AIRANKS — The Authoritative Rankings for AI Web Content

AIRANKS measures AI visibility: we ask AI models real product and service questions, capture the complete answers as immutable observations, and publish what they contain — which brands were mentioned, which domains were cited, and which exact pages were linked. Every domain gets an AIR score from 1–10 (a decile of visibility in the active dataset; 0 means insufficient data), with the methodology in the open.

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The Question

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Best budget smartphone reddit

Google takes the top spot in 84.7% of resamples. Of 7 ranked brands, only 4 hold a position we'd call firm.

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answers sampled
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brands named
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Who AI Cites For This Question

25 cited pages · bars vs the leader

Best Budget Friendly Android Phones in the US : r/PickAnAndroidForMewww.reddit.comreddit.com/r/PickAnAndroidForMe/co…s/?utm=airanks.net231
Best cheap phones 2026 tested — Our top budget phone picks | Tom's Guidewww.tomsguide.comtomsguide.com/best-picks/best-chea…es?utm=airanks.net83
Pixel 10a: the Real Deal, Built for Real Lifestore.google.comstore.google.com/us/product/pixel_10a?utm=airanks.net46
The best cheap phones 2026: top US budget smartphones | TechRadarwww.techradar.comtechradar.com/best/best-cheap-phones?utm=airanks.net44
SAMSUNG HHP MSRP Price List - EFFECTIVE March 2026image-us.samsung.comimage-us.samsung.com/SamsungUS/bus…df?utm=airanks.net33
Ranking the TOP 6 best Android phones under $200 in 2026www.androidcentral.comandroidcentral.com/best-android-ph…00?utm=airanks.net31
The best cheap budget phones of 2026: Affordable options all across Android!www.androidauthority.comandroidauthority.com/best-cheap-ph…1/?utm=airanks.net29

The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

Google firm Google — ci 0.83–1.00 · n=360 · 84.7% of resamples held this rank · named in 97% of answers
Motorola firm Motorola — ci 0.83–1.00 · n=360 · 84.7% of resamples held this rank · named in 97% of answers
Samsung locked Samsung — ci 0.67–0.67 · n=360 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 96% of answers
Apple contested Apple — ci 0.33–0.50 · n=360 · 63.1% of resamples held this rank · named in 15% of answers
Nothing contested Nothing — ci 0.17–0.50 · n=360 · 51.4% of resamples held this rank · named in 9% of answers
OnePlus firm OnePlus — ci 0.17–0.33 · n=360 · 84.9% of resamples held this rank · named in 11% of answers
Xiaomi gathering Xiaomi — gathering data, n=360. No bootstrap interval yet.

The Incomparability Lattice

what the intervals separate, not what the list claims

An edge means one brand's interval sits strictly above another's — zero overlap. No edge between two brands is not a gap in the drawing, it is the finding: their intervals overlap, and the bootstrap cannot tell them apart. Brands on the same rung are incomparable, not tied — the ranking above orders them anyway because a list has to print a total order; this diagram is the honest version.

Google

0.83–1.00

Motorola

0.83–1.00

Samsung

0.67–0.67

Apple

0.33–0.50

Nothing

0.17–0.50

OnePlus

0.17–0.33