2 categories · Named, not rankedGoogle Maps
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Google Maps has 8.
Why models recommend it
“Start with Google Maps if you're cost-conscious and need basics.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“start with free alternatives like Byteplant or Google Maps to test performance”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Google | Global apps; Maps integration | 5,000 free/mo, then $17/1,000”Kimi K2 · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“Simple turn-by-turn navigation with manual stop management”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
“unlike general tools like Google Maps or Route4Me, which lack sales-specific features”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Google Maps, over the 25 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 12 | View → | |
| 6 | 4 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Google Maps's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Founded
- 1998
- Also from Google
- Adometry, Attribution 360, BigQuery, Firebase, Google ADH, Google Ad Manager and 83 more
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 23 of the 25 answers that named Google Maps and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty-nine of the sixty-nine domain citations in answers naming Google Maps 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |