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

← all rankings / dataset COBALT

Best smartphone brands

Apple takes the top spot in 100.0% of resamples. Of 11 ranked brands, only 6 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

The best phone 2026: we've thoroughly tried and tested all the top phones you should buywww.techradar.comtechradar.com/news/best-phone?utm=airanks.net203
North America Smartphone Vendor & OS Market Share by Country: Q1 2026 | TechInsightswww.techinsights.comtechinsights.com/blog/north-americ…26?utm=airanks.net113
Best phones 2026 tested — our top picks | Tom's Guidewww.tomsguide.comtomsguide.com/best-picks/best-phones?utm=airanks.net80
Cell Phones | The American Customer Satisfaction Indextheacsi.comtheacsi.com/industries/manufacturi…s/?utm=airanks.net52
We've tested the best Android phones available right now from Samsung, Google and Motorolawww.tomsguide.comtomsguide.com/us/best-android-phon…ml?utm=airanks.net49
Best cheap phones 2026 tested - Our top budget phone pickswww.tomsguide.comtomsguide.com/best-picks/best-chea…es?utm=airanks.net47
Best Smartphones of 2026, Lab-Tested and Reviewed - Consumer Reportswww.consumerreports.orgconsumerreports.org/electronics-co…18?utm=airanks.net46
미국 스마트폰 점유율 : 분기별 데이터 - 카운터포인트korea.counterpointresearch.comkorea.counterpointresearch.com/%EB…0/?utm=airanks.net37
I spent two weeks with the Samsung Galaxy S26, and it's a stellar phone with a few annoying compromiseswww.techradar.comtechradar.com/phones/samsung-galax…ew?utm=airanks.net25

The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

Apple locked Apple — ci 1.00–1.00 · n=360 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 100% of answers
Samsung locked Samsung — ci 0.90–0.90 · n=360 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 100% of answers
Google locked Google — ci 0.80–0.80 · n=360 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 100% of answers
OnePlus locked OnePlus — ci 0.70–0.70 · n=360 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 100% of answers
Motorola locked Motorola — ci 0.60–0.60 · n=360 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 100% of answers
Xiaomi locked Xiaomi — ci 0.50–0.50 · n=360 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 31% of answers
Nothing soft Nothing — ci 0.30–0.40 · n=360 · 78.6% of resamples held this rank · named in 15% of answers
Sony soft Sony — ci 0.30–0.40 · n=360 · 76.5% of resamples held this rank · named in 13% of answers
Oppo soft Oppo — ci 0.10–0.20 · n=360 · 73.2% of resamples held this rank · named in 10% of answers
Vivo soft Vivo — ci 0.10–0.20 · n=360 · 74.7% of resamples held this rank · named in 10% of answers
Fairphone gathering Fairphone — 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.

Apple

1.00–1.00

Samsung

0.90–0.90

Google

0.80–0.80

OnePlus

0.70–0.70

Motorola

0.60–0.60

Xiaomi

0.50–0.50

Nothing

0.30–0.40

Sony

0.30–0.40

Oppo

0.10–0.20

Vivo

0.10–0.20