PaaS Providers Market Share & Usage Statistics (2026)
Amazon Web Services runs on 1,015,539 live websites, 37.7% of the 2,696,412 sites we detect using PaaS providers. Below, all 44 tools we detect in this category, ranked by live websites, with market share and 30-day adoption momentum.
Data updated Oct 19, 2026
- #1
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon's cloud platform, launched in 2006 and now spanning 124 Availability Zones across 39 geographic regions.
Live websites1,015,539Market Share37.66%Top CountryUnited States - #2
Vercel
Vercel is a frontend cloud for building and deploying web applications, and the company behind Next.js.
Live websites507,196Market Share18.81%Top CountryUnited States - #3
Netlify
Netlify is a cloud platform for building, deploying, and scaling modern web applications.
Live websites194,042Market Share7.2%Top CountryUnited States 
Firebase
Firebase is Google's app development platform: one SDK that gives an app a database, authentication, push messaging, analytics, crash reporting and hosting without a backend team.
Live websites184,211Market Share6.83%Top CountryUnited States
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform, covering compute, storage, networking, identity and managed databases.
Live websites183,970Market Share6.82%Top CountryUnited States
Google Cloud
Google Cloud is Google's cloud platform, covering compute, storage, networking, data and machine learning.
Customers102,535Top CountryUnited States
GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that publishes web pages directly from a GitHub repository, served through GitHub's own edge network.
Live websites85,342Market Share3.17%Top CountryUnited States
Cloudways
Companies that use Cloudways: our October 2026 crawl finds the DigitalOcean-owned managed host on 68,462 domains, including Kerry Group, Foodpanda and Vistage. 61.14% of matched companies have 1 to 10 staff.
Live websites68,462Market Share2.54%Top CountryUnited States
Pantheon
Pantheon is a managed WebOps hosting platform for WordPress and Drupal, providing containerised environments, a global edge cache, and development workflow tooling.
Live websites30,639Market Share1.14%Top CountryUnited States
Supabase
Supabase is an open-source backend platform built on PostgreSQL: a hosted Postgres database with authentication, storage, edge functions, realtime subscriptions and vector search in front of it.
Live websites26,701Market Share0.99%Top CountryUnited States
Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Workers runs JavaScript, TypeScript and WebAssembly on Cloudflare's network instead of an origin server.
Live websites26,539Market Share0.98%Top CountryUnited States
Acquia Cloud Platform
We find Acquia Cloud Platform, Acquia's managed Drupal hosting, on 11,331 live domains, second among Drupal hosts behind Pantheon.
Live websites11,307Market Share0.42%Top CountryUnited States
Platform.sh
Companies that use Platform.sh: our October 2026 crawl finds the PaaS, now sold as Upsun, on 11,030 live domains, including Xerox's online shop, Syngenta, KBR and Pinterest's help centre.
Live websites11,030Market Share0.41%Top CountryUnited States
Fly.io
Companies that use Fly.io: 10,221 live domains answer through Fly.io's proxy in our October 2026 crawl, including Sleep Number, Aramark Refreshments and DreamHost.
Live websites10,221Market Share0.38%Top CountryUnited States
Render
Companies that use Render: 8,749 domains in our October 2026 crawl, mostly API docs served through ReadMe for Akamai, Asana and Gusto.
Live websites8,749Market Share0.32%Top CountryUnited States
Heroku
Heroku is Salesforce's Ruby-era PaaS.
Live websites1,305Market Share0.05%Top CountryUnited States
PaaS Market Data
Adoption and 30-day momentum across 44 paas technologies, measured from our live detection crawl.
Biggest Movers
Expert Insight: PaaS Providers Market Share & Momentum
Two different kinds of product share this list: platforms you host on, and layers that sit on top of one.
We detect a platform service on roughly 2.70M live sites, and the top six hold close to 86% of them, with AWS at about 38% and Vercel at 19%. Before comparing any two rows here, check what each one actually is. Some are the place a site is hosted, and you pick one. Others are a database, an edge function or a set of backend services that run alongside whatever is hosting you, and a site can carry several at once. The shares are real; the rivalry they imply often is not.
