors › Hostinger · September 2026 Edition
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Hostinger

26Judge labels
7First choices
7Negative labels
10 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
9% in Cloud hosting for small business buyers
Rank 5 of 78 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 12% of its 8 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Hostinger 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Cloud hostingCloud and infrastructure7%5 of 7812%8under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 29%
Object storageCloud and infrastructure0%40 of 46100%1under 10 labels · led by Backblaze B2 at 46%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Hostinger yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Hostinger across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01012
Perplexity Sonar11002
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash10001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K210012
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct3 labels1
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative3 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained12 labels6
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative8 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 9 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.

“Hostinger is the strongest general pick if you want the best mix of low cost and usable cloud performance” Perplexity Sonar · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · first choice
“For an easy, managed experience at low cost, Hostinger is the safest pick.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · first choice
“Hostinger is consistently rated as the Best Budget option” Kimi K2 · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · first choice
“Non-technical teams wanting support: `Hostinger Cloud` (`~$7.19/mo`)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · 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.

“Hyper-Budget VPS Object Storage (e.g., Contabo, Hostinger) ... they are highly discouraged for production workloads” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative
“Reports of unjust account suspensions and denial of backup access leading to significant data loss” Kimi K2 · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Hostinger, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hostinger was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Amazon Web Services20 of 261Not in the top three
DigitalOcean16 of 265Not in the top three
Google Cloud14 of 260Not in the top three
Cloudways13 of 262Not in the top three
Kamatera12 of 262Not in the top three
Vultr12 of 261Not in the top three
Azure10 of 260Not in the top three
Hetzner8 of 264Not in the top three
SiteGround8 of 262Not in the top three
Akamai Connected Cloud8 of 260Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Hostinger. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 21 of the 26 answers that named Hostinger and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hostingadvice.com16
techradar.com13
forbes.com12
cybernews.com9
digitalocean.com8
hostadvice.com8
newsweek.com8
atlantic.net6
geekflare.com6
reddit.com6

Ninety-two of the ninety-two domain citations in answers naming Hostinger came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Hostinger

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Hostinger; a claim can dispute any of them.
Hostinger (Cloud Startup) 1Hostinger Cloud 1
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Claim this page

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 Hostinger'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 Hostinger, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at hostinger.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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