When asked for the best manufacturing ERP, 6 AI assistants named 7 brands between them this month. Odoo was named most often, followed by Katana and MRPeasy. No brand was named by every assistant that answered.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odoo | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Katana | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| MRPeasy | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | 3 of 6 |
| NetSuite | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | 3 of 6 |
| Epicor Kinetic | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Infor CloudSuite Industrial | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| SAP Business One | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 4 brands, in this order: SAP Business One, Odoo, NetSuite, Infor CloudSuite Industrial.
Selecting the best manufacturing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system for a small business depends on various factors, including your specific business needs, budget, and growth plans.
Perplexity
Named 2 brands, in this order: MRPeasy, NetSuite.
There isn’t one universal best manufacturing ERP for every small business; the best choice depends on whether you prioritize price, simplicity, or room to scale.
Claude
Named 5 brands, in this order: MRPeasy, Katana, Odoo, NetSuite, Epicor Kinetic.
Would you like more details about any specific option?
Grok
Named 3 brands, in this order: Odoo, MRPeasy, Katana.
Here are the strongest options frequently recommended for small businesses based on ease of use, pricing, and manufacturing-specific features:
DeepSeek
Named 4 brands, in this order: Odoo, Epicor Kinetic, Infor CloudSuite Industrial, Katana.
There's no single "best" ERP for small manufacturers — the right choice depends on your budget, industry, and how much complexity you need to handle.
Cohere
Named one brand, in this order: SAP Business One.
Choosing the best manufacturing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system for a small business depends on several factors, including the specific needs of the business, budget, scalability, ease of use, and industry-specific requirements.
The questions asked
- What is the best manufacturing ERP 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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