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Public AI Customer Agents brand benchmark

Ranks a reviewed AI Customer Agents brand universe using a fixed, public set of neutral commercial prompts across 3 AI providers.

4-ai-customer-agent-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583

Version

Jul 27, 2026

Published

7

Boards

public-ai-customer-agent-platforms

Method ID

Where the facts come from

Providers
  • Provider

    openai

    Configured Model

    openai/gpt-4o-mini

  • Provider

    anthropic

    Configured Model

    anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5

  • Provider

    gemini

    Configured Model

    google/gemini-2.5-flash

Provider Views
  • Provider

    openai

    Board Slug

    ai-customer-agent-platforms-brand-openai-visibility

    Primary Metric Slug

    public-prompt-openai-brand-recommendation-presence

  • Provider

    anthropic

    Board Slug

    ai-customer-agent-platforms-brand-anthropic-visibility

    Primary Metric Slug

    public-prompt-anthropic-brand-recommendation-presence

  • Provider

    gemini

    Board Slug

    ai-customer-agent-platforms-brand-gemini-visibility

    Primary Metric Slug

    public-prompt-gemini-brand-recommendation-presence

Provider Matrix Version

64232fd32583

How the order is produced

recommendation-prompt presence descending; mention coverage, engine breadth, mention share, citation share, then entity slug

When the method reruns

  • The prompt boards are re-run in rotation, about one category a day, so each board refreshes every few weeks and shows the date of its snapshot.

Boards

Boards using this version

BoardPrimary measureRowsConfidenceSnapshotBoard versionRefreshBoard
AI customer agents rankpublic-prompt-brand-recommendation-presence12100%Oct 10, 20264-ai-customer-agent-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: AI customer agents rank
AI customer agents presencepublic-prompt-brand-mention-coverage12100%Oct 10, 20264-ai-customer-agent-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: AI customer agents presence
AI customer agents citation sharepublic-prompt-brand-citation-share12100%Oct 10, 20264-ai-customer-agent-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: AI customer agents citation share
AI customer agents engine breadthpublic-prompt-brand-engine-breadth12100%Oct 10, 20264-ai-customer-agent-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: AI customer agents engine breadth
AI customer agents in OpenAI model API answerspublic-prompt-openai-brand-recommendation-presence12100%Oct 10, 20264-ai-customer-agent-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: AI customer agents in OpenAI model API answers
AI customer agents in Anthropic model API answerspublic-prompt-anthropic-brand-recommendation-presence12100%Oct 10, 20264-ai-customer-agent-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: AI customer agents in Anthropic model API answers
AI customer agents in Gemini model API answerspublic-prompt-gemini-brand-recommendation-presence12100%Oct 10, 20264-ai-customer-agent-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: AI customer agents in Gemini model API answers

Versioned contract

Complete measurement ledger

Cohort

Not specified.

Prompts

  • Slug

    best-ai-customer-service-agent

    Text

    Which AI customer service agent platforms are best for resolving requests accurately, taking safe actions, and handing off to people?

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-enterprise

    Text

    Recommend an AI customer service agent for a global enterprise that needs governance, permissions, auditability, reliability, and support.

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-saas

    Text

    Which AI support agent is strongest for a software company using product context, account data, technical documentation, and human escalation?

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-ecommerce

    Text

    Recommend an AI customer service agent for ecommerce that can answer questions and safely handle orders, returns, refunds, and exchanges.

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-contact-center

    Text

    Which AI customer agent platforms are best for high-volume voice and digital contact centers with routing, quality, and workforce workflows?

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-regulated

    Text

    Recommend an AI service agent for a regulated business that needs grounded answers, approved actions, privacy controls, and complete audit logs.

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-complex-actions

    Text

    Which AI customer service agents are strongest for multi-step requests that require identity checks, system actions, exceptions, and approvals?

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-multilingual

    Text

    Recommend an AI customer agent for multilingual service across chat, email, messaging, and voice with consistent policy and escalation.

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-buying-criteria

    Text

    Compare AI customer agent platforms on resolution quality, grounding, actions, channels, integrations, safety, analytics, governance, and price.

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-resolution-test

    Text

    Create a reproducible AI customer agent benchmark covering resolution, accuracy, policy compliance, actions, escalation, latency, and customer effort.

