Google Places API
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Google Places API has 3.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“Avoid Relying Solely on Google Maps / Google Places API”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · warning
“Great UX for autocomplete, but *not* a substitute for true CASS/postal-certified verification or delivery validation.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · warning
“not a deep database verification (it relies on public map data rather than postal records)”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Google Places API, over the 7 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 7 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 1 | 0 | View → | |
| 1 | 0 | View → | |
| 1 | 0 | View → | |
| 1 | 0 | View → | |
| 1 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Google Places API'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 4 of the 7 answers that named Google Places API and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty of the twenty domain citations in answers naming Google Places API 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |