What Protein Powder Do AI Models Recommend (2026)?
Tracked across 1 benchmark run from May 26, 2026 to May 26, 2026
The exact question we asked AI models
“Best protein powder for 28yo, works out 4-5x/week, lean muscle and recovery”
Brand Recommendations
Aggregated across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity over 1 benchmark run.
| # | Brand | Mentions | Top-3 | First Picks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Optimum Nutrition | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2 | Transparent Labs | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | Dymatize | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | Momentous | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Nutricost | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Promix | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | Vega | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Ghost | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Kaged | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Model-by-Model Breakdown
Top brands each AI model recommends for this prompt.
chatgpt
- 1.Transparent Labs
- 2.Dymatize
- 3.Optimum Nutrition
claude
- 1.Momentous
- 2.Transparent Labs
- 3.Optimum Nutrition
- 4.Nutricost
gemini
- 1.Optimum Nutrition
- 2.Dymatize
- 3.Transparent Labs
- 4.Ghost
- 5.Vega
perplexity
- 1.Optimum Nutrition
- 2.Kaged
- Promix
Key Insights
Key Takeaway
This is the first run in this category that can be compared with the one before it on all four engines. Optimum Nutrition went from nine mentions to eleven and now leads three engines rather than two. Dymatize is the largest mover, from three mentions to seven, gaining on three separate engines. Claude replaced Transparent Labs with Optimum Nutrition at the top of its own list. The gap between the two runs is twenty days rather than the usual fourteen.
Top Brands Summary
Optimum Nutrition 11, Dymatize 7, Transparent Labs 6, Nutricost 3, Vega 2, Orgain 2, Thorne 2, Ritual 2, Momentous 2. Eighteen brands across 46 mentions and all twelve responses. Eleven of the twelve named a brand, and Perplexity answered the open prompt without naming one.
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