How Hetzner shows up in AI search

12.5%

of Web hosting answers name Hetzner

Average position
4.1
Category rank
14

Hetzner is named in 12.5% of AI answers to Web hosting prompts. When it is named, its average position is 4.1.

30 Sep 2026 to 12 Oct 2026. 20 Web hosting prompts, 1,756 responses across 7 AI engines.

Mention rate by engine

The share of each engine's answers that name Hetzner. ChatGPT names it most often, Perplexity least often.

ChatGPT Highest 17.7%
AI Mode 16.9%
Copilot 11.9%
Claude 11.9%
AI Overviews 10.8%
Gemini 9.6%
Perplexity Lowest 7.7%

Share of voice

Hetzner next to the brands named most in the same answers. Share of voice is a brand's share of all brand mentions across the 1,756 Web hosting answers, counting each brand once per answer.

Hostinger 9.3%
SiteGround 6.6%
Cloudways 5.3%
DigitalOcean 4.1%
Bluehost 3.7%
Hetzner 1.8%

Top cited sources

The domains cited in the largest share of Web hosting answers.

  1. reddit.com 19.1%
  2. youtube.com 18.2%
  3. cybernews.com 17.7%
  4. hostinger.com 17.1%
  5. techradar.com 14.7%
  6. websiteplanet.com 10.8%
  7. hostingadvice.com 9.2%
  8. cnet.com 8.2%

Method

Pineprompt ran 20 Web hosting prompts against ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews, and analyzed every response for brand mentions, position and cited domains. Mention rate is the share of responses that name the brand. Average position is the brand's order among the brands named in an answer. Read the full methodology, or compare other brands in the brand reports.

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