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Recommend an AI research assistant for company, market, competitor, and industry research using current public sources with citations.

Which brands each model API named when asked this question, and which pages it cited. Answer text is not published.
Snapshot Oct 3, 2026. Each category is re-run in rotation, every few weeks.

Recommendation

Kind of question

3

Model APIs

1

Brands named

13

Pages cited

Brands

Brands the answers named

Ordered by how many model APIs named the brand, then by mentions. A mention is not an endorsement or a position.
Rank#BrandModel APIsMentionsNamed by
1Perplexityperplexity.ai23OpenAI · Google

Model APIs

What each model API returned

One row per model API. The hash identifies the exact answer without publishing it.
Model APIModelBrands namedCitationsDomainsAnswer hash
OpenAIopenai/gpt-4o-miniPerplexity77a895bd8a…6d254
Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5None named0058a6b419…b0e6d
Googlegoogle/gemini-2.5-flashPerplexity776c84834d…3d0f9

Sources

Pages the answers cited

Hostnames come from the URLs the answers returned. Best position is the earliest place a page was cited in an answer.
DomainCited pageBest positionCited byCitations
microsoft.comhttps://microsoft.com/en/microsoft-365/word/ai-research-agent1Google1
reddit.comhttps://reddit.com/r/DigitalMarketing/comments/1nwwn2d/the_best_ai_for_market_research/1OpenAI1
simular.aihttps://simular.ai/alternatives/ai-market-research-tools2OpenAI · Google2
agently.devhttps://agently.dev/blog/ai-research-assistant2Google1
kuse.aihttps://kuse.ai/use-cases/ai-research-assistant3Google1
standard-insights.comhttps://standard-insights.com/blog/ai-market-research-tools/3OpenAI1
duet.sohttps://duet.so/blog/how-to-use-ai-as-personal-research-assistant4Google1
manus.imhttps://manus.im/playbook/market-research-tool4OpenAI1
quantilope.comhttps://quantilope.com/resources/best-ai-market-research-tools5OpenAI1
clarivate.comhttps://clarivate.com/academia-government/scientific-and-academic-research/research-discovery-and-referencing/web-of-science/web-of-science-research-assistant/6Google1
sembly.aihttps://sembly.ai/blog/top-ai-market-research-tools-to-consider/6OpenAI1
analythical.comhttps://analythical.com/blog/free-ai-tools-for-market-research7OpenAI1
offers.hubspot.comhttps://offers.hubspot.com/view/market-research-kit7Google1
Snapshots
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Question set
ai-research-assistants-2026-07-27
Benchmark version
4-ai-research-assistants-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583
What is kept
Measured in Research AI. Full answers are not stored or published, and no customer data is included.

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