AIRANKS — The Authoritative Rankings for AI Web Content

AIRANKS measures AI visibility: we ask AI models real product and service questions, capture the complete answers as immutable observations, and publish what they contain — which brands were mentioned, which domains were cited, and which exact pages were linked. Every domain gets an AIR score from 1–10 (a decile of visibility in the active dataset; 0 means insufficient data), with the methodology in the open.

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The Question

← all rankings / dataset COBALT

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DigitalOcean takes the top spot in 100.0% of resamples. Of 10 ranked brands, only 4 hold a position we'd call firm.

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Who AI Cites For This Question

25 cited pages · bars vs the leader

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The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

DigitalOcean locked DigitalOcean — ci 1.00–1.00 · n=365 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 76% of answers
Vercel locked Vercel — ci 0.89–0.89 · n=365 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 88% of answers
Hetzner locked Hetzner — ci 0.78–0.78 · n=365 · 98.4% of resamples held this rank · named in 48% of answers
Cloudflare locked Cloudflare — ci 0.67–0.67 · n=365 · 98.4% of resamples held this rank · named in 64% of answers
Netlify contested Netlify — ci 0.44–0.56 · n=365 · 59.4% of resamples held this rank · named in 3% of answers
Google Cloud contested Google Cloud — ci 0.33–0.56 · n=365 · 57.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 3% of answers
AWS gathering AWS — gathering data, n=365. No bootstrap interval yet.
Vultr gathering Vultr — gathering data, n=365. No bootstrap interval yet.
Linode gathering Linode — gathering data, n=365. No bootstrap interval yet.
Hostinger gathering Hostinger — gathering data, n=365. No bootstrap interval yet.

The Incomparability Lattice

what the intervals separate, not what the list claims

An edge means one brand's interval sits strictly above another's — zero overlap. No edge between two brands is not a gap in the drawing, it is the finding: their intervals overlap, and the bootstrap cannot tell them apart. Brands on the same rung are incomparable, not tied — the ranking above orders them anyway because a list has to print a total order; this diagram is the honest version.

DigitalOcean

1.00–1.00

Vercel

0.89–0.89

Hetzner

0.78–0.78

Cloudflare

0.67–0.67

Netlify

0.44–0.56

Google Cloud

0.33–0.56