September 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 73 and the #1 spot in 54% 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. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Power BI barely ahead, Looker right on its heels.

Power BI leads with a score of 72.8 but Looker sits just 4 points back and actually gets mentioned in more answers, 86% versus 81%, so neither brand has a secure grip. Looker's edge with Claude (75.8 versus Power BI's 70.4) keeps the race honest, even though Power BI converts first-pick calls at a rate no other brand comes close to. Metabase is the quiet disruptor, finishing fourth yet claiming first-pick honors 18% of the time, more than Looker and Sigma combined.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Trend (3 mo)	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Power BI	73 ±3.5	flat	81%	2.0	54%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #2 Gemini #1
2	Looker	69 ±2.4	flat	86%	3.0	11%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #1 Gemini #2
3	Tableau	60 ±2.6	flat	72%	2.7	0%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #3 Gemini #3
4	Metabase	50 ±1.5	▼ 6	64%	3.2	18%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #4 Gemini #5
5	Sigma	33 ±4.6	flat	46%	3.9	13%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #10 Gemini #4
6	Apache Superset	15 ±4.2	flat	24%	4.8	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #12 Gemini #11
7	Lightdash	13 ±3	▼ 7	19%	4.1	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #7 Gemini #6
8	Looker Studio	13 ±3.4	flat	17%	3.2	0%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #8 Gemini #8
9	ThoughtSpot	13 ±4.1	flat	22%	5.3	0%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #11 Gemini #7
10	Qlik Sense	12 ±2.7	flat	17%	3.6	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #5 Gemini
11	Qlik	12 ±4	▲ 6	18%	4.5	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #13 Gemini #10
12	Cube	5 ±2.5	flat	8%	4.5	1%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #15 Gemini #9
13	Hex	4 ±2.5	flat	8%	5.7	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #14 Gemini
14	Domo	4 ±2.4	flat	11%	7.1	0%	ChatGPT #14 Claude #9 Gemini
15	Superset	4 ±3.4	▼ 5	7%	4.8	0%	ChatGPT Claude #6 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: Sisense (4.2), Preset (3.9), Explo (3.9), Luzmo (3.3), Vizzly (3.2). 40 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 27/100: 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.