Statista
Why models recommend it
“The gold standard for quick access to consumer surveys, global economic indicators, and historical data points”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Add Statista or IBISWorld for formal market / industry reports”Muse Glimmer 30B · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Gold standard for reliable, sourced data and historical trends”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · alternative
“The Best for Industry Reports & Public Data: Statista”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Opaque research aggregators, including some Statista-style databases. They can be useful for desk research, but underlying sources may differ in methodology and provenance may be unclear.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“full access starts higher (~$199/month), so use sparingly”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Statista, over the 30 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 5 | View → | |
| 15 | 5 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 7 | View → | |
| 13 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 2 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Statista →
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 22 of the 30 answers that named Statista and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty-four of the sixty-four domain citations in answers naming Statista 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |