Best overall · Prompt 1 of 8 · July 2026

A real buyer question from the July 2026 snapshot, asked 3× to each of the three models. 9 answers recorded.

“What's the best inventory planning software for an ecommerce brand?”

ChatGPT answered 3× this snapshot

…is really for. If you just want the short answer: Early-stage Shopify brands → Stocky or Inventory Planner Scaling DTC (multi-channel, 7–9 figures) → Inventory Planner, Cogsy, or Netstock Complex ops / wholesale + retail + manufacturing → NetSuite or Cin7 Data-heavy operators who want forecasting control → Cogsy or Lokad Now the real breakdown: If you're a typical Shopify-based ecommerce brand (especially DTC)…

Named across its answers: 1. Inventory Planner2. Cogsy3. Netstock4. Stocky5. Cin7

Verbatim excerpt from one collected ChatGPT answer; formatting flattened, words untouched.

Inventory Planner dominates this question completely, appearing in all 9 answers with a 1.7 average position and leading 6 times, making it the clear default recommendation across all three AI models. Stocky holds a distant second at position 4.9, while top-ranked category players like Blue Yonder and SAP IBP went unmentioned, meaning enterprise solutions are losing AI-driven consideration for ecommerce buyers entirely.

AI-generated read of the July 2026 measurements.

Who wins this question

Owned Consensus

All three models name Inventory Planner, Stocky, Cin7 and NetSuite on this question.

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini mentioned · first · avg. pos

Inventory Planner 213114111 9/9 · 6× first · #1.7

Cin7 6664344 7/9 · never first · #4.7

Stocky 1187656 7/9 · 2× first · #4.9

NetSuite 538276 6/9 · never first · #5.2

Brightpearl 2314 4/9 · 1× first · #2.5

Cogsy 3249 4/9 · never first · #4.5

Extensiv 5535 4/9 · never first · #4.5

Linnworks 7663 4/9 · never first · #5.5

SoStocked 322 3/9 · never first · #2.3

Netstock 445 3/9 · never first · #4.3

Prediko 22 2/9 · never first · #2

Skubana 42 2/9 · never first · #3

Each square is one collected answer; the number is the brand's position in that answer. Lime = the very first recommendation. Unlinked brands were named by the models here but sit outside this category's published top 15 overall. Showing the top 12 of 21 brands named at least once. Never mentioned here: Blue Yonder, SAP IBP, o9 Solutions, Kinaxis, Kinaxis RapidResponse.