When asked for the best platform to sell digital products, 6 AI assistants named 8 brands between them this month. Gumroad was named most often, followed by Shopify and Etsy. 2 brands were named by every assistant that answered: Gumroad, Shopify.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gumroad | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Shopify | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Etsy | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Payhip | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Podia | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| WooCommerce | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Fees | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| Sellfy | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 6 brands, in this order: Shopify, Gumroad, Sellfy, Etsy, WooCommerce, Podia.
Selecting the best platform to sell digital products as a small business depends on several factors, such as ease of use, marketing features, pricing, and the type of digital products you offer.
Perplexity
Named 4 brands, in this order: Payhip, Gumroad, WooCommerce, Shopify.
There is no single best platform for every small business selling digital products; the best choice depends on whether you want the lowest fees, the easiest setup, or the most control.
Claude
Named 7 brands, in this order: Gumroad, Payhip, Sellfy, Shopify, WooCommerce, Etsy, Podia.
Would you like more specific advice based on your product type or budget?
Grok
Named 5 brands, in this order: Gumroad, Fees, Payhip, Shopify, Etsy.
The best platform depends on your specific needs (product type, sales volume, technical comfort, and whether you want a marketplace vs.
DeepSeek
Named 7 brands, in this order: Gumroad, Payhip, Podia, Shopify, WooCommerce, Etsy, Fees.
There isn't one "best" platform — it depends on your product type, margins, audience, and how much control you want.
Cohere
Named 5 brands, in this order: Gumroad, Fees, Etsy, Shopify, Podia.
Choosing the best platform to sell digital products for a small business depends on your specific needs, such as ease of use, customization, fees, and integration with other tools.
The questions asked
- What is the best platform to sell digital products 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/digital-product-sales