Index › HR › Products › Prudential · November 2026 Edition
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Prudential

–Too few to rank
9/14Models named it
0First choices
14Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked in401(k) providers #81 mid-market
What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Prudential has 5.

Why models recommend it

No positive label carried a quote.

What gives them pause

“Specific Providers to Avoid or Be Cautious About ... consistently rank among the most expensive 401(k) providers”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“Insurance company plans (AXA, VALIC, Prudential) typically add 0.50-1.00% in extra costs.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“criticized for adding significant costs (0.50–1.00% extra) and poor fund choices”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Insurance company plans, such as AXA, VALIC, or Prudential, which may add extra costs.”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Prudential, over the 19 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

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

The sites and pages the answers that named Prudential came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 18 of the 19 answers that named Prudential and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com12
investmentnews.com10
metalsretirement.com10
employeefiduciary.com7
news.bloomberglaw.com6
purposefulfinance.org6
jdsupra.com5
propublica.org5
401kspecialistmag.com4
bogleheads.org4

No domain is on file for Prudential, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Prudential across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2000000
Mistral Small00011
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00011
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00011
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00011