AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year
Mongolia in AI travel recommendations
country · overall rank 138 of 233 · rank 94 among country destinations
AI models put Mongolia in their top 10 recommendations in 0.6% of answers, rank 138 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as exotic: 6.5%, +5.9 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.3 points against web search off.
The score is the share of answers that recommend Mongolia in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.
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By platform
| Platform | Score |
|---|---|
| Claude | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT | 0.6% |
| Gemini | 0.4% |
| Grok | 0.8% |
By model
| Model | Score |
|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5 | 0.0% |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | 0.4% |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0.8% |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | 0.0% |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | 1.2% |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 0.4% |
| Grok 4.6 | 0.8% |
Web search and effort
Mongolia · Edition 1, 2027 travel year
Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers
Mongolia 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 | 0.4% | 0.7% |
| Normal vs lowest effort | 0.5% | 0.6% |
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.
Travel style
| Exotic | |
|---|---|
| Change | +5.9 |
How it's asked
| Where should I go? | The plain question | |
|---|---|---|
| Change | +0.1 | −0.6 |
Climate
| Low Rain | |
|---|---|
| Change | −0.2 |
Season
| Summer | |
|---|---|
| Change | −0.6 |
Trip length
| Two weeks | |
|---|---|
| Change | −0.6 |
How the models wrote the name
| Name | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Mongolia | 12 |
| Gobi Desert | 1 |
| Ulaanbaatar | 1 |
| Western Mongolia | 1 |