The headline
- Across 16 categories, the four models agree on average 34% of the time.
- They disagree most on Trust badges — just 0% overlap.
- They agree most on Page builder — 100%.
Agreement by category
“Agreement” is the mean pairwise overlap of the four models' top picks (lower means they disagree more). Sorted most-contested first.
| Category | Agreement |
|---|---|
| Trust badges | 0% |
| Back in stock | 18% |
| Currency converter | 22% |
| Loyalty | 23% |
| Search & filters | 23% |
| SEO | 23% |
| Live chat & support | 25% |
| Wishlist | 27% |
| Subscriptions | 30% |
| Returns & exchanges | 33% |
| Upsell & bundles | 35% |
| Order tracking | 40% |
| Popups & email capture | 40% |
| Email marketing | 50% |
| Reviews | 58% |
| Page builder | 100% |
Most consistently recommended apps
Named across the most model·category combinations right now:
New to the consensus
Apps the models started recommending recently (held at least two days):
- Fera · reviews, trust_badges
- Hextom · currency_converter, trust_badges
- Appstle Subscriptions & Loyalty · subscriptions
- Appstle℠ Subscriptions App · subscriptions
- Avada Trust Badges, Sales Pop · trust_badges
- Buildify · page_builder
How this is measured
Every day we ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini to recommend the best Shopify apps across 16 categories, via the official APIs. Agreement is the mean pairwise overlap of their top picks. Full methodology. Look up where your app stands.
Cite this: NextSASI, “The State of AI Shopify App Recommendations”, 2026-06-25 — https://www.nextsasi.com/report