AI Brand Chart: Cat food, latest edition 2026-w42
5 AI models, 60 buying scenarios, edition 2026-w42, data as of October 17, 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.
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.
- 1NewRoyal CaninNew on the chart in this edition.50% (37%–63%)1 week
- 2NewPurinaNew on the chart in this edition.48% (37%–59%)1 week
- 3NewHill's Science DietNew on the chart in this edition.41% (29%–54%)1 week
- 4NewWellnessNew on the chart in this edition.35% (25%–46%)1 week
- 5NewTiki CatNew on the chart in this edition.31% (21%–43%)1 week
- 6NewBlue BuffaloNew on the chart in this edition.22% (15%–30%)1 week
- 7NewNuloNew on the chart in this edition.17% (11%–24%)1 week
- 8NewIamsNew on the chart in this edition.17% (10%–27%)1 week
- 9NewMeow MixNew on the chart in this edition.7% (2%–17%)1 week
- 10New9LivesNew on the chart in this edition.4% (0%–12%)1 week
- 11NewTaste of the WildNew on the chart in this edition.3% (0%–10%)1 week