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Edition 1

Edition 1, November 2026

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

Published
Collected
29 October 2026, 09:01–09:43 UTC
Method
v0.8
Benchmark
v1

Reports

  1. AI search visibility tools 1Otterly.AI38.2%2Peec AI33.1%3Profound30.4% 239 of 240 answers 342 brands named read the report
  2. AI writing assistants 1ChatGPT39.0%2Claude35.1%3Grammarly28.1% 239 of 240 answers 372 brands named read the report
  3. CRM software 1HubSpot62.7%2Pipedrive51.2%3Zoho CRM48.3% 240 of 240 answers 263 brands named read the report
  4. Email marketing software 1Brevo50.1%2Mailchimp49.2%3MailerLite36.1% 239 of 240 answers 197 brands named read the report
  5. Link-in-bio tools 1Linktree52.2%2Beacons45.4%3Lnk.Bio40.0% 240 of 240 answers 291 brands named read the report
  6. Live race tracking 1RaceJoy20.4%2Racemap18.1%3Garmin LiveTrack11.1% 240 of 240 answers 411 brands named read the report
  7. Project management software 1Asana70.9%2Monday.com50.3%3ClickUp49.2% 240 of 240 answers 212 brands named read the report
  8. Website builders 1Wix58.3%2Webflow57.0%3Squarespace54.6% 240 of 240 answers 239 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

  • 60.0–76.7%of questions on which Gemini (gemini-3.1-flash-lite) ran a web search. ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity searched on 96.7–100.0%.
  • 31–43pages ChatGPT found for a typical answer (median), of which it cited 2–3.
  • 54 of 343questions on which all four AIs recommended a brand first and named the same one (1, 7, 7, 8, 7, 1, 8, 15 by category).

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

What this edition covers

  • Eight 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

  • Change over time: this edition is not compared with the ones before it in these reports.
  • 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.