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AI visibility index · AI assistant apps · snapshot 1 July 2026

Which AI app the assistants recommend

35 buyer questions across 5 assistants. Same method as the other indexes, with one twist: here the assistants are ranking their own category. Four of them are themselves apps in it. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini sit near the top, and Mistral's own Le Chat does not register at all.

The second snapshot. Captured 1 July 2026 across 5 assistants, about a month after the first. The chart below shows what moved between the two. How this works.
Number = share of an assistant's answers that named the app (%). Score = average of the 5 grounded assistants. ▲/▼ = rank change vs last month. +/− next to Score = point change vs last month.
# App ChatGPT Claude Gemini Mistral Google AI · web Score
1 —
46
34
40
37
67
45 +2
  • ChatGPT
    46
  • Claude
    34
  • Gemini
    40
  • Mistral
    37
  • Google AI · web
    67
2 —
31
31
40
34
83
44 +2

Name collision: "Claude" is also a common word or a bigger brand, so matches are checked in context.

  • ChatGPT
    31
  • Claude
    31
  • Gemini
    40
  • Mistral
    34
  • Google AI · web
    83
3 —
23
29
34
37
50
35 -2

Name collision: "Gemini" is also a common word or a bigger brand, so matches are checked in context.

  • ChatGPT
    23
  • Claude
    29
  • Gemini
    34
  • Mistral
    37
  • Google AI · web
    50
4 —
14
14
26
26
67
29 -4

Name collision: "Perplexity" is also a common word or a bigger brand, so matches are checked in context.

  • ChatGPT
    14
  • Claude
    14
  • Gemini
    26
  • Mistral
    26
  • Google AI · web
    67
5 —
20
9
14
11
17
14 -5

Name collision: "Microsoft Copilot" is also a common word or a bigger brand, so matches are checked in context.

  • ChatGPT
    20
  • Claude
    9
  • Gemini
    14
  • Mistral
    11
  • Google AI · web
    17
6 —
0
3
0
3
17
4 -2

Name collision: "Jasper" is also a common word or a bigger brand, so matches are checked in context.

  • ChatGPT
    0
  • Claude
    3
  • Gemini
    0
  • Mistral
    3
  • Google AI · web
    17
7 ▲4
0
0
0
9
0
2 ±0
  • ChatGPT
    0
  • Claude
    0
  • Gemini
    0
  • Mistral
    9
  • Google AI · web
    0
8 —
9
0
0
3
0
2 ±0

Name collision: "Grok" is also a common word or a bigger brand, so matches are checked in context.

  • ChatGPT
    9
  • Claude
    0
  • Gemini
    0
  • Mistral
    3
  • Google AI · web
    0
9 —
0
3
3
3
0
2 ±0
  • ChatGPT
    0
  • Claude
    3
  • Gemini
    3
  • Mistral
    3
  • Google AI · web
    0
10 —
0
3
3
3
0
2 ±0
  • ChatGPT
    0
  • Claude
    3
  • Gemini
    3
  • Mistral
    3
  • Google AI · web
    0
11 ▼4
3
3
0
3
0
2 ±0
  • ChatGPT
    3
  • Claude
    3
  • Gemini
    0
  • Mistral
    3
  • Google AI · web
    0
12 —
3
0
3
0
0
1 ±0

Name collision: "Poe" is also a common word or a bigger brand, so matches are checked in context.

  • ChatGPT
    3
  • Claude
    0
  • Gemini
    3
  • Mistral
    0
  • Google AI · web
    0
13 —
0
3
0
3
0
1 ±0

Name collision: "Pi" is also a common word or a bigger brand, so matches are checked in context.

  • ChatGPT
    0
  • Claude
    3
  • Gemini
    0
  • Mistral
    3
  • Google AI · web
    0

Google AI is a single web capture of the AI Overview for 6 of the prompts, not the full set, so treat its column as directional. Every other assistant runs the full prompt set once each.

How the numbers moved

One snapshot is a photo. The index is the film. Each monthly run adds a column here, so a climb or a slide shows up as a line, not a number you have to remember.

Score over time · top 6
JunJulChatGPT45  +2Claude44  +2Gemini35  -2Perplexity29  -4Microsoft Copilot14  -5Jasper4  -2

Does an assistant pick itself?

The sharp question this category asks: when you ask ChatGPT for the best AI app, does it name ChatGPT? When Gemini answers, does it lead with Gemini? Self-preference is read from the open "best AI app" prompts, where no brand is seeded into the question. It extends the engine-bias finding from the other categories. There is no single "AI answer", and here the answer may depend on who you ask in the most literal way.

The surface changed its mind

A month ago Google's AI Overview, the box hundreds of millions of people see, led its "best AI app" answer with Gemini, Google's own product, and left ChatGPT out. That has reversed. Across the open best-AI-app prompts the Overview now names Claude most often, ChatGPT and Perplexity close behind, and Gemini in only half, the same order the chat models reach. A surface that looked self-preferring one month lined up with everyone else the next.