When asked for the best graphic design tool, 6 AI assistants named 6 brands between them this month. Canva was named most often, followed by Affinity Designer and Adobe Creative Cloud. One brand was named by every assistant that answered: Canva.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canva | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Affinity Designer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 5 of 6 |
| Adobe Creative Cloud | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Adobe Express | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Figma | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | 3 of 6 |
| GIMP | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 5 brands, in this order: Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud, Affinity Designer, GIMP, Figma.
The best graphic design tool for a small business depends on the specific needs and budget of the business.
Perplexity
Named 3 brands, in this order: Canva, Figma, Affinity Designer.
For most small businesses, Canva is the best graphic design tool because it is widely recommended as the top pick for small-business design work, especially for quick marketing graphics, social media posts, and other everyday assets.
Claude
Named 4 brands, in this order: Canva, Adobe Express, Affinity Designer, GIMP.
Here are some top options depending on your needs and skill level:
Grok
Named 5 brands, in this order: Canva, Adobe Express, Figma, Affinity Designer, Adobe Creative Cloud.
DeepSeek
Named 4 brands, in this order: Canva, Adobe Express, Affinity Designer, Adobe Creative Cloud.
The honest answer is that there's no single "best" tool—it depends on what your small business actually needs to create.
Cohere
Named 3 brands, in this order: Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Express.
The best graphic design tool for a small business depends on your specific needs, budget, and design expertise.
The questions asked
- What is the best graphic design tool for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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See the GEO suiteHow this was measured
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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