Does AI recommend Amazon? ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode data (2026-W43)

Amazon in Ecommerce platforms: rank 11 of 14

• Mention rate: 4.2% of 24 answers (95% CI 0.7% to 20.2%)
• Named first (top pick): 0% of answers
• Average position when named: 4.0
• Own website cited in: 0% of the answers that named it
• Category leader: Shopify at 91.7%

By engine

Websites cited in answers that named Amazon

Domains cited alongside Amazon in these answers (number of answers in brackets): bigcommerce.com (1), woocommerce.com (1), shopify.com (1).

The questions we asked

1. What is the best ecommerce platform to start an online store?
2. What is the best ecommerce platform for a growing brand doing $1M a year?
3. What is the cheapest way to start selling products online?
4. What is the best ecommerce platform for selling digital products?
5. What is the best B2B ecommerce platform?
6. What are the top 5 ecommerce platforms in 2026?

Other tracked brands in this category

Shopify (91.7%), BigCommerce (66.7%), WooCommerce (62.5%), Etsy (33.3%), Wix (33.3%), Gumroad (25%), Payhip (25%), Adobe Commerce (25%), Square Online (16.7%), Squarespace (8.3%), Ecwid (4.2%), Lemon Squeezy (4.2%), Salesforce Commerce Cloud (4.2%)

How to read this

This is one weekly snapshot: 24 answers per category (6 questions, 4 engines), so the confidence interval above is wide for small samples. Engines change their answers between runs. A brand that is not tracked here may still be named; we only track the brands we listed in advance for each category. The data is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: brands CSV, methodology.

Across all 231 answers in 2026-W43, 69% of the 1,503 cited pages were third-party sites (reviews, listicles, forums, publishers) and the rest were vendors’ own domains. So for most brands, what AI engines say depends on what other sites say. Full 2026-W43 edition.

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