2 categories · Named, not rankedInstacart
Instacart is a retail media platform for advertisers, particularly consumer packaged goods and grocery brands · instacart.com ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Instacart has 2.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“Gig Economy Apps (Uber, DoorDash, Instacart, Lyft) ... deceptive pay practices”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“Human Rights Watch specifically raised concerns about these practices across Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, Shipt, Favor, and Amazon Flex.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Instacart, over the 2 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
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A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Instacart's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- people who want groceries, alcohol, home essentials, and more delivered or picked up
- Price stated
- Delivery fees start at $3.99 for same-day orders over $35. With an optional Instacart+ membership, you can get $0 delivery fees on eligible orders.
- Starting price
- 3.99
- Hosting
- the U.S. & Canada
- Customers named
- Walmart, Costco, Food Lion, ALDI, Sprouts Farmers Market, Restaurant Depot, Sam's Club, CVS®
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 2 of the 2 answers that named Instacart and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Instacart 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 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 | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 23 | 1 | 2026-07-09 | ||
| Template or tool | 11 | undated | |||
| Blog | 9 | undated | |||
| Case study | 6 | undated | |||
| News or press | 2 | 1 | 2026-09-09 | ||
| Comparison | 1 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-09Meet clementine instacart s ai shopping assistant that takes what s for dinner off your plate news or press
- 2026-07-09White paper turning the perimeter into a profit engine report or ebook
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page instacart.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. Read September 29, 2026.