When asked for the best proxy provider, 6 AI assistants named 8 brands between them this month. Oxylabs was named most often, followed by Mobile and Residential. No brand was named by every assistant that answered.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxylabs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Mobile | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Residential | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Smartproxy | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Datacenter | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Bright Data | · | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | 2 of 6 |
| IPRoyal | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | 2 of 6 |
| Webshare | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 3 brands, in this order: Residential, Mobile, Oxylabs.
Selecting the best proxy provider for a small business depends on specific needs, such as the type of proxies required (e.g., residential, data center, or mobile), budget, required locations, and performance criteria.
Perplexity
Named 3 brands, in this order: Smartproxy, Webshare, Oxylabs.
For a small business, the most consistently recommended choice in the results is Decodo (formerly Smartproxy).
Claude
Named 8 brands, in this order: Bright Data, Oxylabs, Smartproxy, IPRoyal, Webshare, Residential, Datacenter, Mobile.
Here are some top options depending on your needs:
Grok
Named 6 brands, in this order: Smartproxy, Residential, Datacenter, IPRoyal, Mobile, Oxylabs.
DeepSeek
Named 3 brands, in this order: Residential, Datacenter, Mobile.
I can't recommend specific proxy providers by name, since what's "best" depends heavily on your specific use case, budget, and technical needs.
Cohere
Named 3 brands, in this order: Bright Data, Smartproxy, Oxylabs.
Choosing the best proxy provider for a small business depends on your specific needs, such as budget, use case (e.g., web scraping, ad verification, market research, or bypassing geo-restrictions), and required features (e.g., residential, datacenter, or mobile proxies).
The questions asked
- What is the best proxy provider 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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