When asked for the best shipping software, 6 AI assistants named 5 brands between them this month. Pirate Ship was named most often, followed by Shippo and ShipStation. 3 brands were named by every assistant that answered: Pirate Ship, Shippo, ShipStation.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pirate Ship | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Shippo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| ShipStation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| ShippingEasy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 5 of 6 |
| Easyship | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 5 brands, in this order: ShipStation, Shippo, Easyship, Pirate Ship, ShippingEasy.
Choosing the best shipping software for a small business depends on your specific needs, such as budget, volume of shipments, and desired features.
Perplexity
Named 4 brands, in this order: Pirate Ship, Shippo, ShippingEasy, ShipStation.
The best shipping software for a small business depends on your volume and carrier needs, but the strongest default picks are Pirate Ship for the lowest-cost US shipping and Shippo for multi-carrier flexibility.
Claude
Named 4 brands, in this order: ShipStation, Shippo, Pirate Ship, ShippingEasy.
Here are some top options depending on your needs:
Grok
Named 4 brands, in this order: Pirate Ship, Shippo, ShipStation, ShippingEasy.
The "best" shipping software depends on your sales volume, e-commerce platforms (Shopify, Etsy, Amazon, WooCommerce, etc.), carriers you use most, and whether you need advanced features like automation or international shipping.
DeepSeek
Named 5 brands, in this order: Pirate Ship, Shippo, ShipStation, ShippingEasy, Easyship.
There's no single "best" shipping software — it depends on your volume, budget, carrier mix, and where you sell.
Cohere
Named 3 brands, in this order: ShipStation, Shippo, Easyship.
Choosing the best shipping software for a small business depends on your specific needs, such as the volume of shipments, carrier preferences, budget, and desired features.
The questions asked
- What is the best shipping software 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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