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 smartphone

Motorola takes the top spot in 50.3% of resamples. Of 6 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

Pixel 10a: the Real Deal, Built for Real Lifestore.google.comstore.google.com/us/product/pixel_10a?utm=airanks.net110
SAMSUNG HHP MSRP Price List - EFFECTIVE March 2026image-us.samsung.comimage-us.samsung.com/SamsungUS/bus…df?utm=airanks.net81
8 Best Cheap Phones (2026), Tested and Reviewed | WIREDwww.wired.comwired.com/story/best-cheap-phones/?utm=airanks.net75
Motorola News | Introducing the moto g power - 2026: Where design meets durabilitymotorolanews.commotorolanews.com/introducing-the-m…y/?utm=airanks.net34
The best cheap phones 2026: top US budget smartphones | TechRadarwww.techradar.comtechradar.com/best/best-cheap-phones?utm=airanks.net33
Call off the search — these are the best cheap Android phones on the market today | Android Centralwww.androidcentral.comandroidcentral.com/best-cheap-andr…es?utm=airanks.net30

The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

Motorola contested Motorola — ci 0.80–1.00 · n=355 · 50.3% of resamples held this rank · named in 86% of answers
Google contested Google — ci 0.80–1.00 · n=355 · 50.3% of resamples held this rank · named in 96% of answers
Samsung locked Samsung — ci 0.60–0.60 · n=355 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 95% of answers
Apple locked Apple — ci 0.40–0.40 · n=355 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 46% of answers
Nothing locked Nothing — ci 0.20–0.20 · n=355 · 99.9% of resamples held this rank · named in 4% of answers
OnePlus gathering OnePlus — gathering data, n=355. 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.

Motorola

0.80–1.00

Google

0.80–1.00

Samsung

0.60–0.60

Apple

0.40–0.40

Nothing

0.20–0.20