When asked for the best public data API, 6 AI assistants named 6 brands between them this month. Google Maps API was named most often, followed by Stripe API and FRED API. No brand was named by every assistant that answered.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Maps API | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| Stripe API | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| FRED API | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | · | 2 of 6 |
| HubSpot API | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
| OpenWeatherMap API | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | 2 of 6 |
| Twilio API | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 6 brands, in this order: OpenWeatherMap API, Google Maps API, FRED API, Stripe API, Twilio API, HubSpot API.
Choosing the best public data API for a small business depends on the specific needs and industry of the business.
Perplexity
Answered without naming a brand we could confirm.
There is no single best public data API for every small business use case; the best choice depends on whether you need government data, company records, or lead-generation/enrichment data.
Claude
Named 2 brands, in this order: Google Maps API, HubSpot API.
Here are some top options depending on your needs:
Grok
Named one brand, in this order: FRED API.
DeepSeek
Named one brand, in this order: Stripe API.
There's no single "best" public data API—it depends entirely on what your business needs.
Cohere
Named 4 brands, in this order: Google Maps API, OpenWeatherMap API, Stripe API, Twilio API.
The "best" public data API for a small business depends on the specific needs of the business, such as the industry, use case, and budget.
The questions asked
- What is the best public data API 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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https://mentionfox.com/ai-recommends/public-data-apis