When asked for the best creator monetization platform, 6 AI assistants named 11 brands between them this month. Gumroad was named most often, followed by Patreon and Substack. 3 brands were named by every assistant that answered: Gumroad, Patreon, Substack.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gumroad | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Patreon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Substack | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Ko-fi | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Kajabi | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Teachable | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| Circle | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | 2 of 6 |
| Mighty Networks | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | 2 of 6 |
| Podia | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Shopify | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | · | 2 of 6 |
| Stan Store | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 5 brands, in this order: Patreon, Ko-fi, Substack, Shopify, Gumroad.
Choosing the best creator monetization platform for a small business depends on several factors, including the type of content you produce, your audience, and your monetization goals.
Perplexity
Named 9 brands, in this order: Gumroad, Podia, Ko-fi, Kajabi, Patreon, Circle, Mighty Networks, Substack, Stan Store.
There is no single best creator monetization platform for every small business; the best choice depends on what you sell and how you want to earn.
Claude
Named 6 brands, in this order: Patreon, Gumroad, Substack, Teachable, Stan Store, Kajabi.
The "best" option depends on your specific needs, but here are the top contenders:
Grok
Named 7 brands, in this order: Patreon, Substack, Gumroad, Ko-fi, Shopify, Circle, Mighty Networks.
DeepSeek
Named 7 brands, in this order: Gumroad, Podia, Kajabi, Teachable, Substack, Patreon, Ko-fi.
The "best" platform depends heavily on what you create and how your audience prefers to pay.
Cohere
Named 5 brands, in this order: Patreon, Substack, Gumroad, Teachable, Ko-fi.
Choosing the best creator monetization platform for a small business depends on your specific needs, audience, and the type of content or products you offer.
The questions asked
- What is the best creator monetization 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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