When asked for the best online community platform, 6 AI assistants named 8 brands between them this month. Circle was named most often, followed by Discord and Mighty Networks. 3 brands were named by every assistant that answered: Circle, Discord, Mighty Networks.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circle | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Discord | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Mighty Networks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Slack | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Facebook Groups | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Discourse | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Bettermode | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Kajabi | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 7 brands, in this order: Facebook Groups, Slack, Discord, Mighty Networks, Circle, Discourse, Kajabi.
Selecting the best online community platform for a small business depends on specific needs, goals, and budget.
Perplexity
Named 4 brands, in this order: Circle, Mighty Networks, Bettermode, Discord.
There is no single best online community platform for every small business; the best choice depends on whether you want *simple setup*, *strong branding*, *courses/memberships*, or *real-time chat*.
Claude
Named 6 brands, in this order: Facebook Groups, Discord, Circle, Mighty Networks, Slack, Kajabi.
Here are some top options depending on your needs:
Grok
Named 6 brands, in this order: Circle, Slack, Facebook Groups, Mighty Networks, Discord, Discourse.
DeepSeek
Named 6 brands, in this order: Slack, Circle, Mighty Networks, Discord, Discourse, Bettermode.
There's no single "best" platform — it depends on what you want the community to *do*.
Cohere
Named 5 brands, in this order: Mighty Networks, Discord, Facebook Groups, Slack, Circle.
Choosing the best online community platform for a small business depends on your specific needs, budget, and goals.
The questions asked
- What is the best online community platform 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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https://mentionfox.com/ai-recommends/community-platforms