ProGuard/R8
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. ProGuard/R8 has 4.
Why models recommend it
“Prefer open-source or transparent alternatives: ProGuard / R8 (standard in modern Android builds)”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“Android only, minimum spend: start with ProGuard/R8 built-in”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Excellent for basic code shrinking, optimization, and obfuscation on Android... It's zero-cost but requires more manual setup.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“combine Free-RASP (free) with ProGuard/R8 (built into Android)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as ProGuard/R8, over the 10 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → |
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 10 of the 10 answers that named ProGuard/R8 and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for ProGuard/R8, so its own site is not marked. Four were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
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 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |