July 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Contested

Route Planning & Optimization: AI Visibility Ranking

Software for planning and optimizing delivery and field-service routes. Right now, Circuit is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 52 and the #1 spot in 19% of answers. Head-to-head: Circuit vs OptimoRoute →

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.

Circuit leads but no brand has locked up the category.

Circuit tops the index with a 52.1 score and gets the first-pick nod 19% of the time, yet its mention rate ties OptimoRoute at 64%, which means the models reach for both names almost equally often before sorting them by rank. The more telling split is across models: Claude favors Route4Me and OptimoRoute while Gemini strongly prefers Circuit, so a brand's standing depends heavily on which AI a buyer happens to use. Onfleet is the quiet mover, holding a 60% mention rate with a first-pick share of 13% despite sitting fourth overall.

AI-generated analysis of the July 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Circuit	52 ±5.4	64%	3	19%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #3 Gemini #1
2	OptimoRoute	47 ±4.9	64%	4	1%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #2 Gemini #2
3	Route4Me	44 ±6.4	58%	4	10%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #1 Gemini #5
4	Onfleet	42 ±4	60%	4	13%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #5 Gemini #3
5	Routific	39 ±5.5	54%	4	10%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #4 Gemini #4
6	Google Maps	29 ±3.9	35%	3	24%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #6 Gemini #6
7	Waze	15 ±4.9	19%	3	0%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #7 Gemini #7
8	Upper Route Planner	11 ±4	18%	5	0%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #14 Gemini #8
9	Apple Maps	11 ±3.8	13%	2	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #12 Gemini #9
10	Bringg	9 ±3.1	15%	5	3%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #10 Gemini #10
11	Tookan	9 ±2.4	13%	4	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #11 Gemini #13
12	Samsara	8 ±4.1	18%	7	0%	ChatGPT #15 Claude #8 Gemini #11
13	HERE Technologies	8 ±4.6	10%	3	1%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #9 Gemini #14
14	Circuit Route Planner	6 ±2.8	7%	3	6%	ChatGPT #7 Claude Gemini #15
15	Descartes	6 ±4.3	10%	5	1%	ChatGPT #14 Claude #13 Gemini #12

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: Komoot (5.6), Google Maps Platform (5.4), Trimble (5.3), Zeo Route Planner (4.9), RouteXL (3.9). 74 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 48/100: 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.