September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Leader emerging

Salon & Spa Management: AI Visibility Ranking

Booking, point-of-sale, and client management software for salons, spas, and beauty businesses. Right now, Vagaro is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 67 and the #1 spot in 22% of answers. Head-to-head: Vagaro vs Fresha →

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 opinions: salon software has no clear AI champion.

Vagaro tops the overall index but that number hides a real disagreement: Claude rates it 82.5 while ChatGPT gives it only 52.5, a 30-point gap that signals the models are not reading this category the same way. Mindbody makes the split even starker, scoring 51 on Claude and just 17 on Gemini, meaning a buyer's AI recommendation depends heavily on which tool they open. No brand has locked in consensus across all three models, so the category leader position is genuinely contested rather than settled.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Trend (2 mo)	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Vagaro	67 ±3.5	flat	81%	2.7	22%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #1 Gemini #1
2	Fresha	49 ±5.8	flat	63%	3.1	10%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #4 Gemini #2
3	Boulevard	42 ±5.5	flat	53%	3.0	10%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #5 Gemini #4
4	GlossGenius	38 ±3.9	flat	50%	3.3	11%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #6 Gemini #3
5	Mindbody	35 ±5.2	flat	44%	3.1	10%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #2 Gemini #8
6	Square Appointments	32 ±4.1	flat	43%	3.5	8%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #3 Gemini #5
7	Meevo	18 ±4.7	flat	22%	3.1	4%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #12 Gemini #13
8	Mangomint	17 ±6.7	flat	24%	3.8	6%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #9 Gemini #9
9	Zenoti	15 ±3.4	flat	21%	4.0	4%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #11 Gemini #6
10	Phorest	13 ±5.4	flat	21%	4.9	1%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #15 Gemini #7
11	Booker	6 ±2.7	flat	11%	5.3	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #7 Gemini
12	Booksy	5 ±2.1	flat	10%	5.7	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #8 Gemini
13	AWS	5 ±3.4	flat	6%	2.5	1%	ChatGPT Claude #10 Gemini #10
14	Microsoft Entra ID	3 ±3.3	flat	4%	3.3	1%	ChatGPT Claude #13 Gemini #11
15	Okta	3 ±3	flat	6%	6.3	0%	ChatGPT Claude #14 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: Microsoft Azure (2.6), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (2.2), Azure (2.1), Acuity Scheduling (1.9), Square (1.8). 53 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 33/100: 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.