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Edition 0 · first look

Edition 0, October 2026

What ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity recommended in three categories, with every answer kept and the data open.

Published
Collected
28 October 2026, 18:25–18:41 UTC
Method
v0.7
Benchmark
v1

Reports

  1. AI search visibility tools 1Otterly.AI41.7%2Peec AI34.1%3Profound34.0% 240 of 240 answers 360 brands named read the report
  2. Link-in-bio tools 1Linktree56.7%2Beacons37.2%3Lnk.Bio30.7% 240 of 240 answers 257 brands named read the report
  3. Live race tracking 1RaceJoy26.2%2Racemap18.4%3Garmin LiveTrack11.6% 232 of 240 answers 398 brands named read the report

Recommendation rate: percent of decision answers in which the AI recommended the brand, all four AIs weighted equally.

What we saw

  • 53.3–63.3%of questions on which Gemini (gemini-3.1-flash-lite) ran a web search. ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity searched on 98.3–100.0%.
  • 32–43.5pages ChatGPT found for a typical answer (median), of which it cited 2–3.
  • 5 of 126questions on which all four AIs recommended a brand first and named the same one (1, 2, 2 by category).

Ranges run across the three categories. Each report has the full figures.

What this edition covers

  • Three categories, 60 scored questions each, asked once of each of four AIs with their own web search on, in English and with no location sent.
  • Recommendation rate, top-pick rate, mention rate, own-site citation rate and negative mentions, overall and per AI, with 90% intervals.
  • Every brand named, in the data files.

What it doesn't

  • Cited-page presence: not measured this edition, so the edition is marked incomplete.
  • Change over time: Edition 0 is a first look, with nothing before it to compare.
  • Any particular country or language other than English.

Data

Licence: CC BY 4.0. How the numbers are made: the method.

Version 1, published 29 October 2026. Published editions never change; corrections appear as new, dated versions.