Does AI recommend Best Egg?
bestegg.com in personal loans: how often Gemini, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT name it next to SoFi, its top competitor, which sites the answers cite, and whether AI crawlers can read the site.
9%
of AI answers name Best Egg
SoFi: 39%. Rank 10 of 65 brands tracked.
Best Egg vs SoFi, engine by engine
Named most by Gemini (13%), least by Google AI Overviews (6%). The grey tick is the typical (median) brand of the category.
Questions where SoFi is named and Best Egg is not
- “Which lender is best for consolidating $20,000 of credit card debt?”
- “Best lenders for a $25,000 kitchen remodel loan”
69 more questions like these in this check. The snapshot finds them all for Best Egg against up to 5 competitors, on 50 buyer questions asked 3 times in each engine, with the sites to get listed on and 5 fixes.
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Is Best Egg named, and where?
- Yes. Best Egg is named in 9% of the answers across Gemini, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT.
- It ranks 10 of 65 brands we track in personal loans.
- In list answers it shows up at position 3.2 on average in Gemini (1 = first).
The category baseline
From the AI Citation Index (65 brands tracked in personal loans, Week 41).
1%
The typical brand
39%
The category leader
9%
Best Egg, above typical
The sites the answers cite
The sites cited most in AI answers about personal loans, all engines. Being listed, reviewed or discussed on these is the shortest path into the answers.
- experian.com5.5% of citations
- bankrate.com5.2% of citations
- upstart.com4.9% of citations
- sofi.com4.2% of citations
- nerdwallet.com4.1% of citations
- credible.com3.9% of citations
- lendingtree.com3.9% of citations
- moneylion.com3.5% of citations
Can AI crawlers read bestegg.com?
Yes: nothing we checked stops the AI engines from reading the site. Checked Nov 3, 2026.
| Crawler | What it feeds | robots.txt |
|---|---|---|
| OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT search, the pages it cites | Allowed |
| GPTBot | OpenAI model training only | Allowed |
| Googlebot | Google Search and Google AI Overviews | Allowed |
| Google-Extended | Gemini answers and training | Allowed |
| ClaudeBot | Claude | Allowed |
| Firewall | Bot protection | Lets them in |
| Text without JavaScript | 2113 words in the raw homepage HTML | Readable |
Nothing to fix here. The crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Google AI Overviews and Gemini can read the site, and the homepage text shows without JavaScript. The next step is being cited: see the sites above.
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