Cloud Hosting & VPS ads in ChatGPT
Ads shown in ChatGPT conversations about Cloud Hosting & VPS. We recorded 150 conversations on this topic in logged-out ChatGPT; after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed 148 ads from 36 advertisers. Most often shown: Contabo, CircleCI and HostingAdvice.com.
Our captureLogged-out ChatGPT, USOct 3–4, 2026
Advertisers shown in Cloud Hosting & VPS conversations
top 25 of 36Ranked by how many of the conversations on this topic ended with their ad on screen; share of the 148 shown ads.
| # | Advertiser | Ads shown | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Contabo | 71 | 48.0% |
| 2 | CircleCI | 8 | 5.4% |
| 3 | Bluehost | 6 | 4.1% |
| 4 | HostingAdvice.com | 6 | 4.1% |
| 5 | nOps | 5 | 3.4% |
| 6 | Cybernews | 4 | 2.7% |
| 7 | North.cloud | 4 | 2.7% |
| 8 | ScaleOps | 4 | 2.7% |
| 9 | Wix | 4 | 2.7% |
| 10 | Ironclad | 3 | 2.0% |
| 11 | pump | 3 | 2.0% |
| 12 | Datadog | 2 | 1.4% |
| 13 | DirectDeals | 2 | 1.4% |
| 14 | Edge Delta | 2 | 1.4% |
| 15 | Finout LTE | 2 | 1.4% |
| 16 | Fireworks | 2 | 1.4% |
| 17 | Ace Cloud Hosting | 1 | 0.7% |
| 18 | Box | 1 | 0.7% |
| 19 | DataBank Holdings | 1 | 0.7% |
| 20 | Digital Heroes | 1 | 0.7% |
| 21 | Falcon Northwest Computer Systems | 1 | 0.7% |
| 22 | GetApp | 1 | 0.7% |
| 23 | Happy Cog | 1 | 0.7% |
| 24 | InMotion Hosting | 1 | 0.7% |
| 25 | InterWorks | 1 | 0.7% |
11 more advertisers shared the other 11 shown ads.
Ad formats
| Format | Ads shown | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Text ad (advertiser name and headline) | 148 | 100.0% |
| Shopping ad (product name and price) | 0 | 0.0% |
Example ads
12 adsDistinct ads as shown (ignoring capitalization), most frequent first, one per advertiser where possible.
- ContaboText ad
VPS 4 – 8 GB, from $5.28/mo
Shown 71 times
- HostingAdvice.comText ad
11 Best Cheap Web Hosts
Shown 5 times
- BluehostText ad
Virtual Private Server Hosting
Shown 5 times
- CircleCIText ad
Try CircleCI Free Today
Shown 4 times
- CybernewsText ad
AI Website Builder 2026
Shown 3 times
- pumpText ad
Save 20% on your company's cloud & LLM bills
Shown 3 times
- nOpsText ad
High Cloud Costs? Surprise
Shown 3 times
- Finout LTEText ad
Every Cloud and AI Cost, Fully Allocated
Shown 2 times
- DatadogText ad
Understand Lambda Costs
Shown 2 times
- North.cloudText ad
Google Cloud Savings, Automated
Shown 2 times
- IroncladText ad
Contract SOC2 Compliance for IT
Shown 2 times
- JotformText ad
HIPAA agreement form -Health care operations.
Shown 1 time
Example conversations
12 examplesChosen to cover different advertisers and question types. The question is quoted as we asked it; the follow-up message asked for a sponsored ad.
In a conversation that began “how do i choose between a vps, a paas and a big cloud provider for my first real production app”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Contabo.
Text ad: “VPS 4 – 8 GB, from $5.28/mo”
Fix or choose question · Oct 4, 03:36 ET
In a conversation that began “gpu cloud h100 price per hour”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from ScaleOps.
Text ad: “Optimize AI Infrastructure”
Price question · Oct 4, 00:51 ET
In a conversation that began “what do we need to make our cloud hosting hipaa eligible for a health tech startup”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Ironclad.
Text ad: “Contract Access Control for IT”
Fix or choose question · Oct 4, 00:16 ET
In a conversation that began “azure vs aws for a microsoft shop”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Finout LTE.
Text ad: “Every Cloud and AI Cost, Fully Allocated”
Comparison question · Oct 4, 02:23 ET
In a conversation that began “is a managed vps worth it for a small business owner who isn't technical”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Ace Cloud Hosting.
Text ad: “50% Off On Virtual Desktop for 3 Months”
Worth it question · Oct 4, 04:34 ET
In a conversation that began “how much does it cost to host a small saas with a web app, postgres and redis on aws per month”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Bluehost.
Text ad: “Virtual Private Server Hosting”
Price question · Oct 3, 23:42 ET
In a conversation that began “fly.io”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from CircleCI.
Text ad: “Try CircleCI Free Today”
Short search question · Oct 4, 02:18 ET
In a conversation that began “best gpu cloud for a small ai team that needs h100s for a few weeks of training at a time”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from North.cloud.
Text ad: “Google Cloud Savings, Automated”
Best for question · Oct 4, 00:23 ET
In a conversation that began “google cloud run vs aws fargate for containerized apis with spiky traffic”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from nOps.
Text ad: “LLM's Don't See Cloud Bills”
Comparison question · Oct 4, 00:09 ET
In a conversation that began “our aws bill is $8k a month for a small saas and we don't know why, how do we figure out where the money goes”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Datadog.
Text ad: “Understand Lambda Costs”
Fix or choose question · Oct 4, 05:02 ET
In a conversation that began “fly.io app keeps restarting fix”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Zesty Tech.
Text ad: “Zesty - Pod Rightsizing That Cuts Cloud Costs”
Fix or choose question · Oct 4, 04:16 ET
In a conversation that began “how to set up a reverse proxy on a vps”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Pressable.
Text ad: “Managed hosting vs. self-managed”
Fix or choose question · Oct 4, 03:03 ET
Question types
How the conversations on this topic were asked, and how many of the shown ads came from each kind.
| Question type | Ads shown | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | 30 | 20.3% |
| Comparison | 21 | 14.2% |
| Price | 23 | 15.5% |
| Fix or choose | 22 | 14.9% |
| Long scenario | 22 | 14.9% |
| Short search | 15 | 10.1% |
| Worth it | 15 | 10.1% |
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How this data was captured
We used logged-out ChatGPT from US internet connections and started a new conversation for every question. Message 1 was the question. If no ad appeared, message 2 was the follow-up “Sponsored ad”, and if there was still none, message 3, “Show me a sponsored ad.”, was a last try. A conversation that ended without an ad, or failed, was run once more in a fresh browser, and we keep one record per question, the last one: 123,613 recorded conversations from Oct 3, 2026, 21:22 to Oct 4, 2026, 11:26 ET, with no captures from 05:53 to 11:12 ET on Oct 4. Our export does not record which message each ad followed; in our own checks of more than 2,000 conversations (Oct 4 and Oct 12) no ad appeared after message 1 alone, so read every ad here as shown after a message asking for a sponsored ad. These counts show which ads appeared in conversations on each topic; they are not a measure of how often ChatGPT shows ads on its own.
Only ads drawn on screen count as shown. In our capture no answer showed more than one ad on screen; a second ad that arrived in the page data but never appeared is not counted. Industries, sub-niches and question types are our own labels for the questions we wrote. Independent; not affiliated with OpenAI. Full methodWhy this is not an ad rateWhat the ads looked like
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