# Pa11y: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 1 category by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/pa11y

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Website governance and accessibility](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/marketing/website-governance-and-accessibility/index.md) | 0% | 31 | 0% | 3 |

## What the models said for it

- "Pa11y (Open Source). An open-source command-line interface that developers can set up to run automated accessibility checks" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Website governance)

## 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Pa11y, from 5 of the 5 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- testparty.ai: 4
- g2.com: 3
- accessibilitychecker.com: 2
- capterra.com: 2
- eaapass.eu: 2
- ratedwithai.com: 2
- silktide.com: 2
- softwareadvice.com: 2
- a11ypulse.com: 1
- a11ywatch.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://accessibilitychecker.com/news/best-siteimprove-alternatives: 2
- https://eaapass.eu/en/blog/siteimprove-alternative: 2
- https://ratedwithai.com/blog/best-ada-compliance-software: 2
- https://silktide.com/blog/best-web-governance-platforms: 2
- https://testparty.ai/blog/siteimprove-alternatives-2026: 2
- http://mimage.opentext.com/alt_content/binary/pdf/Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-for-Enterprise-Content-Management-23-09-2013.pdf: 1
- https://a11ypulse.com/comparisons: 1
- https://a11ywatch.com/website-accessibility-checker: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/gtm.