country · overall rank 9 of 233 · rank 8 among country destinations
AI models put Costa Rica in their top 10 recommendations in 22.9% of answers, rank 9 overall. It does best when the question specifies season as winter: 51.7%, +28.8 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +1.1 points against web search off.
The score is the share of answers that recommend Costa Rica in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.
Costa Rica with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.
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Setting
Search on / normal effort
Search off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off
23.4%
22.3%
Normal vs lowest effort
22.9%
22.9%
The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Costa Rica made the top 10 at least once for 11 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 34.5% of the repeats on average.
By kind of question
How much higher or lower the score is on questions that ask for each option, in percentage points against the overall score. Outlined cells are below the overall score.
Season
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Winter
Spring
Fall
Summer
Change
+28.8
0.0
−13.8
−19.4
Travel style
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Adventure
Workcation
Relaxation
Exotic
Digital Nomad
Cultural
Change
+27.8
+14.6
+4.7
+3.2
−16.6
−19.9
Climate
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm Weather
Mild Weather
Low Rain
Cool Weather
Change
+21.3
+2.8
−7.2
−21.6
Travel party
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Family
Couple
Solo
Change
+10.2
+3.0
−0.1
Transport
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Nonstop, 6–8 hours
At most two connections
Requires a flight
Road trip
Change
+9.4
+4.6
−7.4
−10.0
Trip length
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeks
One week
Weekend
Change
+8.9
+7.9
−13.5
How it's asked
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?
The plain question
Change
+1.9
−12.0
How the models wrote the name
Name
Mentions
Costa Rica
343
San José
53
Guanacaste
46
Liberia
11
Nosara
7
Santa Teresa
6
Tamarindo
6
Guanacaste Province
5
La Fortuna
5
Manuel Antonio
5
San Jose
5
Arenal Volcano National Park
4
Guanacaste (Liberia)
4
Arenal Volcano Region
3
Central Valley
3
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