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-safety-test

    Text

    Design a safety test for AI customer agents using prompt injection, sensitive data, unauthorized actions, uncertainty, rollback, and escalation.

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-grounding

    Text

    Compare AI customer agents on knowledge ingestion, freshness, citations, permissions, conflicting sources, structured facts, and answer controls.

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-integrations

    Text

    Compare AI customer agents on help desk, CRM, commerce, identity, billing, order, product, telephony, workflow, and custom API integrations.

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-pricing

    Text

    How should a buyer compare AI customer agent pricing across resolutions, conversations, minutes, actions, models, implementation, and support?

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-lock-in

    Text

    Which criteria expose knowledge, workflow, action, evaluation, transcript, integration, model, export, and pricing lock-in in an AI customer agent?

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    ai-customer-agent-shortlist

    Text

    Create a shortlist of AI customer agent vendors for a global company standardizing safe autonomous service across brands, regions, and channels.

    Intent

    commercial

Category

ai-customer-agent-platforms

Providers

  • Provider

    openai

    Configured Model

    openai/gpt-4o-mini

  • Provider

    anthropic

    Configured Model

    anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5

  • Provider

    gemini

    Configured Model

    google/gemini-2.5-flash

Cost Policy

Cost Basis

Provider-reported LLM cost returned by the existing AI Rank provider/cache layer.

Maximum Daily Billed Cost Usd

2.00

Maximum Daily Provider Calls

60

Maximum Daily Provider Attempts Including Retries

72

Limitations

  • This is one response per prompt/provider pair in each run; model output can vary between runs.
  • The fixed 16-prompt AI Customer Agents category does not estimate general market share or brand awareness.
  • Presence share and citation share are relative only to the reviewed 12-brand universe; untracked brands are excluded from those denominators.
  • OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are both evaluated brands and configured model providers; no self-provider bias correction is applied.

Rank Formula

recommendation-prompt presence descending; mention coverage, engine breadth, mention share, citation share, then entity slug

Answer Policy

Published Evidence

answer hashes, deterministic bounded brand counts, and deduplicated URL-derived citation counts

Full Provider Answers Published

No

Full Provider Answers Stored In Public Index

No

Corpus Version

ai-customer-agent-platforms-2026-07-27

Provider Views

  • Provider

    openai

    Board Slug

    ai-customer-agent-platforms-brand-openai-visibility

    Primary Metric Slug

    public-prompt-openai-brand-recommendation-presence

  • Provider

    anthropic

    Board Slug

    ai-customer-agent-platforms-brand-anthropic-visibility

    Primary Metric Slug

    public-prompt-anthropic-brand-recommendation-presence

  • Provider

    gemini

    Board Slug

    ai-customer-agent-platforms-brand-gemini-visibility

    Primary Metric Slug

    public-prompt-gemini-brand-recommendation-presence

Runner Version

4

Canonical Brands

  • Name

    Intercom Fin

    Aliases
    • Intercom Fin
    • Fin AI Agent
    Entity Slug

    intercom-fin

    Primary Domain

    intercom.com

    Citation Domains
    • intercom.com
    Case Sensitive Aliases
    • Name

      Zendesk AI Agents

      Aliases
      • Zendesk AI Agents
      • Zendesk AI Agent
      Entity Slug

      zendesk-ai-agents

      Primary Domain

      zendesk.com

      Citation Domains
      • zendesk.com
      • support.zendesk.com
      Case Sensitive Aliases
      • Name

        Salesforce Agentforce

        Aliases
        • Salesforce Agentforce
        • Agentforce for Service
        Entity Slug

        salesforce-agentforce-service

        Primary Domain

        salesforce.com

        Citation Domains
        • salesforce.com
        • help.salesforce.com
        Case Sensitive Aliases
        • Name

          Sierra

          Aliases
          • Sierra AI
          • Sierra Agent
          Entity Slug

          sierra-ai

          Primary Domain

          sierra.ai

          Citation Domains
          • sierra.ai
          Case Sensitive Aliases
          • Name

            Decagon

            Aliases
            • Decagon
            • Decagon AI
            Entity Slug

            decagon

            Primary Domain

            decagon.ai

            Citation Domains
            • decagon.ai
            Case Sensitive Aliases
            • Name

