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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Montana, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 51 of 233 · rank 20 among US state destinations

AI models put Montana, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 5.4% of answers, rank 51 overall. It does best when the question specifies season as summer: 23.3%, +17.9 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +2.7 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Montana, 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
Claude4.9%
ChatGPT4.6%
Gemini5.2%
Grok7.1%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 53.6%
Claude Sonnet 55.2%
Claude Haiku 4.56.0%
GPT-5.6 Terra6.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna2.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash5.2%
Grok 4.67.1%

Web search and effort

Montana, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Montana, 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 off6.8%4.1%
Normal vs lowest effort5.5%5.4%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Montana, USA made the top 10 at least once for 3 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 26.7% 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
SummerWinterFallSpring
Change+17.9−3.5−4.8−5.4

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road tripRequires a flightAt most two connections
Change+15.8−3.4−5.4

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool WeatherMild Weather
Change+2.3−5.4

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
UnderratedWhere should I go?The plain questionOverrated
Change+0.8+0.4−3.2−5.4

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekWeekendTwo weeks
Change+0.2−1.8−1.8

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
AdventureExoticCulturalRelaxation
Change−0.4−4.2−5.4−5.4

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloFamilyCouple
Change−1.7−2.6−4.6

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Glacier National Park74
Going-to-the-Sun Road14
Whitefish7
Big Sky6
Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park4
Flathead Lake2
Glacier National Park and Whitefish2
Glacier National Park region2
Beartooth Highway Loop1
Bozeman1
Glacier National Park & Going-to-the-Sun Road1
Glacier National Park & Polebridge1
Glacier National Park and the Flathead Valley1
Glacier National Park and the Montana Rockies1
Glacier National Park area1

Montana, 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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