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 reddit

Mullvad takes the top spot in 100.0% of resamples. Of 9 ranked brands, only 7 hold a position we'd call firm.

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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

Mullvad locked Mullvad — ci 1.00–1.00 · n=368 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 100% of answers
ProtonVPN locked ProtonVPN — ci 0.88–0.88 · n=368 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 98% of answers
NordVPN locked NordVPN — ci 0.75–0.75 · n=368 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 97% of answers
Surfshark firm Surfshark — ci 0.50–0.63 · n=368 · 89.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 44% of answers
IVPN firm IVPN — ci 0.50–0.63 · n=368 · 89.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 35% of answers
Private Internet Access locked Private Internet Access — ci 0.38–0.38 · n=368 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 14% of answers
Windscribe locked Windscribe — ci 0.25–0.25 · n=368 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 5% of answers
ExpressVPN gathering ExpressVPN — gathering data, n=368. No bootstrap interval yet.
PrivadoVPN gathering PrivadoVPN — gathering data, n=368. 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.

Mullvad

1.00–1.00

ProtonVPN

0.88–0.88

NordVPN

0.75–0.75

Surfshark

0.50–0.63

IVPN

0.50–0.63

Private Internet Access

0.38–0.38

Windscribe

0.25–0.25