September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Leader emerging

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 59 and the #1 spot in 17% 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. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Four brands cluster tight; no one has pulled clear yet.

Circuit leads at 59 points but OptimoRoute is 6 points back, and Route4Me is right behind that, making this one of the more compressed top-three groupings you will see. The model-by-model splits tell an interesting side story: Claude strongly favors Route4Me while ChatGPT and Gemini diverge sharply on Onfleet, meaning the category result is sensitive to which model a buyer happens to query. Routific is the one brand clearly outside the main pack, mentioned in fewer than half of answers and scoring 20 points below the leader.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Trend (3 mo)	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Circuit	59 ±4.6	flat	75%	3.1	17%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #3 Gemini #1
2	OptimoRoute	53 ±3.3	▲ 12	72%	3.7	6%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #2 Gemini #3
3	Route4Me	52 ±5.5	flat	67%	3.2	17%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #1 Gemini #2
4	Onfleet	45 ±3.9	flat	58%	3.3	15%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #4 Gemini #4
5	Routific	33 ±4.8	flat	47%	4.0	10%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #5 Gemini #5
6	Google Maps	23 ±3.2	▼ 5	26%	2.4	18%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #6 Gemini #6
7	Samsara	15 ±5.1	▲ 8	26%	5.4	3%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #11 Gemini #10
8	Upper Route Planner	14 ±3.2	flat	19%	3.9	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #14 Gemini #7
9	Bringg	10 ±3.5	flat	14%	3.6	1%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #12 Gemini #11
10	Waze	10 ±2.8	▼ 5	13%	3.3	0%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #10 Gemini #8
11	Google Maps Platform	9 ±2.3	flat	13%	4.3	6%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #8 Gemini
12	Omnitracs	7 ±1.8	▲ 4	11%	4.5	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #7 Gemini
13	Tookan	7 ±2.6	flat	11%	4.9	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #9 Gemini
14	Komoot	5 ±2.9	flat	10%	5.7	0%	ChatGPT #14 Claude #13 Gemini #12
15	Zeo Route Planner	5 ±1.9	flat	6%	2.3	1%	ChatGPT 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: Motive (4.7), HERE (4.6), Apple Maps (4.4), Oracle Transportation Management (4.3), Gaia GPS (4). 80 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 41/100: 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.