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 for the money

Google takes the top spot in 100.0% of resamples. All 6 ranked brands hold positions we'd call firm.

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answers sampled
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brands named
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bootstrap resamples

Who AI Cites For This Question

25 cited pages · bars vs the leader

Pixel 10a: the Real Deal, Built for Real Lifestore.google.comstore.google.com/us/product/pixel_10a?utm=airanks.net120
Buy Galaxy A57 5G | Price & Offers | Samsung USwww.samsung.comsamsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-…a/?utm=airanks.net107
Best cheap phones 2026 tested — Our top budget phone picks | Tom's Guidewww.tomsguide.comtomsguide.com/best-picks/best-chea…es?utm=airanks.net90
The best Samsung phone might not be the best for you — take our quiz to find out which you should buy | Tom's Guidewww.tomsguide.comtomsguide.com/best-picks/best-sams…ne?utm=airanks.net67
The best cheap phones 2026: top US budget smartphones | TechRadarwww.techradar.comtechradar.com/best/best-cheap-phones?utm=airanks.net46
Google announces the new Pixel 10a for $499blog.googleblog.google/products-and-platforms…a/?utm=airanks.net38
Samsung Galaxy S26 review: a stellar phone with a few annoying compromises | TechRadarwww.techradar.comtechradar.com/phones/samsung-galax…ew?utm=airanks.net36

The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

Google locked Google — ci 1.00–1.00 · n=354 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 97% of answers
Apple locked Apple — ci 0.80–0.80 · n=354 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 98% of answers
Samsung locked Samsung — ci 0.60–0.60 · n=354 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 92% of answers
Motorola locked Motorola — ci 0.40–0.40 · n=354 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 55% of answers
OnePlus locked OnePlus — ci 0.20–0.20 · n=354 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 34% of answers
Nothing locked Nothing — ci 0.00–0.00 · n=354 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 6% of answers

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

1.00–1.00

Apple

0.80–0.80

Samsung

0.60–0.60

Motorola

0.40–0.40

OnePlus

0.20–0.20

Nothing

0.00–0.00