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 streaming 2026

NordVPN takes the top spot in 100.0% of resamples. Of 11 ranked brands, only 7 hold a position we'd call firm.

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answers sampled
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Who AI Cites For This Question

25 cited pages · bars vs the leader

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The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

NordVPN locked NordVPN — ci 1.00–1.00 · n=361 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 100% of answers
Surfshark locked Surfshark — ci 0.90–0.90 · n=361 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 97% of answers
ExpressVPN locked ExpressVPN — ci 0.80–0.80 · n=361 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 78% of answers
ProtonVPN locked ProtonVPN — ci 0.70–0.70 · n=361 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 73% of answers
Norton VPN locked Norton VPN — ci 0.60–0.60 · n=361 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 23% of answers
Mullvad firm Mullvad — ci 0.40–0.50 · n=361 · 94.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 8% of answers
PrivadoVPN firm PrivadoVPN — ci 0.30–0.50 · n=361 · 88.3% of resamples held this rank · named in 5% of answers
CyberGhost soft CyberGhost — ci 0.10–0.40 · n=361 · 74.2% of resamples held this rank · named in 3% of answers
IPVanish contested IPVanish — ci 0.00–0.30 · n=361 · 62.6% of resamples held this rank · named in 2% of answers
Private Internet Access gathering Private Internet Access — gathering data, n=361. No bootstrap interval yet.
Windscribe gathering Windscribe — 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.

NordVPN

1.00–1.00

Surfshark

0.90–0.90

ExpressVPN

0.80–0.80

ProtonVPN

0.70–0.70

Norton VPN

0.60–0.60

Mullvad

0.40–0.50

PrivadoVPN

0.30–0.50

CyberGhost

0.10–0.40

IPVanish

0.00–0.30