Which software does AI recommend?

When someone asks an AI model what to buy, which products make the answer? We asked 10 models 32 software buying questions and 3 times per wording, and counted every product they named. Find yours to see which models recommend it, what they say about it, how it stacks up against competitors and which models leave it out.

Buying questions: 32
Products named: 542
Table stakes: 162named in nearly every answer on a question; the other 380 are contested

Blind spots

Products most of the panel recommends that some models never mention

ADP Run in 90% of answersNever named by Claude Haiku 5.5
Citrix ShareFile in 90% of answersNever named by Qwen 3.8 Flash
Mattermost in 90% of answersNever named by MiniMax M3
Metabase in 90% of answersNever named by GLM-5.3
AWS in 87% of answersNever named by GPT-6.1 Sol
DigitalOcean in 87% of answersNever named by GPT-6.1 Sol

Model favorites

The product each model names far more often than the rest of the panel

ADP Workforce NowClaude Haiku 5.5 names it in 100% of answers; the other models 0%
BiginGPT-6.1 Sol names it in 100% of answers; the other models 0%
GitHubMistral Large 4 names it in 100% of answers; the other models 0%
LatticeGemini 4 Argon names it in 100% of answers; the other models 0%
ArchbeeNemotron 3 Ultra names it in 100% of answers; the other models 4%
DroneMiniMax M3 names it in 100% of answers; the other models 4%

Share of voice by question

Products ranked by the share of all answers that named them, every wording of the question pooled. Click a product for its full breakdown, or a question for each model's list.

Best CRM software for small businesses

17 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Freshsales HubSpot Pipedrive Zoho CRM Salesforce

Contested

Best project management software

13 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Asana Basecamp ClickUp Jira monday.com Notion Smartsheet Wrike Trello

Contested

Best email marketing platforms

15 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

ActiveCampaign Brevo Constant Contact Klaviyo Mailchimp GetResponse HubSpot

Contested

Best help desk software

15 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Freshdesk Help Scout Intercom Zendesk HubSpot Service Hub Zoho Desk

Contested

Best accounting software for small businesses

24 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

FreshBooks QuickBooks Wave Xero Zoho Books

Contested

Best payroll software

18 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Gusto Paychex Flex QuickBooks Payroll ADP Run Rippling

Contested

Best HR software

20 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

BambooHR Gusto Rippling Hibob Workday

Contested

Best password managers for businesses

18 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

1Password Bitwarden Dashlane Keeper LastPass NordPass RoboForm

Contested

Best video conferencing software

19 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Cisco Webex Google Meet GoToMeeting Microsoft Teams Zoom RingCentral Whereby

Contested

Best team chat apps

19 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Google Chat Microsoft Teams Slack Mattermost Rocket.Chat

Contested

Best website builders for small businesses

17 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

GoDaddy Squarespace Wix WordPress Shopify Webflow Weebly

Contested

Best ecommerce platforms

14 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Adobe Commerce BigCommerce Shopify Squarespace Wix WooCommerce Ecwid

Contested

Best marketing automation software

18 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

ActiveCampaign HubSpot Klaviyo Mailchimp Marketo Engage

Contested

Best SEO tools

21 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Ahrefs Moz Pro Screaming Frog Semrush Google Search Console Surfer SEO

Contested

Best social media management tools

19 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Agorapulse Buffer Hootsuite Later Sprout Social Sendible

Contested

Best product analytics tools

21 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Amplitude FullStory Heap Mixpanel Pendo PostHog

Contested

Best observability tools

16 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Datadog Dynatrace Grafana New Relic Elastic Stack AppDynamics

Contested

Best cloud platforms for startups

22 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Contested

Best cloud data warehouses

15 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Amazon Redshift BigQuery Snowflake ClickHouse

Contested

Best business intelligence tools

17 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Domo Microsoft Power BI Qlik Sense Tableau Looker Metabase

Contested

Best team knowledge base tools

19 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Confluence Notion Tettra Document360

Contested

Best e-signature software

24 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Adobe Acrobat Sign DocuSign Dropbox Sign PandaDoc SignNow

Contested

Best scheduling software

23 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Acuity Scheduling Calendly Doodle

Contested

Best online form builders

17 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Google Forms JotForm SurveyMonkey Typeform Formstack Microsoft Forms

Contested

Best AI coding assistants

20 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Amazon Q Developer Cursor GitHub Copilot Windsurf

Contested

Best CI/CD platforms

19 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

CircleCI GitHub Actions GitLab Jenkins Bitbucket Pipelines

Contested

Best endpoint security software

18 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

CrowdStrike Falcon Microsoft Defender for Endpoint SentinelOne Sophos Intercept X Bitdefender GravityZone Cortex XDR

Contested

Best expense management software

21 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Brex Expensify Ramp SAP Concur BILL Navan

Contested

Best applicant tracking systems

17 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Greenhouse Lever SmartRecruiters iCIMS JazzHR

Contested

Best sales engagement platforms

26 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Apollo Outreach Salesloft

Contested

Best design and prototyping tools

18 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Axure RP Figma Framer Sketch

Contested

Best cloud storage for businesses

17 products named in 30 answers

In nearly every answer

Box Dropbox Egnyte Google Drive Microsoft OneDrive pCloud Citrix ShareFile Sync.com

Contested

Every product, A to Z 542