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

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Mullvad takes the top spot in 100.0% of resamples. Of 8 ranked brands, only 4 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=364 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 100% of answers
ProtonVPN locked ProtonVPN — ci 0.86–0.86 · n=364 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 100% of answers
IVPN locked IVPN — ci 0.71–0.71 · n=364 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 98% of answers
NordVPN contested NordVPN — ci 0.43–0.57 · n=364 · 52.1% of resamples held this rank · named in 30% of answers
Windscribe contested Windscribe — ci 0.43–0.57 · n=364 · 52.1% of resamples held this rank · named in 29% of answers
Private Internet Access locked Private Internet Access — ci 0.29–0.29 · n=364 · 99.8% of resamples held this rank · named in 4% of answers
Surfshark contested Surfshark — ci 0.00–0.14 · n=364 · 61.1% of resamples held this rank · named in 1% of answers
ExpressVPN gathering ExpressVPN — gathering data, n=364. 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

0.86–0.86

IVPN

0.71–0.71

NordVPN

0.43–0.57

Windscribe

0.43–0.57

Private Internet Access

0.29–0.29

Surfshark

0.00–0.14

7 of 8 brands measured · 7 dominance edges · 6 rungs · 1 pair the data does not separate