AI Brand Chart: Wi-Fi routers, latest edition 2026-w42
5 AI models, 47 buying scenarios, edition 2026-w42, data as of October 16, 2026.
Brand names only: the models saw each option as a brand name, with no product facts, and answered from their own knowledge.
Fast panel: the fast or small current models of each vendor, not the full flagship panel.
beta: intervals not small-sample calibrated
Tiers, not strict ranks
How to read this
A position is only the order of the estimates, and arrows show how that order moved since the last edition: brands in one tier cannot be told apart from its leader at 95% confidence, and each rank is an interval. Rails show the conditional pick share (among answers that picked a brand) in shortlists of 4 (chance is 25%).
Changed beyond noise: for this brand alone, the 95% interval of its share change excludes 0. Lineup or panel changes between editions can cause it too, and it is never a rank claim.
Display order since the last edition, not strict ranks. Moves without a badge are within the margin.
- 1NewASUSNew on the chart in this edition.63% (49%–75%)1 week
- 2NeweeroNew on the chart in this edition.54% (40%–67%)1 week
- 3NewUbiquitiNew on the chart in this edition.31% (19%–44%)1 week
- 4NewSynologyNew on the chart in this edition.30% (20%–41%)1 week
- 5NewTP-LinkNew on the chart in this edition.27% (17%–38%)1 week
- 6NewNETGEARNew on the chart in this edition.23% (13%–35%)1 week
- 7NewGoogleNew on the chart in this edition.20% (10%–33%)1 week
- 8NewLinksysNew on the chart in this edition.14% (7%–25%)1 week
- 9NewGL.iNetNew on the chart in this edition.13% (5%–24%)1 week
- 10NewARRISNew on the chart in this edition.0% (0%–10%)1 week
- 11NewMSINew on the chart in this edition.0% (0%–10%)1 week