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The State of AEO: Q3 2026 Share of Model Benchmark Report

We're directly querying ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews across four industries to measure who AI actually recommends — and why. This will be the first benchmark of its kind for these categories.

What we're measuring

Mention Rate

How often a brand is cited at all across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews for category-defining questions.

Average Position

When a brand is mentioned, where it lands — first-recommended vs. buried in a list of five.

Claim Accuracy

Whether the AI-generated description of a brand is factually correct, outdated, or hallucinated.

Competitor Share

Who gets cited instead, and how consistently — revealing which brands the models default to per category.

Industries in this benchmark

SaaS
15 brands sampled
Medical Devices
12 brands sampled
Manufacturing
12 brands sampled
Local Services
15 brands sampled
How it's done

For each brand, we run a fixed set of real buyer questions directly against ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, record every response verbatim, and score it against the four dimensions above. No brand pays for inclusion or placement in the results — the sample is selected in advance and the scoring rubric is fixed before any queries run.

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