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Brand report · September 2026

99designs 99designs: AI Visibility Report

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When buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini about freelance & talent marketplaces, 99designs ranks #6 of 15, a Visibility Score of 18 in Freelance & Talent Marketplaces .

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.

How AI sees 99designs

One category, one shot, and it's not landing.

Where it wins. 99designs gets mentioned in 38% of Freelance and Talent Marketplace prompts, which keeps it in the conversation ahead of nine other players in a 15-brand field. The 'Best overall' prompt theme is where it earns most of that presence.

Where it loses. Rank 6 with zero first-pick selections means buyers hear the name and move on to something else. Enterprise and feature-specific queries return nothing from 99designs at all, so the AI models have no story to tell when buyers push past surface-level questions.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

On message

How 99designs positions itself vs how AI ranks it

99designs claims Freelance & Talent Marketplaces and the models back it: #5 of 15 there.

The pitch

"The global creative platform for custom graphic design"

Targets Small business
What AI actually says
In Freelance & Talent Marketplaces #5 of 15, claim holds

Homepage self-messaging · September 2026 ranking · the biggest gaps across the index →

Freelance & Talent Marketplaces · #6 of 15

18 / 100 flat vs last month
38%
mention rate (72 answers)
6
avg. position
0%
first pick
5%
share of voice
17.9Jul 2026Jul 2026: 17.915.4Aug 2026Aug 2026: 15.418.3Sep 2026Sep 2026: 18.3
ChatGPT
5
Claude
30
Gemini
20

One of the index's bigger model splits: see where the models disagree →

How the models portray 99designs

Being named is not the same as being recommended. Each mention is graded endorsed (a strong pick), listed (a neutral option), or caveated (named with a reservation).

26% 63% 11%
endorsed · 95% band 13–45% listed caveated graded across 27 mentions in Freelance & Talent Marketplaces answers
Prompt themes 99designs would want to own

Share of each theme's answers that mention 99designs. Hover a row for the exact prompt. Compare shapes on the head-to-head page.

Gaps Enterprise pick · Feature-led ask

Most co-mentioned competitors

Share of 99designs's mentions where the AI models name this brand in the same answer. That is the real competitive set in the AI channel.

Toptal
93%
Upwork
81%
Contra
70%
Gun.io
70%
Fiverr
67%
Dribbble
56%

Scores are measured from real AI answers, refreshed monthly. Methodology.

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