September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Locked up

Church Management Software: AI Visibility Ranking

Membership, giving, and communication software for churches and faith-based organizations. Right now, Planning Center is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 82 and the #1 spot in 78% of answers. Head-to-head: Planning Center vs Breeze ChMS →

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.

Planning Center dominates; everyone else is fighting over distant scraps.

Planning Center sits 39 points clear of second place and wins the first-pick position 78% of the time, making it essentially the default answer across all three models. The contest below it is genuinely competitive but low-stakes: Breeze, Pushpay, Church Community Builder, and Tithe.ly cluster between scores of 22 and 43, none converting mentions into first-pick recommendations with any consistency. One exception worth watching is Church Community Builder, which scores 45 on Claude versus only 13 on ChatGPT, suggesting its AI visibility depends heavily on which model a buyer happens to use.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Trend (2 mo)	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Planning Center	82 ±4	flat	83%	1.1	78%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #1
2	Breeze ChMS	63 ±5.3	flat	76%	2.7	3%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #2 Gemini #2
3	Tithe.ly	42 ±4.6	flat	57%	3.6	6%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #5 Gemini #3
4	Pushpay	29 ±4.1	flat	42%	4.0	0%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #6 Gemini #4
5	Church Community Builder	27 ±5.3	flat	35%	3.3	0%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #3 Gemini #6
6	ChurchTrac	19 ±4.7	flat	28%	4.1	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #9 Gemini #5
7	Realm	19 ±4.2	flat	29%	4.4	0%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #7 Gemini #12
8	Elvanto	13 ±3.7	flat	22%	5.0	0%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #4 Gemini
9	Subsplash	13 ±3.5	flat	25%	5.8	0%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #8 Gemini #8
10	Rock RMS	12 ±4.3	flat	19%	4.8	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #14 Gemini #7
11	Microsoft Entra ID	6 ±4.2	flat	7%	2.0	4%	ChatGPT #14 Claude #10 Gemini #9
12	AWS	6 ±4.3	flat	7%	2.4	3%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #12 Gemini #10
13	Okta	6 ±3.7	flat	7%	3.0	0%	ChatGPT #15 Claude #11 Gemini #11
14	Realm by ACS Technologies	3 ±3	new	4%	3.3	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude Gemini
15	Fellowship One	3 ±2.4	flat	7%	6.4	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #13 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: Azure (3.2), Planning Center Giving (3.1), Servant Keeper (2.8), Church Center (2.5), Blackbaud (2.4). 61 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 18/100: 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.