When asked for the best online donation platform, 6 AI assistants named 7 brands between them this month. Donorbox was named most often, followed by GoFundMe and PayPal. One brand was named by every assistant that answered: Donorbox.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donorbox | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| GoFundMe | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| PayPal | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Stripe | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Givebutter | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| PayPal Giving Fund | · | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | 2 of 6 |
| Square | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 5 brands, in this order: PayPal, Stripe, GoFundMe, Donorbox, Square.
Choosing the best online donation platform for a small business depends on specific needs and priorities, such as ease of use, fees, compatibility with your existing systems, and the features offered.
Perplexity
Named 3 brands, in this order: Givebutter, Donorbox, GoFundMe.
For a small business seeking online donations, Givebutter is the strongest overall choice if you want a broad fundraising toolkit, while Donorbox is a better fit if you want an all-in-one donation and donor-management platform with simple pricing.
Claude
Named 6 brands, in this order: PayPal, PayPal Giving Fund, GoFundMe, Stripe, Donorbox, Square.
Here are some top options depending on your needs:
Grok
Named 4 brands, in this order: Givebutter, Stripe, Donorbox, PayPal.
DeepSeek
Named 5 brands, in this order: Givebutter, Donorbox, Stripe, PayPal, GoFundMe.
The "best" platform depends on what your small business actually needs — are you collecting donations as a nonprofit arm, running a fundraiser, adding a "round up" option at checkout, or something else?
Cohere
Named 5 brands, in this order: PayPal, PayPal Giving Fund, GoFundMe, Donorbox, Stripe.
Choosing the best online donation platform for a small business depends on your specific needs, such as ease of use, fees, customization options, and integration capabilities.
The questions asked
- What is the best online donation 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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