2 categories · RankedBig Cartel
Big Cartel is an ecommerce platform for building online stores, aimed at artists and small businesses · bigcartel.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Shopify is first at 34%.
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Shopify is first at 31%.
Why models recommend it
“Start with Freewebstore or Big Cartel Gold.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Start with Big Cartel (free for small stores)”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best free/open-source option: Big Cartel or OpenCart for very small stores, but they're more limited”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“best for creators or businesses selling a small number of products; it offers a free plan”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“It's not recommended for businesses planning to grow significantly.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Big Cartel, over the 23 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 22 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 21 | 7 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Big Cartel →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Big Cartel's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Artists & Small Businesses
- Price stated
- plans starting at $0, zero stress.; $0 to start; Includes 7 days free, then $15/mo; $30/mo
- Starting price
- $0
- Free plan or trial
- Free trial; Includes 7 days free, then $15/mo
- Customers named
- Anarres Metal, Hog Island Press
- Founded
- 2005
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 23 answers that named Big Cartel and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty-seven of the sixty-seven domain citations in answers naming Big Cartel came from a third party's page.
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 98 | 0 | 2025-04-25 | Ecommerce, Ecommerce marketing | |
| Template or tool | 16 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 7 | 0 | 2019-06-12 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 4 | 0 | 2024-05-14 | Direct mail | |
| Comparison | 4 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 3 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2025-04-25Behind the shop heather benjamin blog
- 2024-05-14Big cartel bulletin webinars payment methods and more new features webinar or virtual event
- 2019-06-12Swipe and tap your way to faster in person sales conference or event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page bigcartel.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.