When asked for the best influencer marketing platform, 6 AI assistants named 6 brands between them this month. Upfluence was named most often, followed by Aspire and Collabstr. No brand was named by every assistant that answered.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upfluence | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Aspire | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Collabstr | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | 2 of 6 |
| Grin | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Heepsy | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
| Shopify Collabs | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 4 brands, in this order: Grin, Aspire, Heepsy, Upfluence.
Selecting the best influencer marketing platform for a small business depends on various factors such as your budget, target audience, industry, and specific needs.
Perplexity
Named one brand, in this order: Shopify Collabs.
For a small business, the strongest overall pick is Shopify Collabs if you sell on Shopify, and Afluencer if you want a broadly beginner-friendly, low-cost starting point.
Claude
Named 3 brands, in this order: Collabstr, Heepsy, Upfluence.
Here are some top options worth considering:
Grok
Named one brand, in this order: Collabstr.
DeepSeek
Named 4 brands, in this order: Aspire, Grin, Upfluence, Shopify Collabs.
There isn't a single "best" platform — it depends on your budget, niche, and goals.
Cohere
Named one brand, in this order: Upfluence.
Choosing the best influencer marketing platform for a small business depends on your specific needs, budget, and goals.
The questions asked
- What is the best influencer marketing 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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https://mentionfox.com/ai-recommends/influencer-marketing-platforms