Work management platforms for planning, tracking, and shipping projects. Right now, Jira is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 60 and the #1 spot in 22% of answers. Head-to-head: Jira vs Asana →
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.
Project management is a four-way fight with no settled answer.
Jira leads Asana by just 1 point, which is effectively a tie given how differently each model ranks them: ChatGPT favors Asana at 75 while Claude splits almost evenly between them. ClickUp is the most polarizing brand in the set, scoring 70.8 on ChatGPT but only 31.3 on Claude, meaning its AI visibility depends heavily on which model a buyer happens to be using. Linear's first-pick rate of 19% punches above its overall score of 45.6, suggesting it gets chosen first more often than its general mention frequency would predict.
AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.
| # | Brand | Visibility Score | Trend (3 mo) | Mention rate | Avg. position | #1 pick rate | Models |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | ±4.4 | flat | 75% | 3.0 | 22% | ChatGPT #3 Claude #1 Gemini #6 |
| 2 | | ±4.5 | flat | 78% | 3.4 | 11% | ChatGPT #1 Claude #4 Gemini #4 |
| 3 | | ±2.6 | flat | 65% | 2.8 | 17% | ChatGPT #2 Claude #5 Gemini #1 |
| 4 | | ±3.9 | flat | 64% | 3.4 | 13% | ChatGPT #6 Claude #3 Gemini #5 |
| 5 | | ±3.2 | ▼ 9 | 56% | 2.8 | 19% | ChatGPT #7 Claude #2 Gemini #3 |
| 6 | | ±6 | flat | 60% | 4.1 | 6% | ChatGPT #5 Claude #7 Gemini #2 |
| 7 | | ±3.5 | ▲ 5 | 47% | 4.0 | 1% | ChatGPT #4 Claude #6 Gemini #7 |
| 8 | | ±2.9 | flat | 21% | 4.2 | 8% | ChatGPT #8 Claude #8 Gemini #12 |
| 9 | | ±2.9 | flat | 21% | 5.5 | 0% | ChatGPT #9 Claude #9 Gemini #9 |
| 10 | | ±2.3 | ▲ 4 | 10% | 3.1 | 0% | ChatGPT #11 Claude #10 Gemini #14 |
| 11 | | ±2.2 | flat | 10% | 3.6 | 0% | ChatGPT #12 Claude #13 Gemini #8 |
| 12 | | ±3.4 | flat | 15% | 6.9 | 0% | ChatGPT #15 Claude #11 Gemini #10 |
| 13 | | ±3.3 | flat | 7% | 4.4 | 0% | ChatGPT #14 Claude #14 Gemini #11 |
| 14 | | ±4 | flat | 8% | 5.7 | 0% | ChatGPT #13 Claude #15 Gemini #13 |
| 15 | | ±2.5 | flat | 8% | 5.7 | 0% | ChatGPT #10 Claude #12 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: Microsoft Planner (3.1), GitHub (2.9), Todoist (2.9), Atlassian (2.8), Planview (2.2). 39 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 40/100: 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.
AI buying questions are long tail: real buyers ask for their size, industry, budget, and situation, not just "what's the best project management". Each column is one of those qualified questions, scored the same way as the main ranking but measured on the lived surface: real assistant answers with live web access. The slot score is position-weighted: being recommended first counts far more than a trailing mention.
The first column is the overall (unsegmented) pick; the rest are segmented questions — a full row is breadth, a single dot is a niche a brand owns. Overall = the headline model ranking; segment dots = the live, web-grounded surface.
| OVERALL | Company size | Industry | Price posture | Job to be done | Switching from | |||||||||||||
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| Unsegmented | Enterprise | Mid-market | Small business | Startups | Agencies | Ecommerce | Healthcare | Nonprofits | Real estate | Best value | Budget | Free | Client projects | Simple task tracking | Software sprints | Asana alternative | Jira alternative | |
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| Best for | Winner | Slot score | Status |
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| Company size | |||
| Enterprise | Wrike | Contested | |
| Mid-market | Open | ||
| Small business | Contested | ||
| Startups | Owned | ||
| Industry | |||
| Agencies | Open | ||
| Ecommerce | Contested | ||
| Healthcare | Open | ||
| Nonprofits | Open | ||
| Real estate | Open | ||
| Price posture | |||
| Best value | Contested | ||
| Budget | Contested | ||
| Free | Contested | ||
| Job to be done | |||
| Client projects | Open | ||
| Simple task tracking | Contested | ||
| Software sprints | Owned | ||
| Switching from | |||
| Asana alternative | Open | ||
| Jira alternative | Contested | ||