Public Industry Leaderboard

Smartphones AI Brand Rankings

Smartphone

Smartphones ranking trend

Current Champion

Samsung

AI Index 79.0

Podium Snapshot

#1 Samsung · #2 Xiaomi · #3 OnePlus

Latest Refresh

Aug 12, 2026

10 tracked engines and 30 entities in the latest public snapshot.

Industry Overview

Smartphones recommendations can vary by engine and by prompt context. This leaderboard tracks which brands appear most consistently across 8 major AI engines and highlights where category visibility is concentrated.

Smartphones brands such as Samsung, Xiaomi, and Redmi currently lead the category across 8 tracked AI engines. The overall ranking reflects the latest completed runs and helps benchmark which brands AI systems mention most often.

Use the engine tabs to compare how ChatGPT, gemini, Grok, and Claude rank brands differently. Some engines reward category authority while others emphasize popularity or recommendation style, so individual rankings can diverge from the overall leaderboard.

Why This Matters

AI answer engines increasingly shape how people shortlist Smartphones brands before they ever click through to websites. Tracking this leaderboard helps teams understand category share of voice, spot leaders, and identify where engine-specific optimization may improve visibility.

Current Ranking Takeaways

Samsung is the current #1 entity in Smartphones with a 79 AI Index and 92.9% mention rate. This makes it a useful public benchmark for selecting private comparison prompts, not a guarantee about future AI answers.

Xiaomi is the nearest visible challenger at #2, trailing Samsung by 0.1 points. That gap is the first signal to inspect when deciding whether this leaderboard is leader-dominated or actively contested.

OnePlus rounds out the podium at #3. Comparing the top three against engine-level tabs helps separate broad recommendation consistency from single-engine strength.

The latest public snapshot refreshed on Aug 12, 2026, covering 10 tracked engines and 30 entities. Freshness matters because AI recommendations can shift as models, retrieval sources, and category evidence change.

Entities

AI Engines

Aug 12, 2026

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Ranking Methodology

How this AI brand leaderboard is calculated

AI Index

The combined visibility score used to sort the default public leaderboard view.

Mention Rate

How often tracked AI engines mention each brand inside completed public runs.

Recommendation Strength

How strongly the answer positions, first mentions, and recommendation signals support each ranking.

Engine Coverage

Compare overall visibility and engine-specific rankings

Smartphones currently compares brands across 10 tracked AI engines, including Perplexity, MiniMax, GLM, Qwen, Grok, and ChatGPT and 4 more. Use the tabs below to separate broad AI visibility from engine-specific outliers.

Perplexity rankings for Smartphones MiniMax rankings for Smartphones GLM rankings for Smartphones Qwen rankings for Smartphones Grok rankings for Smartphones ChatGPT rankings for Smartphones

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Leaderboard Podium

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Overall Ranking

Samsung

79.0

Xiaomi

78.9

OnePlus

55.0

Overall

Combined AI visibility across all tracked engines. Default view shows the top 10 entities.

10 / 28 entities Aug 12, 2026

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Rank	Entity	AI Index	Mention Rate
👑 #1	Samsung	79.0	92.9%
🥈 #2	Xiaomi	78.9	82.1%
🥉 #3	OnePlus	55.0	71.4%
#4	Apple	54.8	23.2%
#5	Motorola	54.3	78.6%
#6	realme	51.2	55.4%
#7	Google	50.3	57.1%
#8	OPPO	29.6	7.1%
#9	Huawei	28.0	1.8%
#10	vivo	27.2	3.6%

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FAQ

How is this leaderboard calculated?

Overall ranking combines the latest AI visibility signals across tracked engines for this industry.

Why do rankings differ across engines?

Each AI engine can prefer different brands, evidence, and recommendation patterns, so engine-specific rankings can vary.

How often is this industry updated?

This industry page updates whenever new completed leaderboard runs are available.