Who Perplexity recommends for AI search engines.
Updated 9 October 202615 Perplexity answers
We asked Perplexity 5 buyer prompts 3 times each on 9 October 2026, with live web search on, and counted every product its 15 usable answers named. This page is Perplexity alone; the full ranking compares every engine and quotes every answer.
Who Perplexity recommends.
| # | Product | Share of answers | Avg. position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perplexityperplexity.ai | 100% 15 of 15 answers | |
| 2 | Google AI Modegoogle.com | 80% 12 of 15 answers | |
| 3 | ChatGPTchatgpt.com | 73% 11 of 15 answers | |
| 4 | You.comyou.com | 67% 10 of 15 answers | |
| 5 | Brave Search with Leosearch.brave.com | 67% 10 of 15 answers | |
| 6 | Brave Searchsearch.brave.com | 33% 5 of 15 answers | |
| 7 | Microsoft Copilot Searchmicrosoft.com | 27% 4 of 15 answers | |
| 8 | Phindphind.com | 20% 3 of 15 answers | |
| 9 | Elicitelicit.com | 20% 3 of 15 answers | |
| 9 | Exaexa.ai | 20% 3 of 15 answers | |
| 11 | Consensusconsensus.app | 20% 3 of 15 answers | |
| 12 | Microsoft Bing with Copilotbing.com | 13% 2 of 15 answers | |
| 13 | Claude with web searchclaude.ai | 13% 2 of 15 answers | |
| 14 | DuckDuckGoduckduckgo.com | 13% 2 of 15 answers | |
| 15 | Microsoft Bingbing.com | 7% 1 of 15 answers | |
| 16 | Claudeclaude.ai | 7% 1 of 15 answers | |
| 17 | Kagikagi.com | 7% 1 of 15 answers |
What this does and does not show.
- Counted from Perplexity’s 15 usable answers of 15 planned.
- Products level on share of answers and average position share a rank: the measurement shows no difference between them.
- Counted as one product under reviewed spellings: “ChatGPT Search” as ChatGPT; “Google Search AI Mode” as Google AI Mode; “Perplexity Pro” as Perplexity.
- AI answers vary from run to run and with each person’s history and settings. This is what Perplexity answered on 9 October 2026, asked fresh each time, not what every user will see.
- One engine and one month. Another engine, or next month, can name different products.
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