The August 2026 Index Report
66 categories changed hands · Maxeon climbed 14 places in solar companies · 122 categories left the AI models split. Every line below is computed from the frozen August 2026 edition and its predecessor. Nothing here is written by hand, and nothing is for sale.
New #1s · 12
Biggest risers
Amazon Fire HD 10tablets#13 → #2▲ 11Biggest fallers
Notable entrants · new to the top 5
Where the AI models disagree
Running shoes divides the AI models: 7 different top answers across the 7 with answers, led by Adidas Adizero Evo SL (Perplexity).
Air purifiers divides the AI models: 6 different top answers across the 7 with answers, led by Rabbit Air A3 (Claude and Copilot).
Savings accounts divides the AI models: 6 different top answers across the 7 with answers, led by SoFi (Gemini and Copilot).
No agreement in tablets: Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 leads for ChatGPT and Gemini, Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra for Copilot, and 4 other picks split the rest.
No agreement in travel insurance: Travelex Insurance Services leads for Claude and Gemini, World Nomads for DeepSeek, and 4 other picks split the rest.
Webcams divides the AI models: 6 different top answers across the 7 with answers, led by Logitech Brio 500 (Gemini and Grok).
No agreement in 3PL companies: ShipBob leads for ChatGPT and Gemini, Amazon Logistics for Claude and Grok, and 3 other picks split the rest.
AI meeting assistants divides the AI models: 5 different top answers across the 8 with answers, led by Fireflies.ai (ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok).
Closest races
Regional divergence
43 of 46 categories crown a different #1 locally
41 of 46 categories crown a different #1 locally
43 of 46 categories crown a different #1 locally
18 of 46 categories crown a different #1 locally
Every claim above links to the frozen August 2026 record: the full ranking, the per-model splits, and every verbatim answer as captured. Rankings are computed from AI responses alone and are not for sale. Browse the August 2026 edition → Read the methodology →
Integrity: run-level root hashes for this edition
Global sweep b0bb234c9d1758a6c8081b0852db5397259c220cefc8a631bbcab670adc2c8f4
Regional sweep 7c246f1e6c44f05f86675bd4933b251956cafe64024927afc66b23e33d77696b
Each hash is a SHA-256 over every category’s frozen answer corpus. Verification spec ships in every record’s JSON download.