Cloud & Web Hosting,
according to AI
Every week we ask ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini the questions real UK consumers ask about cloud & web hosting — and record exactly which brands they put forward. Right now, Google Drive owns the conversation.
0 AI answers this run · 0 brands named · measured, never estimated
Google Drive is the default answer.
Named in 58% of cloud & web hosting answers, typically in position 2.2. Microsoft OneDrive follows at 52%, Apple iCloud at 50%.
Every brand AI names, ranked.
Visibility is the share of answers naming the brand; citation share is its slice of all brand-owned pages cited; read→cited is how often its pages convert a read into a citation.
| # | Brand | Visibility | Avg. position | Citation share | Read→cited |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google Drive | 58% | 2.2 | 33% | 26% |
| 2 | Microsoft OneDrive | 52% | 2.6 | 12% | 19% |
| 3 | Apple iCloud | 50% | 2.7 | 24% | 26% |
| 4 | Sync.com | 42% | 3.3 | 2% | 33% |
| 5 | Dropbox | 38% | 3.6 | 4% | 12% |
| 6 | pCloud | 15% | 4.1 | 2% | 14% |
| 7 | Backblaze | 13% | 4.3 | 4% | 18% |
| 8 | Idrive | 12% | 5.3 | 0% | — |
| 9 | Namecheap | 10% | 2.5 | 0% | — |
| 10 | Hostinger | 8% | 1.4 | 6% | 33% |
| 11 | Bluehost | 8% | 2.6 | 2% | 33% |
| 12 | SiteGround | 8% | 3.8 | 0% | — |
| 13 | Mega | 8% | 4.2 | 4% | — |
| 14 | GoDaddy | 7% | 3.3 | 0% | 0% |
| 15 | AWS | 5% | 2.7 | 0% | — |
The referees of cloud & web hosting.
The independent sources AI models cite when answering cloud & web hosting questions — the places a brand needs to be seen, reviewed and ranked.
Sync.com converts reads into citations. Dropbox doesn't.
When Claude or ChatGPT opens a brand's own pages while answering, does the page make the cited-sources list? Sync.com converts 33% of reads; Dropbox just 12%. That gap is a content problem, not a visibility problem.
Full data table
| # | Brand | Visibility | Avg. position | Citation share | Read→cited |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google Drive | 58% | 2.2 | 33% | 26% |
| 2 | Microsoft OneDrive | 52% | 2.6 | 12% | 19% |
| 3 | Apple iCloud | 50% | 2.7 | 24% | 26% |
| 4 | Sync.com | 42% | 3.3 | 2% | 33% |
| 5 | Dropbox | 38% | 3.6 | 4% | 12% |
| 6 | pCloud | 15% | 4.1 | 2% | 14% |
| 7 | Backblaze | 13% | 4.3 | 4% | 18% |
| 8 | Idrive | 12% | 5.3 | 0% | — |
| 9 | Namecheap | 10% | 2.5 | 0% | — |
| 10 | Hostinger | 8% | 1.4 | 6% | 33% |
| 11 | Bluehost | 8% | 2.6 | 2% | 33% |
| 12 | SiteGround | 8% | 3.8 | 0% | — |
| 13 | Mega | 8% | 4.2 | 4% | — |
| 14 | GoDaddy | 7% | 3.3 | 0% | 0% |
| 15 | AWS | 5% | 2.7 | 0% | — |
All three models agree: Google Drive.
A rare consensus — every model puts Google Drive first, and their top-five lists overlap 100%. Winning here means winning everywhere at once.
Brands whose visibility swings most between models — the bar per model, widest gap on the right.
The data behind this chart
| Brand | Claude | Gemini | ChatGPT | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sync.com | 35% | 65% | 25% | 40pp |
| Microsoft OneDrive | 35% | 65% | 55% | 30pp |
| Google Drive | 45% | 70% | 60% | 25pp |
| Apple iCloud | 35% | 60% | 55% | 25pp |
| Idrive | 15% | 20% | 0% | 20pp |
| Mega | 5% | 20% | 0% | 20pp |
| Dropbox | 30% | 40% | 45% | 15pp |
| Bluehost | 15% | 10% | 0% | 15pp |
| Namecheap | 15% | 15% | 0% | 15pp |
| SiteGround | 15% | 10% | 0% | 15pp |
Nineteen more categories.
Method: 20 unbranded consumer prompts per category, spread across the buying journey, run weekly against ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Read→cited uses Claude and ChatGPT only (Gemini does not separate the two). Correlational observations of model behaviour at the time of the run. Data from the run completed Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:43:22 GMT.