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 vpn for privacy free

ProtonVPN takes the top spot in 100.0% of resamples. Of 5 ranked brands, only 3 hold a position we'd call firm.

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Who AI Cites For This Question

25 cited pages · bars vs the leader

Free VPN with no ads and no speed limits | Proton VPNprotonvpn.comprotonvpn.com/free-vpn?utm=airanks.net148
How much does it cost to use Windscribe? | Windscribewindscribe.comwindscribe.com/knowledge-base/arti…be?utm=airanks.net139
Free VPN for Windows 10 & 11 | Windscribe | Windscribewindscribe.comwindscribe.com/features/windows?utm=airanks.net88
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The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

ProtonVPN locked ProtonVPN — ci 1.00–1.00 · n=361 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 99% of answers
Windscribe locked Windscribe — ci 0.75–0.75 · n=361 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 76% of answers
PrivadoVPN locked PrivadoVPN — ci 0.50–0.50 · n=361 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 10% of answers
Mullvad soft Mullvad — ci 0.00–0.25 · n=361 · 68.1% of resamples held this rank · named in 2% of answers
TunnelBear gathering TunnelBear — gathering data, n=361. 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.

ProtonVPN

1.00–1.00

Windscribe

0.75–0.75

PrivadoVPN

0.50–0.50

Mullvad

0.00–0.25