Feature-led ask · Prompt 6 of 8 · July 2026

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

“I want design freedom plus a CMS for our blog. What do you recommend?”

ChatGPT answered 3× this snapshot

…depending on that balance: If you want maximum design freedom (custom frontend): Sanity + Next.js (or similar) This is a really popular setup. Sanity is a headless CMS with a great editor experience, and you build your site however you want in code. Total control over design, performance, and structure. Downside: requires a developer (or you being comfortable coding). Contentful / Hygraph + custom frontend Similar…

Named across its answers: 1. Sanity2. Webflow3. Contentful4. WordPress5. Framer

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

Sanity's average position of 2.1 beats Webflow's 3, meaning Sanity lands higher in the answer stack even though Webflow holds a perfect 9-of-9 mention rate. Wix, Squarespace, and Shopify are entirely absent here, signaling that AI models treat this feature-specific prompt as a different consideration set than the broader category rankings.

AI-generated read of the July 2026 measurements.

Who wins this question

Contested Consensus

All three models name Sanity, Webflow, Contentful, WordPress and Ghost on this question.

ChatGPT

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Gemini mentioned · first · avg. pos

Webflow 314274114 9/9 · 3× first · #3

Sanity 12131243 8/9 · 3× first · #2.1

Contentful 23242342 8/9 · never first · #2.8

WordPress 55716158 8/9 · 2× first · #4.8

Framer 45223 5/9 · never first · #3.2

Ghost 65375 5/9 · never first · #5.2

Strapi 45 2/9 · never first · #4.5

Bricks Builder 66 2/9 · never first · #6

Sanity.io 1 1/9 · 1× first · #1

Hygraph 3 1/9 · never first · #3

Storyblok 3 1/9 · never first · #3

Directus 4 1/9 · never first · #4

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 15 brands named at least once. Never mentioned here: Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Adobe Experience Manager, Unbounce, Sitecore, Drupal, Acquia, Carrd, Hostinger.