2 categories · Named, not rankedAlibaba
Alibaba is an online platform for finding suppliers and sourcing products, used in manufacturing procurement · alibaba.com ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Alibaba has 7.
Why models recommend it
“For safer options, consider well-established platforms with robust verification: - Alibaba (with Trade Assurance)”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · first choice
“Alibaba (with Verified Supplier badges and Trade Assurance)”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Online platforms like Alibaba, Made-in-China.com and Global Sources are useful for research... The same listings also carry recurring risks”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Many platforms (including Alibaba) have tiers: "Verified Supplier" is only basic business registration, not a quality guarantee.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Platforms like Alibaba and Global Sources require extra vigilance”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“they should not be treated as complete procurement-governance platforms”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Alibaba, over the 22 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 4 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 2 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Alibaba's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Buyers
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 20 of the 22 answers that named Alibaba and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-nine of the sixty-two domain citations in answers naming Alibaba came from a third party's page. Six were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |