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How should a buyer compare cloud pricing, discounts, support plans, network egress, and total operating cost?

Which brands each model API named when asked this question, and which pages it cited. Answer text is not published.
Snapshot Sep 21, 2026. Each category is re-run in rotation, every few weeks.

Commercial

Kind of question

3

Model APIs

4

Brands named

15

Pages cited

Brands

Brands the answers named

Ordered by how many model APIs named the brand, then by mentions. A mention is not an endorsement or a position.
Rank#BrandModel APIsMentionsOwn-site citationsNamed by
1Amazon Web Servicesaws.amazon.com221OpenAI · Google
2Google Cloudcloud.google.com220OpenAI · Google
3Microsoft Azureazure.microsoft.com220OpenAI · Google
4IBM Cloudibm.com101OpenAI

Model APIs

What each model API returned

One row per model API. The hash identifies the exact answer without publishing it.
Model APIModelBrands namedCitationsDomainsAnswer hash
OpenAIopenai/gpt-4o-miniAmazon Web Services · Microsoft Azure · Google Cloud · IBM Cloud88ea4479ea…c64fa
Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5None named00ec9d0a95…ad6a4
Googlegoogle/gemini-2.5-flashAmazon Web Services · Microsoft Azure · Google Cloud77b1eca902…f04ab

Sources

Pages the answers cited

Hostnames come from the URLs the answers returned. Best position is the earliest place a page was cited in an answer.
DomainCited pageBest positionCited byCitations
aws.amazon.comhttps://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/1OpenAI1
rank.aihttps://rank.ai/prompts/cloud-platform-pricing-egress1Google1
emma.mshttps://emma.ms/blog/cloud-pricing-comparison-compute-storage-and-networking2Google1
reddit.comhttps://reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1sfk5l1/how_do_you_compare_cloud_costs_across_providers_i/2OpenAI1
spot.rackspace.comhttps://spot.rackspace.com/blog/cloud-computing-cost3Google1
vendorbenchmark.comhttps://vendorbenchmark.com/blog/cloud-support-plan-pricing-benchmark-comparison3OpenAI1
aerospike.comhttps://aerospike.com/blog/cloud-egress-costs-explained/4Google1
cloud.ibm.comhttps://cloud.ibm.com/docs/support?topic=support-support-plans&locale=en4OpenAI1
cloudkeeper.comhttps://cloudkeeper.com/insights/blog/aws-support-plans-explained-old-vs-new-tiers-pricing-and-differences-part-15OpenAI1
infracost.iohttps://infracost.io/resources/glossary/cloud-egress-costs5Google1
cloudoptimo.comhttps://cloudoptimo.com/blog/the-true-cost-of-cloud-data-egress-and-how-to-manage-it/6Google1
tutorialsdojo.comhttps://tutorialsdojo.com/aws-support-plans/6OpenAI1
amazonaws.cnhttps://amazonaws.cn/en/support/compare-plans/7OpenAI1
nops.iohttps://nops.io/blog/aws-egress-costs-and-how-to-avoid/7Google1
trailhead.salesforce.comhttps://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/aws-pricing-models-and-support/find-the-right-help-with-aws-support-plans8OpenAI1
Snapshots
632b0b29-55df-4787-8dcc-711ff59f1049
Question set
cloud-platforms-2026-07-27
Benchmark version
4-cloud-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583
What is kept
Measured in Cloud. Full answers are not stored or published, and no customer data is included.

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