July 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Contested

AI App Builders: AI Visibility Ranking

AI-native platforms that turn plain-language prompts into working apps. Right now, Replit is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 52 and the #1 spot in 22% of answers. Head-to-head: Replit vs Lovable →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. The live-web grounded surface is rolling out across the index. Methodology.

Replit leads but three rivals are close enough to matter.

Replit tops the index at 51.5 but Lovable and Bolt sit within 4 points of each other, making the middle of this category genuinely contested. Cursor is the outlier worth watching: it ranks fourth overall yet wins first-pick mentions 24% of the time, the highest rate in the group, suggesting buyers who encounter it tend to prioritize it. v0 has reach, appearing in 53% of answers, but a 0% first-pick rate means it lands as an afterthought rather than a recommendation.

AI-generated analysis of the July 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Replit	52 ±4.6	68%	3	22%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #4 Gemini #2
2	Lovable	49 ±5.5	64%	3	14%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #3 Gemini #1
3	Bolt	47 ±6.2	65%	4	4%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #2 Gemini #3
4	Cursor	44 ±4.4	56%	3	24%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #1 Gemini #4
5	v0	32 ±3.9	53%	5	0%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #5 Gemini #9
6	Bubble	29 ±4.4	38%	3	13%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #6 Gemini #5
7	Glide	26 ±4	35%	4	4%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #7 Gemini #12
8	Supabase	17 ±3.6	29%	5	3%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #10 Gemini #6
9	Softr	17 ±5.3	29%	5	0%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #11 Gemini #7
10	GitHub Copilot	14 ±4.8	21%	4	1%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #8 Gemini #13
11	AWS Bedrock	8 ±2.5	10%	3	0%	ChatGPT #14 Claude #13 Gemini #10
12	Windsurf	8 ±3.5	14%	5	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #14 Gemini #11
13	Adalo	7 ±2.7	10%	4	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #9 Gemini
14	FlutterFlow	6 ±2.6	21%	8	0%	ChatGPT #15 Claude #15 Gemini #8
15	Google Vertex AI	6 ±2.1	7%	3	0%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #12 Gemini

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: Databricks (5.7), Create.xyz (4.9), Retool (4.4), Microsoft Azure AI (4.2), Firebase (4). 92 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 49/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.

What each model recommends first

ChatGPT

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1 Replit

64

2 v0

44

3 Glide

43

4 Bubble

34

5 Bolt

31

Claude

claude-sonnet-4-6

1 Cursor

64

2 Bolt

62

3 Lovable

59

4 Replit

37

5 v0

37

Gemini

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1 Lovable

65

2 Replit

54

3 Bolt

49

4 Cursor

40

5 Bubble

25

The questions we asked

Each model answered every prompt 3 times in July 2026. Prompts are brand-neutral so no vendor gets seeded into the question.

Best overall
What's the best AI app builder? See who wins it →
Use-case fit
We want to describe an app in plain English and have AI build and host it. What should we use? See who wins it →
Top tools in 2026
What are the top vibe coding platforms in 2026? See who wins it →
Startup & small team
Which AI app builder is best for a non-technical founder? See who wins it →
Enterprise pick
Which AI app-building platform should a large enterprise standardize on, considering security, compliance, and scale? See who wins it →
Feature-led ask
I want to go from prompt to a deployed web app with a database and auth. What do you recommend? See who wins it →
If you could pick one
If you could only pick one AI app-building tool, which one and why? See who wins it →
Budget & alternatives
What's the best AI coding tool for quickly shipping small business apps? See who wins it →

Who wins for what

AI buying questions are long tail: real buyers ask for their size, industry, budget, and situation, not just "what's the best ai app builders". Each column is one of those qualified questions, scored the same way as the main ranking but measured on the lived surface: real assistant answers with live web access. The slot score is position-weighted: being recommended first counts far more than a trailing mention.

The first column is the overall (unsegmented) pick; the rest are segmented questions — a full row is breadth, a single dot is a niche a brand owns. Overall = the headline model ranking; segment dots = the live, web-grounded surface.

	OVERALL	Company size				Industry					Price posture
	Unsegmented	Enterprise	Mid-market	Small business	Startups	Agencies	Ecommerce	Healthcare	Nonprofits	Real estate	Best value	Budget	Free
Replit
Lovable
Softr
Bubble
Adalo
QuantumByte
Microsoft Power Apps
Appbrew
Knack Health
Chattee
Base44
Bolt
Glide
Zite
Taskade Genesis
Superblocks
OutSystems
Totalum
Squarespace
Shopify

owns it owns, contested leads an open slot top 3 absent

Best for	Winner	Slot score	Status
Company size
Enterprise	Microsoft Power Apps	77	Contested
Mid-market	Lovable	49	Open
Small business	Softr	63	Open
Startups	Lovable	80	Contested
Industry
Agencies	Bubble	69	Contested
Ecommerce	Appbrew	41	Open
Healthcare	Knack Health	81	Contested
Nonprofits	Chattee	64	Contested
Real estate	Adalo	77	Owned
Price posture
Best value	QuantumByte	58	Open
Budget	Lovable	53	Open
Free	Softr	77	Contested