2 categories · RankedPubMatic
Why models recommend it
“PubMatic and Magnite are regularly profiled as top SSPs alongside DSPs.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Open marketplaces/exchanges in general (e.g., via SSPs like Magnite, PubMatic, or smaller ones): High risk of fraud”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“primarily SSPs or publisher platforms, not buyer-facing DSPs”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as PubMatic, over the 17 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 10 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 5 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
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 17 of the 17 answers that named PubMatic and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-four of the forty-four domain citations in answers naming PubMatic 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 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |