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Who does AI name for test prep and tutoring?

SAT, ACT, GRE and LSAT prep, plus private tutoring for students.

The ranking

Last measured: October 22, 2026. 32 answers measured, 0 failed. AI answers change over time: this is a snapshot of that day, not a permanent verdict.

BusinessTimes namedShareAvg. position
The Princeton Review1753%4.4
Kaplan1547%5.1
Wyzant1341%3.8
Khan Academy1031%5.4
Mathnasium928%4.6
Magoosh825%4.4
Varsity Tutors722%2.7
Sylvan Learning722%4.7
Huntington Learning Center516%4.2
7Sage413%2.5
GregMat413%2.8
PrepScholar413%4.5
College of DuPage413%4.8
Blueprint39%2.3
Tutor.com39%3.3

Showing the 15 most-named businesses, only those named at least 2 times. Ties go to the one the AI names earlier in its answers. Variants of the same name count as one business.

Left out: 4 names the AI mentioned that aren’t businesses competing in this industry (products, manufacturers, banks, universities, media or directories), such as College Board (public body or association), Bluebook (product), ETS (public body or association) and LSAC (public body or association).

The questions we ask

The same 8 buyer questions every month, none of them naming a business:

  • What are the best SAT prep courses in the US?
  • My daughter needs a math tutor for high school. Which tutoring service would you recommend?
  • Which LSAT prep program gets the best score improvements?
  • Can you recommend an online tutoring company for middle school students?
  • How much does private SAT tutoring cost per hour?
  • Which test prep company is best for the GRE if I'm working full time?
  • Who are the most trusted tutoring centers in Orange County, California?
  • Where should I go for ACT prep in the Chicago suburbs?
  • How we measure this

    Engines asked: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude. Each one answers as it would for someone in the US.

    We send every question to every engine, then a separate model lists, in order of appearance, the specific businesses each answer named. Generic terms are dropped (search engines, government agencies, cities, review sites): only real businesses count.

    Variants of the same name are merged: capitalization, accents, legal suffixes (LLC, P.C.), the website (“name.com”) and generic industry words around the name. Each answer counts once per business, even if it names it several times. Names that don't compete in this industry are left out even when the AI mentions them: products and manufacturers, banks and lenders, universities, media and directories (the place where you look for a provider isn't the provider).

    A call that fails (the engine doesn’t respond, or the answer can’t be read) never counts as “this business was not named”. It is left out entirely, so the number of measured answers is always less than or equal to the number of questions sent.

    Each business’s share is out of the answers we actually measured, never out of every question sent: if some calls fail, nobody’s percentage drops because of it.

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    Other industries

    ChatGPT is a trademark of OpenAI, Gemini of Google, Perplexity of Perplexity AI and Claude of Anthropic. They are named here only to identify the product being discussed. MencionIA is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of these companies. The businesses in this ranking appear because an AI assistant named them in an answer, not because they have any relationship with MencionIA. This is data from an automated measurement, not a recommendation from us.

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