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July 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Contested

BI & Data Analytics: AI Visibility Ranking

Business intelligence platforms for dashboards and self-serve analytics. Right now, Power BI is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 70 and the #1 spot in 50% of answers. Head-to-head: Power BI vs Looker →

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.

Power BI leads on first picks, Looker leads on presence.

Power BI wins the first-pick contest at 50% but Looker actually appears in more answers, 88% versus 79%, suggesting models treat Looker as a safe supporting mention rather than a top recommendation. Tableau sits third in score yet almost never gets picked first at 1.4%, which means it functions as a credible filler name rather than a genuine contender. Claude drops Sigma to a score of 10 while ChatGPT and Gemini rate it around 40, a gap that wide usually signals one model has a strong negative prior on the brand's enterprise fit.

AI-generated analysis of the July 2026 measurements.

# Brand Visibility Score Mention rate Avg. position #1 pick rate Models
1 Power BI
70
±4.9
79% 2 50% ChatGPT #1 Claude #2 Gemini #1
2 Looker
70
±1.5
88% 3 13% ChatGPT #2 Claude #1 Gemini #2
3 Tableau
61
±4
74% 3 1% ChatGPT #3 Claude #3 Gemini #3
4 Metabase
49
±3.4
63% 3 19% ChatGPT #4 Claude #4 Gemini #4
5 Sigma
31
±4.6
44% 4 10% ChatGPT #5 Claude #11 Gemini #5
6 Lightdash
18
±3.1
29% 5 0% ChatGPT #8 Claude #8 Gemini #6
7 ThoughtSpot
16
±3.7
26% 5 0% ChatGPT #7 Claude #10 Gemini #8
8 Looker Studio
13
±2.9
18% 4 0% ChatGPT #10 Claude #9 Gemini #7
9 Apache Superset
10
±3.5
17% 5 0% ChatGPT #6 Claude #12 Gemini
10 Superset
9
±3.7
17% 6 0% ChatGPT #12 Claude #6 Gemini
11 Qlik Sense
8
±2.7
11% 4 0% ChatGPT #14 Claude #5 Gemini
12 Qlik
7
±4.4
11% 5 0% ChatGPT #11 Claude #13 Gemini #10
13 Hex
6
±2.3
10% 4 1% ChatGPT #9 Claude #14 Gemini
14 Redash
6
±3.8
8% 4 0% ChatGPT #13 Claude #7 Gemini
15 Cube
5
±1.6
10% 5 3% ChatGPT #15 Claude #15 Gemini #9

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: Sisense (4.6), Luzmo (4.6), Explo (4.2), Evidence (3.9), MicroStrategy (3.9). 58 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 30/100: 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
0 25 50 75 100 Visibility Score · 0 = never mentioned, 100 = always the first recommendation Power BI Looker Tableau Metabase Sigma Lightdash ThoughtSpot Looker Studio Apache Superset Superset

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.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Position in the answer · 1 = the first product recommended Power BI Looker Tableau Metabase Sigma Lightdash ThoughtSpot Looker Studio Apache Superset Superset

What each model recommends first

ChatGPT

gpt-5.3-chat-latest

1 Power BI
78
2 Looker
73
3 Tableau
65
4 Metabase
43
5 Sigma
39

Claude

claude-sonnet-4-6

1 Looker
73
2 Power BI
67
3 Tableau
67
4 Metabase
58
5 Qlik Sense
22

Gemini

gemini-3-flash-preview

1 Power BI
66
2 Looker
65
3 Tableau
53
4 Metabase
48
5 Sigma
43

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.

  1. Best overall
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  2. Use-case fit
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  3. Top tools in 2026
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  4. Startup & small team
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  5. Enterprise pick
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  6. Feature-led ask
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  7. If you could pick one
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  8. Budget & alternatives
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