ID.me
Why models recommend it
“Government/Healthcare high-assurance logins | ID.me”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“ID.me harvests personal data as a gatekeeper to public agencies—which have no business requiring citizens to use a for-profit intermediary.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Ongoing regulatory investigations (e.g., ID.me's FTC scrutiny and congressional pressure).”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“Faced major controversy over privacy concerns with facial recognition technology”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · warning
“Services such as ID.me and Persona are generally described as legitimate, but legitimacy does not eliminate privacy, account-compromise, or phishing risks.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as ID.me, over the 19 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 2 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of ID.me →
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 19 of the 19 answers that named ID.me and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for ID.me, so its own site is not marked.
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |