401(k) providers · Named, not rankedAscensus
Ascensus is a 401(k) provider that also appears in the benefits administration category · ascensus.com ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Ascensus has 3.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“Ascensus has handled Vanguard transfers of 401(k)s so badly that a class action lawsuit may have been in the works, so you may want to avoid them.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“Ascensus and Principal are the most consistently criticized in recent years”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Ascensus, over the 15 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 2 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | 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 Ascensus's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Individuals, advisors, institutions, employers, TPAs, banks, credit unions, financial institutions, and state governments
- Customers named
- Control Instruments Corporation
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 15 of the 15 answers that named Ascensus and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-six of the fifty-six domain citations in answers naming Ascensus 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 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,510 | 8 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| News or press | 102 | undated | Benefits administration | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 38 | 0 | 2022-01-13 | ||
| Comparison | 24 | 0 | 2025-10-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 9 | 2 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Conference or event | 8 | 0 | 2022-06-02 | ||
| Case study | 6 | 0 | 2021-12-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 6 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page ascensus.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.