              Ada

              Aliases
              • Ada CX
              • Ada AI Customer Service
              Entity Slug

              ada-cx

              Primary Domain

              ada.cx

              Citation Domains
              • ada.cx
              Case Sensitive Aliases
              • Name

                Forethought

                Aliases
                • Forethought AI
                • Forethought Autoflows
                Entity Slug

                forethought

                Primary Domain

                forethought.ai

                Citation Domains
                • forethought.ai
                Case Sensitive Aliases
                • Name

                  PolyAI

                  Aliases
                  • PolyAI
                  • Poly AI Agent Studio
                  Entity Slug

                  polyai

                  Primary Domain

                  poly.ai

                  Citation Domains
                  • poly.ai
                  Case Sensitive Aliases
                  • Name

                    Maven AGI

                    Aliases
                    • Maven AGI
                    • MavenAGI
                    Entity Slug

                    maven-agi

                    Primary Domain

                    mavenagi.com

                    Citation Domains
                    • mavenagi.com
                    Case Sensitive Aliases
                    • Name

                      Gorgias AI Agent

                      Aliases
                      • Gorgias AI Agent
                      • Gorgias Automate
                      Entity Slug

                      gorgias-ai-agent

                      Primary Domain

                      gorgias.com

                      Citation Domains
                      • gorgias.com
                      • docs.gorgias.com
                      Case Sensitive Aliases
                      • Name

                        Kustomer AI Agents

                        Aliases
                        • Kustomer AI Agents
                        • Kustomer IQ
                        Entity Slug

                        kustomer-ai-agents

                        Primary Domain

                        kustomer.com

                        Citation Domains
                        • kustomer.com
                        • help.kustomer.com
                        Case Sensitive Aliases
                        • Name

                          Cognigy

                          Aliases
                          • Cognigy
                          • Cognigy.AI
                          Entity Slug

                          cognigy

                          Primary Domain

                          cognigy.com

                          Citation Domains
                          • cognigy.com
                          • docs.cognigy.com
                          Case Sensitive Aliases

                          Benchmark Version

                          4-ai-customer-agent-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583

                          Evaluation Surface

                          Search

                          A common Rank.ai web-search tool is available to all three configured models.

                          Gateway

                          Rank.ai's configured OpenRouter-compatible gateway

                          Not Consumer Products

                          Results measure the configured model/API runs, not the ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini consumer application interfaces.

                          Strict Completeness

                          Prompt Count

                          16

                          Provider Count

                          3

                          Required Successful Runs

                          48

                          Measurement Semantics

                          Confidence

                          A value of 1.0 means the complete frozen cohort passed the deterministic extraction and publication gates; it is not a statistical confidence interval.

                          Citation Share Denominator

                          Distinct answer-level HTTP(S) citation URLs whose URL-derived hostname matches any reviewed brand domain.

                          Presence Share Denominator

                          The sum of reviewed-brand answer-presences. One answer may contribute presence to multiple brands.

                          Mention Coverage Denominator

                          48 answers: all 16 prompts multiplied by 3 configured providers.

                          Provider Citation Share Denominator

                          Distinct reviewed-brand-domain citations within the named configured model API provider's 20-answer cohort.

                          Recommendation Presence Denominator

                          24 answers: recommendation-intent prompts multiplied by 3 configured providers.

                          Provider Mention Coverage Denominator

                          16 prompts for the named configured model API provider.

                          Provider Recommendation Presence Denominator

                          8 recommendation-intent prompts for the named configured model API provider.

                          Provider Matrix Version

                          64232fd32583

                          Recommendation Semantics

                          Presence means mentioned or cited in an answer to a recommendation-intent prompt. It does not claim positive recommendation, endorsement, or sentiment.

                          Enter your website. In about two minutes, Rank.ai asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini 12 questions your customers ask and grades how often they name you.

                          • Your grade out of 100How often AI names you, cites your site, and how high it ranks you.
                          • Who gets namedEvery competitor in the answers, most named first.
                          • The pages AI readsThe sources behind each answer.
                          • Three fixesWhat to fix first, with a brief for the first article.