Six names hold about 86% of it
AWS sits on roughly 38% of detected sites and Vercel on 19%, with WordPress.com, Netlify, Firebase and Azure filling the rest of the top six. Read the tail with care, because what each platform reveals about itself differs enormously. Render is identified by a single response header. Cloudflare Workers is identified by a meta tag and by calls to its workers.dev domain, neither of which a Worker serving a production site on a custom domain emits, so its share counts the deployments that advertise themselves rather than the ones that exist.
Vercel is adding sites faster than anything else here
Vercel gained roughly 23,900 domains net over the latest 30 days, on about 33,400 arriving against 9,500 leaving, the clearest gain in the category. Netlify added about 6,500 net, while AWS fell about 9,300 over the same 30 days after adding about 28,000 over 90. Nothing in the top of this category looks like a detection artifact: each of those three has real churn running against real adoption, which is what ordinary movement looks like.
The biggest fall rests on a single cache header
Cloudways shows the largest 30-day fall, roughly 13,700 domains net, with about 26% of its base dropping out in a month, and its only signal is one cache header the host sets. A change in how Cloudways labels that cache would look exactly like this, so the count alone can't separate departures from a configuration change. Firebase, down about 3,800, should not be read as abandonment either. Firebase is detected partly from calls its SDK makes, so a crawl that lands on a page which does not use it records nothing, and about three quarters of the Firebase domains that dropped out had been seen exactly once.
Most of the switching in this category is not switching
When a site stops showing one of these and still shows another, the obvious reading is a migration, and here it is usually wrong. Two in five Supabase sites are running Vercel right now, and of the sites that have ever shown both, nine in ten still show both. The same pattern holds for Firebase against AWS, Vercel and Netlify. Those pairs are a layer and a host, so what looks like a corridor is a site dropping the layer and staying exactly where it was. One genuine migration does stand out once that filter is applied: Render is losing sites to Vercel at roughly 21 to 1, and there the overlap resolved rather than persisting.
Head-to-head comparisons
Market Share
- Amazon Web Services37.66%
- Vercel18.81%
- WWordPress.com8.57%
- Netlify7.2%
- Firebase6.83%
- Azure6.82%
- …Others14.1%
PaaS
FAQ.
What is PaaS software?
PaaS covers the tools a site can load or configure to handle this part of its stack. We detect one of the 44 paas tools in this category on 2,696,412 live sites. A detection means we found the technology on the site, which is not the same as a paid account.
What are the most popular paas platforms?
Across 2,696,412 detected sites, the most widely found paas tools are: Amazon Web Services (37.66% share, 1,015,539 sites), Vercel (18.81% share, 507,196 sites), WordPress.com (8.57% share, 231,170 sites). Others we see regularly include Netlify and Firebase.
Which paas tool has the largest market share?
Amazon Web Services is the most widely detected paas tool at 37.66% share, on 1,015,539 sites. The largest share of those sites belongs to various companies, and to businesses in the 1-10 employee band.
Which industries use paas software the most?
The industries with the most detected sites in this category are Software Development, IT Services and IT Consulting, Technology, Information and Internet, Financial Services, Retail. Industry mix follows where these tools get installed, so a category carried by website builders or agency templates will lean toward the verticals those platforms serve rather than the vendor's target buyer.
Which countries have the highest adoption of paas tools?
We detect the most paas sites in United States, United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Australia. Country here is the company's registered location in our enriched data rather than where the site is served from, so read it as a ranking of markets rather than a measure of any single one.
How do I choose the right paas platform?
Start from your own size, industry and primary use case rather than from share. Amazon Web Services, Vercel and WordPress.com are the three we detect most often in this category, which tells you what is common, not what fits you. Compare their integrations, pricing tiers and support commitments against the workflow you actually run, and check each vendor's own documentation for current capabilities.
How many companies use paas software?
TechnologyChecker.io detects paas tools on 2,696,412 live sites. That is a count of sites carrying the technology, not a count of paying customers, and a site running two tools in this category is counted under each. We crawl 2 billion+ URLs across 29.9M live business domains each sweep.
What is the source of this data?
TechnologyChecker.io's web crawling and technology detection platform. We've logged 2.12 billion total detections over 20+ years, covering 40,000+ technologies across the 29.9M live business domains we successfully crawl each sweep. Detection methods include JavaScript analysis, HTTP headers, HTML patterns, DNS records, and certificate transparency logs.