Vantage research · November 2026 · Developer tools
What AI cites for “vercel alternatives”
ChatGPT cited 10 sites, Gemini cited 8 sites, Perplexity cited 10 sites. No site was cited by all three.
Updated monthlyNext edition 1 December 2026
ChatGPTGeminiPerplexity dots beside a site: the other engines that cite it too
ChatGPT
10 sites · opens with a sentence · has a table · opening 24 words
- pages.cloudflare.com
- netlify.com
- railway.com
- render.com
- fly.io
- coolify.io
- aws.amazon.com
- digitalocean.com
- bootstrap.build
- askgpu.com
Brands namedCloudflare Pages & Workers, Netlify, Railway, Render, Fly.io, Coolify, AWS Amplify, DigitalOcean App Platform
Gemini
8 sites · opens with a sentence · no table · opening 27 words
- northflank.com
- truefoundry.com
- bunnyshell.com
- gartner.com
- bootstrap.build
- replit.com
- devchallenges.io
- reddit.comcommunity
Brands namedDirect Frontend & JAMstack Alternatives, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, Full-Stack & Database-Heavy Apps, Railway, Render, Fly.io, AWS Amplify
Perplexity
10 sites · opens with a sentence · has a table · opening 10 words
- g2.comcommunity
- pantheon.io
- hostinger.com
- bunnyshell.com
- encore.dev
- dokploy.com
- northflank.com
- hyscaler.com
- qovery.com
- digitalocean.com
Brands namedNetlify, Cloudflare Pages + Workers, Render, Railway, Fly.io, AWS Amplify, DigitalOcean App Platform, Coolify
Cited by more than one engine
- digitalocean.com
- bootstrap.build
- northflank.com
- bunnyshell.com
Is your site one of them?
Ask your AI agent to run Vantage's analyze_citation_coverage for your domain and “vercel alternatives”, on all
three engines, and it will tell you whether you are cited, who is instead, and what changed since your last check.
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Each engine was asked once, in English, as from the United States, on 2026-11-01. Answers change from run to run, so read this as a snapshot. Download the data.