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 smartphone

Samsung takes the top spot in 99.0% of resamples. Of 8 ranked brands, only 5 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

The best phone 2026: we've thoroughly tried and tested all the top phones you should buywww.techradar.comtechradar.com/news/best-phone?utm=airanks.net262
Best phones 2026 tested — our top picks | Tom's Guidewww.tomsguide.comtomsguide.com/best-picks/best-phones?utm=airanks.net182
Best phones to buy in 2026: top smartphones tested, reviewed, and ranked by our experts | Stuffwww.stuff.tvstuff.tv/features/best-phone/?utm=airanks.net89
I spent two weeks with the Samsung Galaxy S26, and it's a stellar phone with a few annoying compromiseswww.techradar.comtechradar.com/phones/samsung-galax…ew?utm=airanks.net83
The Best Phones for Every Budget - 2026 Update | TechSpotwww.techspot.comtechspot.com/bestof/phones-26/?utm=airanks.net56
The best phones in 2026: our 14 favorite smartphones right now - Digital Trendswww.digitaltrends.comdigitaltrends.com/phones/best-smar…s/?utm=airanks.net34
Samsung Unveils Galaxy S26 Series: The Most Intuitive Galaxy AI Phone Yet – Samsung Global Newsroomnews.samsung.comnews.samsung.com/global/samsung-un…et?utm=airanks.net32
Explore the Latest Galaxy Smartphones | Samsung USwww.samsung.comsamsung.com/us/smartphones/?utm=airanks.net28
Google Pixel 11 Pro XL vs Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra - which Android flagship will win?www.tomsguide.comtomsguide.com/phones/samsung-phone…ce?utm=airanks.net28
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: A taste of what's to comewww.digitalcameraworld.comdigitalcameraworld.com/tech/androi…ew?utm=airanks.net27

The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

Samsung locked Samsung — ci 1.00–1.00 · n=357 · 99.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 100% of answers
Apple locked Apple — ci 0.86–0.86 · n=357 · 99.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 100% of answers
Google locked Google — ci 0.71–0.71 · n=357 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 96% of answers
OnePlus locked OnePlus — ci 0.57–0.57 · n=357 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 14% of answers
Motorola locked Motorola — ci 0.43–0.43 · n=357 · 98.2% of resamples held this rank · named in 3% of answers
Nothing gathering Nothing — gathering data, n=357. No bootstrap interval yet.
Xiaomi gathering Xiaomi — gathering data, n=357. No bootstrap interval yet.
ASUS gathering ASUS — gathering data, n=357. 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.

Samsung

1.00–1.00

Apple

0.86–0.86

Google

0.71–0.71

OnePlus

0.57–0.57

Motorola

0.43–0.43