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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Idaho, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 122 of 233 · rank 36 among US state destinations

AI models put Idaho, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 0.9% of answers, rank 122 overall. It does best when the question specifies transport as road trip: 4.4%, +3.5 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.8 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Idaho, USA in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

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By platform

PlatformScore
Claude1.1%
ChatGPT2.0%
Gemini0.0%
Grok0.4%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.4%
Claude Sonnet 50.8%
Claude Haiku 4.52.0%
GPT-5.6 Terra1.6%
GPT-5.6 Luna2.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.0%
Grok 4.60.4%

Web search and effort

Idaho, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Idaho, USA with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.

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SettingSearch on / normal effortSearch off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off1.3%0.5%
Normal vs lowest effort0.5%1.3%

The repeated baseline question never put this destination in its top 10, so it has no repeat figure.

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.

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road trip
Change+3.5

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilySolo
Change+2.4−0.6

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
AdventureRelaxation
Change+0.2−0.3

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain question
Change+0.1−0.9

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Low RainCool Weather
Change−0.3−0.4

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekTwo weeksWeekend
Change−0.4−0.5−0.9

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallSummerSpringWinter
Change−0.5−0.6−0.9−0.9

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Middle Fork of the Salmon River2
Boise–Sun Valley–Sawtooth Mountains1
Sun Valley1

Idaho, USA

Most questions went to each model at each setting only once, and a model read the answers, so a reading can be wrong. The methodology has the details.

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