Which AI sends you to a real plumber?
We checked every business each engine named against Google Maps. Claude had the highest share of picks we could match to a listing. Gemini named the most businesses we couldn't find.
60 answers · 460 named picks · checked October 15, 2026
01Verified rate
- 1Claudeclaude-haiku-4-5100.0%
83 of 83 found
- 2Perplexitysonar94.7%
72 of 76 found · 4 not found
- 3Geminigemini-2.5-flash93.4%
184 of 197 found · 13 not found
- 4ChatGPTgpt-4o-mini92.3%
96 of 104 found · 8 not found
02The full scorecard
- Verified
- 100.0%
- Not found
- 0.0%
- Closed
- 0.0%
- Avg rating
- 4.82★
- Median reviews
- 1,097
- In Maps top 10
- 18%
- Top 10 covered
- 20%
- Answer length
- 196w
- Names / answer
- 5.5
- Verified
- 94.7%
- Not found
- 5.3%
- Closed
- 0.0%
- Avg rating
- 4.76★
- Median reviews
- 1,055
- In Maps top 10
- 12%
- Top 10 covered
- 14%
- Answer length
- 129w
- Names / answer
- 5.1
- Verified
- 93.4%
- Not found
- 6.6%
- Closed
- 0.0%
- Avg rating
- 4.82★
- Median reviews
- 736
- In Maps top 10
- 9%
- Top 10 covered
- 20%
- Answer length
- 389w
- Names / answer
- 13.1
- Verified
- 92.3%
- Not found
- 7.7%
- Closed
- 0.0%
- Avg rating
- 4.83★
- Median reviews
- 713
- In Maps top 10
- 15%
- Top 10 covered
- 20%
- Answer length
- 225w
- Names / answer
- 6.9
- Verified.
- Named picks that match a Google Maps listing in the same state.
- Not found.
- Named picks with no matching listing after two Maps searches.
- Closed.
- Matched listings Google marks as permanently or temporarily closed. None turned up in this edition.
- Avg rating.
- Mean Google rating of the matched businesses the engine named.
- Median reviews.
- Median Google review count of matched picks. Higher means it leans toward established businesses.
- In Maps top 10.
- Share of the engine's picks that rank in the Google Maps top 10 for "plumber" in that city.
- Top 10 covered.
- Average share of each city's Maps top 10 the engine named at least once.
- Answer length.
- Average words per answer.
- Names / answer.
- Average businesses named per answer.
03What stood out
Not found on Maps
25 of 460 picks (5.4%) had no matching Google Maps listing after two searches. Gemini accounted for 13.
AI and Maps disagree
Only 12% of AI picks rank in the Google Maps top 10 for "plumber". Across 5 cities, 16 of 50 Maps top-10 listings were named by any engine.
Long answers, more names
Gemini wrote the longest answers (about 389 words) and named 13.1 businesses per answer on average. More names came with more misses.
Names we couldn't find, by engine
Claude
Every pick matched a listing.
Perplexity
- Austin Water Dispatch (Austin)
- Blueline Service Co. (Nashville)
- Cooper Green Team (Denver)
- Trino’s Plumbing LLC (Austin)
Gemini
- Austin's Best Plumbing LLC (Austin)
- Austins Best Plumbing LLC (Austin)
- Baloos Plumbing (Nashville)
- Daniel's Plumbing and Air Conditioning (Austin)
- Do It Right Plumbing, Inc. (Phoenix)
- Happy Hiller (Nashville)
- Kodiak Pro Plumbing (Nashville)
- Reliant Plumbing of Lakeway (Austin)
- Tom Leach Plumbing (Austin)
- Trino's Plumbing LLC (Austin)
- Water Heater Man, Inc. (Denver)
ChatGPT
- A+ Plumbing (Austin)
- Columbus Plumbing & Drain (Columbus)
- Denver Pro Plumbing (Denver)
- Nashville's Plumbing Repair (Nashville)
- Plumbing Denver & Drain Clean Expert (Denver)
- Prime Peak Plumbing (Denver)
- Start 2 Finish Plumbing (Columbus)
- SummitFlow Plumbing (Nashville)
“Not found” means two Google Maps searches in that city returned no listing with a matching name. The business may be renamed, closed, unlisted, or made up. See the methodology.
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