When asked for the best gift card platform, 6 AI assistants named 9 brands between them this month. Shopify was named most often, followed by Square and GiftUp. 2 brands were named by every assistant that answered: Shopify, Square.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shopify | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Square | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| GiftUp | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | 4 of 6 |
| Shopify Gift Cards | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Square Gift Cards | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Toast | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| Giftbit | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Plastic Printers | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
| Yiftee | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 6 brands, in this order: Square, Shopify, Toast, GiftUp, Yiftee, Plastic Printers.
Choosing the best gift card platform for a small business depends on several factors, including budget, ease of use, and the specific features you need.
Perplexity
Named 5 brands, in this order: Square, Square Gift Cards, GiftUp, Shopify, Giftbit.
For most small businesses, the best choice depends on your setup: if you already use Square POS, Square Gift Cards is the simplest low-friction option, while GiftUp is the strongest general-purpose pick for small and mid-size merchants that want branded gift-card sales across web, ecommerce, ...
Claude
Named 7 brands, in this order: Square, Square Gift Cards, Shopify, Shopify Gift Cards, Yiftee, Plastic Printers, GiftUp.
Here are some top options depending on your needs:
Grok
Named 5 brands, in this order: Shopify, Square, GiftUp, Shopify Gift Cards, Square Gift Cards.
The best gift card platform for a small business depends on whether you're primarily online, in-person, or both, plus your tech stack (e.g., Shopify, WooCommerce, Square).
DeepSeek
Named 5 brands, in this order: Square, Toast, Shopify, Shopify Gift Cards, Giftbit.
The "best" gift card platform depends on your priorities: lowest fees, easiest setup, best POS integration, or strongest marketing features.
Cohere
Named 5 brands, in this order: Square, Square Gift Cards, Toast, Shopify, Shopify Gift Cards.
Choosing the best gift card platform for a small business depends on several factors, including ease of use, cost, integration with existing systems, and customer support.
The questions asked
- What is the best gift card 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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