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Coffee Chains AI Rankings

Coffee Chains

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Current Champion

Starbucks

AI Index 90.3

Podium Snapshot

#1 Starbucks · #2 Luckin Coffee · #3 Blue Bottle Coffee

Latest Refresh

Jun 2, 2026

7 tracked engines and 30 entities in the latest public snapshot.

Industry Overview

Coffee Chains leaderboard shows which entities AI engines recommend most consistently right now. Current leaders include Starbucks, Luckin Coffee, and Blue Bottle Coffee across 7 tracked engines, with score and mention-rate signals combined into the overall AI Index. Starbucks is 35.9 points ahead of Luckin Coffee, so the gap helps show whether this industry has a clear AI visibility leader or a tighter competitive cluster.

Use the engine tabs below to compare how ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek rank entities differently. Overall ranking summarizes the latest visibility signals across all tracked engines, while engine-specific tabs reveal whether a brand is broadly recommended or over-dependent on one answer system.

Why This Matters

Use the overall ranking to see who leads this industry at a glance, then drill into individual AI engines to understand where visibility is strong, weak, or inconsistent. The useful signal is not only the rank: mention rate, score gaps, latest refresh date, and engine outliers show whether the leader is durable or only winning in a narrow set of prompts.

Current Ranking Takeaways

Starbucks is the current #1 entity in Coffee Chains with a 90.3 AI Index and 90.5% mention rate. This makes it the clearest public benchmark for how AI systems currently answer industry comparison prompts.

Luckin Coffee is the nearest visible challenger at #2, trailing Starbucks by 36 points. That gap is the first signal to inspect when deciding whether this leaderboard is leader-dominated or actively contested.

Blue Bottle Coffee rounds out the podium at #3. Comparing the top three against engine-level tabs helps separate broad recommendation consistency from single-engine strength.

The latest public snapshot refreshed on 2026-06-02, covering 7 tracked engines and 30 entities. Freshness matters because AI recommendations can shift as models, retrieval sources, and category evidence change.

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Overall Ranking

Starbucks

90.3

Luckin Coffee

54.4

Blue Bottle Coffee

48.5

Overall

Combined AI visibility across all tracked engines. Default view shows the top 10 entities.

10 / 23 entities Jun 2, 2026

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Rank	Entity	AI Index	Mention Rate
👑 #1	Starbucks	90.3	90.5%
🥈 #2	Luckin Coffee	54.4	47.6%
🥉 #3	Blue Bottle Coffee	48.5	57.1%
#4	Tim Hortons	40.6	45.2%
#5	Costa Coffee	38.2	38.1%
#6	Dunkin'	35.3	28.6%
#7	Peet's Coffee	33.7	47.6%
#8	Dutch Bros Coffee	30.9	32.1%
#9	Caffè Nero	28.1	14.3%
#10	Cotti Coffee	26.0	0.0%

FAQ

How is the Coffee Chains leaderboard calculated?

Overall ranking combines the latest AI visibility signals across tracked engines for Coffee Chains, including rank position, recommendation strength, and mention-rate patterns.

Why can Starbucks lead overall but differ by engine?

Each AI engine can prefer different brands, evidence, freshness, and recommendation patterns, so engine-specific rankings can diverge from the combined leaderboard.

How often is this Coffee Chains leaderboard updated?

This leaderboard updates whenever new completed runs are available for Coffee Chains, with the latest refresh date shown on the page.