We ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Perplexity the questions real shoppers ask — and rank United States coffee brands by how often the AIs actually name them. Higher = more likely to win the sale.
Looking for the best coffee brands in the US? This leaderboard isn't our opinion — it tracks which coffee brands ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity actually recommend when shoppers ask where to buy a good bag of beans. We scan 22 United States coffee brands against the questions real buyers type and score each on how often the AIs name it. Right now Stumptown Coffee Roasters leads with an AI Visibility Score of 21/100, ahead of Onyx Coffee Lab (17).
| # | Brand | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stumptown Coffee Roasters | 21 | ▼ 18 |
| 2 | Onyx Coffee Lab | 17 | ▼ 18 |
| 3 | Heart Coffee Roasters | 13 | ▲ 5 |
| 4 | Intelligentsia Coffee | 11 | ▼ 21 |
| 5 | Sey Coffee | 11 | ▲ 5 |
| 6 | Blue Bottle Coffee | 10 | ▼ 32 |
| 7 | Counter Culture Coffee | 10 | ▼ 35 |
| 8 | George Howell Coffee | 8 | ▲ 8 |
| 9 | Equator Coffees | 6 | ▲ 6 |
| 10 | Verve Coffee Roasters | 6 | ▼ 23 |
| 11 | Bird Rock Coffee Roasters | 0 | ▼ 8 |
| 12 | Black & White Coffee Roasters | 0 | — |
| 13 | Chamberlain Coffee | 0 | — |
| 14 | Coava Coffee Roasters | 0 | — |
| 15 | Death Wish Coffee | 0 | — |
| 16 | Klatch Coffee | 0 | — |
| 17 | La Colombe Coffee Roasters | 0 | ▼ 10 |
| 18 | Passenger Coffee | 0 | — |
| 19 | Red Bay Coffee | 0 | — |
| 20 | Ritual Coffee Roasters | 0 | ▼ 8 |
| 21 | Ruby Coffee Roasters | 0 | — |
| 22 | Tandem Coffee Roasters | 0 | ▼ 8 |
Set a monthly service budget and we'll do the optimization work — AI-legible copy, comparison & FAQ pages, structured data, and monitoring — then report your score every month. You buy the work and the tracked movement, not a guaranteed placement.
How scoring works: each brand is scanned across four AI engines with the buyer questions people actually type (e.g. “best coffee to buy in the US?”). The score reflects how often and how prominently the brand is recommended. Movement (▲▼) compares the latest scan to the previous one.
In our latest scan, Stumptown Coffee Roasters has the highest AI Visibility Score (21/100), meaning the AI assistants name it most often when shoppers ask for a coffee recommendation in the US. 0 of the 22 brands we track currently score 76 or above.
We ask four AI assistants — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity — the buyer questions people actually type, such as "best coffee in the US?". Each brand's 0–100 score reflects how often and how prominently it is named across those answers. It is an editorial measure of AI visibility, not a paid placement and not a rating of the coffee itself.
AI assistants tend to repeat a small set of well-documented names, so brands with thin websites, little third-party coverage or no structured product data often get left out — no matter how good their coffee is. 22 of the 22 brands here currently score under 32 ("Invisible"). It's usually fixable with clearer, more machine-readable content.
Scores refresh as we re-scan the AI engines; the most recent update shown here is 5 Aug 2026. The ▲▼ movement column compares each brand's latest scan with the one before it.
Every brand on this page is scanned across four AI assistants using the same buyer questions a real United States shopper would ask. We record whether each engine names the brand, how prominently, and which rivals it recommends instead, then combine that into a single 0–100 AI Visibility Score. We don't take payment to move a brand up the ranking — the only way to climb is to become genuinely easier for the AIs to understand and cite. Brands can claim their listing to see exactly which questions and engines they're missing.