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

What is the best budget laptop

Acer takes the top spot in 98.3% of resamples. Of 7 ranked brands, only 5 hold a position we'd call firm.

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Who AI Cites For This Question

25 cited pages · bars vs the leader

HP's OmniBook 3 16" beats everything else on the budget laptop market right now — if only the pricing were easier to predict | Windows Centralwww.windowscentral.comwindowscentral.com/hardware/hp/hp-…ew?utm=airanks.net80
Best laptops under $500: Top budget choices for 2026 | PCWorldwww.pcworld.compcworld.com/article/699203/best-la…-500.html?id=1015868
The 4 Best Laptops Under $500 of 2026 - RTINGS.comwww.rtings.comrtings.com/laptop/reviews/best/by-…00?utm=airanks.net53
Stop buying 8GB laptops: The best $500 picks with 16GB RAM | TechRadarwww.techradar.comtechradar.com/pro/stop-buying-8gb-…am?utm=airanks.net24

The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

Acer locked Acer — ci 1.00–1.00 · n=417 · 98.3% of resamples held this rank · named in 93% of answers
Lenovo locked Lenovo — ci 0.83–0.83 · n=417 · 98.3% of resamples held this rank · named in 68% of answers
Apple locked Apple — ci 0.67–0.67 · n=417 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 70% of answers
ASUS soft ASUS — ci 0.33–0.50 · n=417 · 79.3% of resamples held this rank · named in 30% of answers
HP soft HP — ci 0.17–0.50 · n=417 · 75.9% of resamples held this rank · named in 25% of answers
Microsoft locked Microsoft — ci 0.17–0.33 · n=417 · 96.2% of resamples held this rank · named in 15% of answers
Dell locked Dell — ci 0.00–0.00 · n=417 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 9% 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.

Acer

1.00–1.00

Lenovo

0.83–0.83

Apple

0.67–0.67

ASUS

0.33–0.50

HP

0.17–0.50

Microsoft

0.17–0.33

Dell

0.00–0.00