What are the 5 best AI tools?

Asked "What are the 5 best AI tools?", ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Perplexity named 23 distinct tools across 40 answers on September 7, 2026, and 19 of them in two or more answers, and all 5 engines agreed on ChatGPT, the only tool every engine named.

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19 of 23 names confirmed · named in 2 or more of 40 answers · asked September 7, 2026 · 5 engines

1ChatGPTnamed in 36 of 40 answers
2Claudenamed in 35 of 40 answers
3Perplexitynamed in 26 of 40 answers
4Gemininamed in 24 of 40 answers
5Midjourneynamed in 21 of 40 answers
6Cursornamed in 16 of 40 answers
7Google Gemininamed in 8 of 40 answers
8GitHub Copilotnamed in 6 of 40 answers
9ElevenLabsnamed in 6 of 40 answers
10Canva Magic Studionamed in 3 of 40 answers
11NotebookLMnamed in 3 of 40 answers
12DALL·E 3named in 3 of 40 answers
13Synthesianamed in 3 of 40 answers
14Microsoft Copilotnamed in 3 of 40 answers
15Jaspernamed in 2 of 40 answers
16ChatGPT-5named in 2 of 40 answers
17OpenAI ChatGPTnamed in 2 of 40 answers
18GitHub Copilot Xnamed in 2 of 40 answers
19MidJourney V6named in 2 of 40 answers
20Anthropic Claudenamed in 1 of 40 answersone answer
21Perplexity AI Perplexitynamed in 1 of 40 answersone answer
22Perplexity AInamed in 1 of 40 answersone answer
23Zapier AInamed in 1 of 40 answersone answer

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The full measurement

The position each of the 5 engines gave all 23 names.
How many of the 40 answers named each of them.
200 sampled observations behind this ranking, and where the engines disagree.
Fan-out — the query each engine actually searched.
Every citation, and the sources nobody cited.

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