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T. Rowe Price

#8Best rank (enterprise)
13/14Models named it
1First choices
5Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked in401(k) providers #8 enterprise
What AI models recommend

Read the same way at every company size.

The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.

Why models recommend it

“push for low-cost leaders like Vanguard, Fidelity, or T. Rowe Price”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
“T. Rowe Price (8.5/10) - Strong actively managed funds”MiniMax M2.5 · Comparative question · alternative
“Distinctive for its "advisor-first" philosophy.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“T. Rowe Price for active fund access”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · alternative

What gives them pause

“many small-to-medium company 401(k) plans using T. Rowe as a custodian charge employees high administrative fees”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Recent class action lawsuits have been brought against Fidelity, BlackRock and T. Rowe Price.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“some 401(k) plans from T. Rowe Price can be expensive, especially for smaller plans”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Not the worst in class, but significantly pricier than comparable options”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as T. Rowe Price, over the 31 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

What the models named instead of T. Rowe Price →

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.

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Read the method →

Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named T. Rowe Price 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 25 of the 31 answers that named T. Rowe Price and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com10
forbes.com9
investmentnews.com9
leadchangegroup.com9
planprovider.pro8
401k.is7
adp.com5
betterment.com5
bogleheads.org5
gitnux.org5

No domain is on file for T. Rowe Price, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on T. Rowe Price across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500011
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.2001203
Mistral Small00011
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01012
Kimi K200112
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.501001
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B01001