ChatGPT is sometimes recommended by AI. Here is its measured AI-Visibility Score, drawn from 4 live AI engines across our 10-category AI-tool audit.
When a buyer asks ChatGPT or Google's AI "what's the best tool for this," only a handful of names make the answer. ChatGPT earned an AI-Visibility Score of 48.8/100, ranking #9 of 256 measured tools. That puts it among the names AI reads aloud at the buying decision.
It was the single top answer 4 times, which is the position that actually gets read aloud when a buyer asks for one recommendation. All 4 engines named it, which is unusual: cross-engine agreement across this study runs low, so a tool present on every engine is not the norm. It makes the ranked leaders in one category only, AI chatbots and assistants, where it places #1 of 8. A tool that ranks in a single category has a narrower surface than its score alone suggests.
AI visibility is winnable and separate from Google rankings: the engines we tested disagreed on the #1 tool in most categories, so a product can be invisible to one assistant and a top pick on another. The lever is being named where AI looks, mapped in the cross-engine comparison and the source-bias data.
ChatGPT was named in 3 of the 10 categories measured and made the ranked leaders in 1 of them. Each table shows that category's ranked leaders, so you can see exactly which rivals the engines named ahead of it and which they named behind.
Weighted score is position-weighted recommendation frequency within that category (a #1 mention counts 1.0, a #2 counts 0.5, and so on), summed across every engine and phrasing. It is not a quality judgement.
See exactly which engines named it, where, and how to raise its AI-Visibility Score.
From the open, CC-BY AI Recommendation Audit: a dated snapshot of what live AI engines recommend, not an endorsement or a quality ranking. ChatGPT appeared in 7 of 550 recorded recommendations. Open data.