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Alternatives to ChatGPT, as AI models named them

In the September 2026 Edition, 201 of the 216 answers collected in the one category where ChatGPT holds a standing named it neither as a first choice nor as an alternative. These are the products those answers put first, category by category and buyer by buyer. The output is the models' output.

Named instead, most often
First choices in the 201 answers that did not name ChatGPT, every category and segment above added together; a product can be counted in several. Each category below keeps its own denominator.

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Onboarding and employee experience. Six framings, twelve models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when ChatGPT is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessChatGPT is #6 of 10 here at 2% of first choices, 13 labels.

Sixty-six of the seventy-two answers did not name ChatGPT; it was the first choice in one. The first choices in those sixty-six answers, seventeen products in all, the eight most named:

9 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketChatGPT is #2 of 11 here at 10% of first choices, 11 labels.

Sixty-four of the seventy-two answers did not name ChatGPT; it was the first choice in five. The first choices in those sixty-four answers, nineteen products in all, the eight most named:

11 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseChatGPT holds 6 labels here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Seventy-one of the seventy-two answers did not name ChatGPT; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those seventy-one answers, eighteen products in all, the eight most named:

10 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

How to read this

A category is asked six ways of each of twelve models on behalf of each buyer segment, so a segment is seventy-two answers. An answer belongs on this page when the judge labeled ChatGPT neither its first choice nor an alternative in it; the products listed are the first choices those answers made, counted once per answer. An answer that named nothing first, or named ChatGPT only in passing, is in the denominator and adds to no product. The counts are not the category standing, which is on the category page with its share and rank; they are the same record read from ChatGPT's side.

Every answer and every label is in the free record. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index, and a product named instead of ChatGPT was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.