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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Nicaragua in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 205 of 233 · rank 137 among country destinations

AI models put Nicaragua in their top 10 recommendations in 0.0% of answers, rank 205 overall. It does best when the question specifies season as winter: 0.2%, +0.2 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 Nicaragua 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
Claude0.1%
ChatGPT0.0%
Gemini0.0%
Grok0.0%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.0%
Claude Sonnet 50.4%
Claude Haiku 4.50.0%
GPT-5.6 Terra0.0%
GPT-5.6 Luna0.0%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.0%
Grok 4.60.0%

Web search and effort

Nicaragua · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Nicaragua 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 off0.1%0.0%
Normal vs lowest effort0.0%0.1%

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.

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Winter
Change+0.2

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne week
Change+0.10.0

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?
Change0.0

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Nonstop, 6–8 hours
Change0.0

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm Weather
Change0.0

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
AdventureDigital Nomad
Change0.00.0

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Family
Change0.0

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Granada1
Granada & San Juan del Sur1
Granada, San Juan del Sur, and Ometepe1
Managua1
Managua/San Juan del Sur area1
Nicaragua1
Nicaragua (Granada)1

Nicaragua

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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