AI visibility / Dev Infra
How AI describes hosting & deployment platforms
Vercel, Netlify, Render, Railway, Fly.io — the platforms behind the modern web stack. Here's how AI search positions each one when developers ask which to pick.
Brands tracked
5
in this category
Total mentions
4435
across AI search surfaces
Avg. sentiment
+0.81
positive overall
Mention leader: Vercel with 2256 mentions across AI search surfaces.
Brands in this category
All 5 dev infra tools we cover
Vercel
vercel.com
2256
Mentions
+0.74
Sentiment
Frontend cloud platform — Next.js, edge, preview deployments.
Render
render.com
770
Mentions
+0.89
Sentiment
Cloud hosting platform — services, databases, jobs.
Netlify
netlify.com
638
Mentions
+0.90
Sentiment
Web platform for Jamstack — static hosting, functions, edge.
Railway
railway.com
440
Mentions
+0.74
Sentiment
Cloud platform for shipping apps without DevOps overhead.
Fly.io
fly.io
331
Mentions
+0.80
Sentiment
Run full-stack apps close to users on a global edge network.
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Methodology: counts are AI search answers that mention or cite each brand's domain, pulled from a third-party index of AI answers (mostly Google AI Overview). They are not from a prompt panel Lynceus wrote. Each brand report names the surfaces it checked. See how to measure AI visibility.
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