Lab management software for dental laboratories covering case tracking, production workflow, and billing. Right now, LabStar is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 51 and the #1 spot in 31% of answers. Head-to-head: LabStar vs Labtrac →
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.
Three models, three different leaders: no consensus here.
LabStar tops the overall index at a score of 50.8, but that number masks a three-way disagreement: Gemini favors LabStar heavily while ChatGPT leans toward Labtrac at 56, and Claude splits its weight between LabStar and Labtrac equally. Evident is almost invisible to ChatGPT and Claude yet scores 71 with Gemini, meaning a buyer whose AI of choice is Gemini gets a very different shortlist than one using ChatGPT. For vendors in this category, model-specific visibility strategy matters more than chasing a single composite rank.
AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.
| # | Brand | Visibility Score | Trend (2 mo) | Mention rate | Avg. position | #1 pick rate | Models |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LabStar | ±7 | flat | 57% | 2.1 | 31% | ChatGPT #5 Claude #2 Gemini #1 |
| 2 | | ±5.9 | flat | 46% | 2.5 | 15% | ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #10 |
| 3 | | ±5 | flat | 33% | 2.6 | 0% | ChatGPT #3 Claude Gemini #3 |
| 4 | | ±2.7 | flat | 28% | 2.5 | 7% | ChatGPT Claude Gemini #2 |
| 5 | | ±5.1 | flat | 18% | 2.1 | 7% | ChatGPT #2 Claude Gemini |
| 6 | exocad | ±2.9 | ▲ 10 | 18% | 2.5 | 7% | ChatGPT #4 Claude #6 Gemini #7 |
| 7 | Dental Lab Manager | ±5 | flat | 17% | 2.4 | 1% | ChatGPT Claude #3 Gemini |
| 8 | 3Shape | ±4.8 | ▲ 7 | 17% | 3.9 | 1% | ChatGPT #6 Claude #8 Gemini #6 |
| 9 | | ±3.9 | flat | 15% | 4.2 | 0% | ChatGPT Claude Gemini #4 |
| 10 | 3Shape Dental System | ±3.7 | flat | 8% | 1.2 | 7% | ChatGPT #7 Claude #5 Gemini |
| 11 | | ±3.2 | ▼ 5 | 8% | 3.3 | 1% | ChatGPT Claude Gemini #5 |
| 12 | | ±3.9 | flat | 10% | 4.6 | 0% | ChatGPT #8 Claude Gemini #8 |
| 13 | | ±4.7 | flat | 6% | 1.0 | 6% | ChatGPT Claude #4 Gemini |
| 14 | | ±3.8 | flat | 10% | 5.6 | 0% | ChatGPT #10 Claude #7 Gemini #11 |
| 15 | 3Shape LMS | ±4.6 | flat | 7% | 3.6 | 1% | ChatGPT #9 Claude 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: Dental Wings (5.1), Microsoft Entra ID (5), Okta (4.4), AWS (3.9), Dentsply Sirona (3.6). 112 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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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.
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.
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Each model answered every prompt 3 times in September 2026. Prompts are brand-neutral so no vendor gets seeded into the question.