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Buying question

How should a marketing team evaluate sampling, repeatability, citations, and data quality in an AI visibility vendor?

Which brands each model API named when asked this question, and which pages it cited. Answer text is not published.
Snapshot Sep 11, 2026. Each category is re-run in rotation, every few weeks.

Commercial

Kind of question

3

Model APIs

0

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

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-miniNone named66032ad514…0016f
Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5None named00bdb6a89e…ced48
Googlegoogle/gemini-2.5-flashNone named7708697cbd…e69a4

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
iab.comhttps://iab.com/news/iab-releases-measuring-visibility-in-the-ai-era/1Google1
morganlewis.comhttps://morganlewis.com/blogs/sourcingatmorganlewis/2024/01/key-considerations-when-evaluating-an-ai-vendor1OpenAI1
marketingdive.comhttps://marketingdive.com/news/iab-shares-playbook-for-measuring-brand-visibility-in-ai-powered-platforms/826830/2Google1
netguru.comhttps://netguru.com/blog/ai-vendor-selection-guide2OpenAI1
prnewswire.comhttps://prnewswire.com/news-releases/iab-releases-measuring-visibility-in-the-ai-era-to-help-brands-publishers-and-agencies-navigate-ai-powered-discovery-302840611.html3Google1
tracebloc.iohttps://tracebloc.io/blog/ai-vendor-evaluation-you-decided-to-buy-ai-nowwhat3OpenAI1
imerit.aihttps://imerit.ai/resources/blog/evaluating-ai-data-vendors-a-safety-trust-and-quality/4OpenAI1
rmgdigitalsolutions.comhttps://rmgdigitalsolutions.com/insights/ai-visibility-tools-how-to-track-brand-mentions-citations-and-sentiment-across-ai-search4Google1
iqsource.aihttps://iqsource.ai/en/blog/ai-visibility-measurement-sampling-noise/5Google1
justintimegcp.comhttps://justintimegcp.com/fda-good-ai-practice-ai-vendor-evaluation/5OpenAI1
linkedin.comhttps://linkedin.com/pulse/how-evaluate-ai-vendors-without-getting-burned-soluntech-sas-bwzme6OpenAI1
llms.unusual.aihttps://llms.unusual.ai/share-of-answer-ai-visibility-metrics6Google1
pbjmarketing.comhttps://pbjmarketing.com/solutions/ai-brand-visibility-audit7Google1
Snapshots
25ba3a56-5ca9-4b7f-b4b8-099d42ce207d
Question set
ai-search-visibility-platforms-2026-07-27
Benchmark version
4-ai-search-visibility-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583
What is kept
Measured in AEO platforms. Full answers are not stored or published, and no customer data is included.

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