DAI
Why models recommend it
“Third-largest stablecoin ($5.3B market cap), fully decentralized.”Mistral Small · Comparative question · first choice
“Fully decentralized and over-collateralized by crypto assets... Used widely in DeFi for lending”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · alternative
“DeFi, collateralized lending | DAI (decentralized, over-collateralized)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“Acceptable | DAI | Decentralized and over-collateralized. Highly resilient”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“These are crypto-collateralized rather than straightforward deposits of dollars... introduce risks absent from a simple fiat-backed token.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“it's more volatile than fiat ones and relies on smart contracts (hack risks)”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as DAI, over the 19 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 10 | View → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 3 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of DAI →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
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 18 of the 19 answers that named DAI and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for DAI, so its own site is not marked.
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 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |