Public Industry Leaderboard

Specialty Retailers: Other Claude AI Rankings

Specialty Retailers: Other ranking trend

Current Champion

REI

AI Index 65.3

Podium Snapshot

#1 REI · #2 Staples · #3 Petco

Latest Refresh

Aug 13, 2026

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

Industry Overview

Specialty Retailers: Other recommendations can vary by engine and by prompt context. This leaderboard tracks which brands appear most consistently across 7 major AI engines and highlights where category visibility is concentrated.

Specialty Retailers: Other leaderboard tracks how brands appear across 7 major AI engines. Rankings update as new completed runs become available, giving teams a baseline for measuring category visibility before engine-specific gaps emerge.

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

This Claude rankings page is scoped to Specialty Retailers: Other: it shows how entities appear inside one answer engine using mention rate, recommendation strength, and latest snapshot signals. For model-level Claude rank tracking across industries, use the Claude benchmark hub. Use the private AI rank tracker when you need recurring monitoring for your own prompts, competitors, saved answer history, actions, validation, and report readiness.

Why This Matters

AI answer engines increasingly shape how people shortlist Specialty Retailers: Other 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. It is most useful when read alongside mention rate, score gaps, and engine-level outliers rather than as a single static ranking.

Current Ranking Takeaways

Petco is currently #1 in the Specialty Retailers: Other Claude public rankings benchmark, with a 89 AI Index and 100% mention rate. Treat this as market context for private prompt and competitor selection.

Dick's Sporting Goods is the nearest visible challenger on Claude, trailing Petco by 16 points. That gap helps separate engine-specific visibility from broader cross-engine strength.

The Claude benchmark refreshed on Aug 13, 2026, so it should be read as a public engine snapshot rather than a private recurring tracker run.

Entities

AI Engines

Aug 13, 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

Specialty Retailers: Other 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 Specialty Retailers: Other MiniMax rankings for Specialty Retailers: Other GLM rankings for Specialty Retailers: Other Qwen rankings for Specialty Retailers: Other Grok rankings for Specialty Retailers: Other ChatGPT rankings for Specialty Retailers: Other

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Leaderboard Podium

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Overall Ranking

REI

65.3

Staples

64.0

Petco

59.8

Claude

Latest collection-scoped AI rankings for Claude.

8 / 8 entities Aug 13, 2026

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Rank	Entity	AI Index	Mention Rate	Rank Score	Rec. Strength	1st Mention	Mentions
👑 #1	Petco	89.0	100.0%	90.0%	100.0%	20.0%	5/5
🥈 #2	Dick's Sporting Goods	73.0	100.0%	96.7%	20.0%	0.0%	5/5
🥉 #3	REI	64.0	100.0%	0.0%	80.0%	80.0%	5/5
#4	Guitar Center	62.0	80.0%	83.3%	25.0%	0.0%	4/5
#5	Bass Pro Shops	28.0	0.0%	93.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0/5
#6	PetSmart	26.0	0.0%	86.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0/5
#7	Staples	24.0	60.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3/5
#8	Academy Sports + Outdoors	16.0	0.0%	53.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0/5

Next Step

Turn this public industry benchmark into a private AI visibility tracker.

Public rankings are useful for market discovery and benchmark context. Private tracking is where teams monitor owned prompts, direct competitors, citations, answer history, action plans, validation evidence, report readiness, and pricing fit.

Open a private trackerContinue to onboarding with this industry and Claude context preserved.See all Claude rank tracking benchmarksOpen the model-level Claude benchmark hub across industries and categories.Compare tracker plansReview monitoring capacity, prompt limits, projects, and plan fit before moving beyond the public benchmark.Run a free visibility checkCheck one brand as a diagnostic before setting up recurring AI visibility monitoring.Specialty Retailers: Other ranking trendSee how this industry has shifted across recent public leaderboard runs.

FAQ

How is the Specialty Retailers: Other leaderboard calculated?

Overall ranking combines the latest AI visibility signals across tracked engines for Specialty Retailers: Other, including rank position, recommendation strength, and mention-rate patterns.

Why can the current leader lead overall but differ by engine?

Each AI engine can prefer different brands, evidence, freshness, and recommendation patterns, so engine-specific rankings can diverge from the combined leaderboard.

How often is this Specialty Retailers: Other leaderboard updated?

This leaderboard updates whenever new completed runs are available for Specialty Retailers: Other, with the latest refresh date shown on the page.