When asked for the best AI image generator, 6 AI assistants named 5 brands between them this month. Midjourney was named most often, followed by Canva and Adobe Firefly. One brand was named by every assistant that answered: Midjourney.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midjourney | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Canva | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Adobe Firefly | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Ideogram | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Stable Diffusion | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 3 brands, in this order: Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Canva.
Selecting the best AI image generator for a small business depends on several factors, including budget, the complexity of images you want to create, ease of use, and specific features you might need.
Perplexity
Named 4 brands, in this order: Canva, Adobe Firefly, Ideogram, Midjourney.
For most small businesses, the best all-around choice is Canva’s AI image generator because it combines image generation with templates, brand assets, and easy collaboration in one tool.
Claude
Named 3 brands, in this order: Canva, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney.
Here are the top options to consider, depending on your needs:
Grok
Named 4 brands, in this order: Canva, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Ideogram.
DeepSeek
Named 4 brands, in this order: Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Ideogram, Stable Diffusion.
The "best" AI image generator for a small business depends on your specific needs—budget, use case (product mockups vs.
Cohere
Named 2 brands, in this order: Stable Diffusion, Canva.
Choosing the best AI image generator for a small business depends on your specific needs, budget, and the type of images you want to create.
The questions asked
- What is the best AI image generator for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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