Ecommerce platforms
Which storefront platform does AI recommend to a merchant?
Shopify was named in 90% of answers across one AI engine.
- Engines
- DeepSeek (deepseek-chat)
- Prompts asked
- 10
- Answers counted
- 10
- Measured
- 2026-09-13
Who got named
Across 8 brands we tracked. “Named in” is the raw count — with 10 answers, each one is 10% of the sample.
| Best position | Brand | Named in | Rate | Avg position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shopify | 9/10 | 90% | 1.3 |
| 3 | WooCommerce | 9/10 | 90% | 3.0 |
| 2 | BigCommerce | 8/10 | 80% | 2.0 |
| 3 | Squarespace | 6/10 | 60% | 3.0 |
| — | Wix | 4/10 | 40% | — |
| — | Magento | 3/10 | 30% | — |
| — | Salesforce Commerce Cloud | 1/10 | 10% | — |
Question by question
Which of the 8 tracked brands each prompt named — Shopify, the leader, is highlighted.
- What is the best ecommerce platform for a small business?Shopify · WooCommerce · BigCommerce · Squarespace · Wix
- Shopify vs WooCommerce — which is better?Shopify · WooCommerce
- Best platform to start an online storeShopify · WooCommerce · BigCommerce · Squarespace
- Which ecommerce platform is best for dropshipping?Shopify · WooCommerce · BigCommerce · Squarespace · Wix
- Best ecommerce platform for a brand with a physical storeShopify · WooCommerce · BigCommerce · Squarespace · Wix
- How do I choose an ecommerce platform?Shopify · WooCommerce · BigCommerce · Squarespace · Wix · Magento
- BigCommerce vs Shopify — which is better?Shopify · BigCommerce · Magento
- Best ecommerce platform for a subscription businessShopify · WooCommerce · BigCommerce · Squarespace
- Cheapest platform to sell a few products onlineWooCommerce
- What is the best ecommerce platform for international sales?Shopify · WooCommerce · BigCommerce · Magento · Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Asked the same questions, the top two were separated on 2: only Shopify in 1, only WooCommerce in 1.
Never named
Tracked, asked about, and not mentioned once (1 of 8).
How this was measured
- Each prompt was asked verbatim — no instruction to produce a list, no mention of AnswerWatch. Biasing the answers would make the numbers meaningless.
- A brand counts as named when its name (or an alias we recorded) appears in the answer text, matched on word boundaries so “Core” does not match inside “Score”.
- Position is the 1-based place in the answer’s main ranked list — the longest list it wrote. Answers often add smaller side-lists (“best for small teams”, “also consider”); counting those would let a brand look like #1 for winning a two-item list. A brand named only in prose, or only in a side-list, has no position and shows “—”.
- The brand list is curated, not the whole market. These are brands we chose to track, so a brand missing from this page is not evidence that AI ignores it. Answers sometimes name companies we did not track; those are not counted.
- Failed API calls are excluded from rates rather than counted as “not named”, and are reported above.
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