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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Missouri, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 101 of 233 · rank 32 among US state destinations

AI models put Missouri, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 1.3% of answers, rank 101 overall. It does best when the question specifies transport as road trip: 15.8%, +14.5 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.1 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Missouri, 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
Claude1.6%
ChatGPT1.2%
Gemini1.2%
Grok1.2%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 51.2%
Claude Sonnet 52.0%
Claude Haiku 4.51.6%
GPT-5.6 Terra1.2%
GPT-5.6 Luna1.2%
Gemini 3.8 Flash1.2%
Grok 4.61.2%

Web search and effort

Missouri, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Missouri, 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%1.3%
Normal vs lowest effort1.0%1.6%

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+14.5

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?Underrated
Change+0.2−1.3

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSpring
Change−1.1−1.3

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Weekend
Change−1.1

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Kansas City2
Branson1

Missouri, 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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