AI-recommended cat food & care brands: rankings in 30 countries
Worldwide, AI assistants most often recommend Royal Canin, Whiskas and Temptations for cat. Royal Canin is named by 5 of 5 assistants.
What the data says
Royal Canin (Mars) is the cat food & care brand AI assistants recommend most worldwide, taking 13.6% of all recommendation points across 5 assistants. Whiskas follows with 10.5% and Temptations is third with 5.9%.
Royal Canin's lead over Whiskas is 3.1 points, a clear advantage in how AI shortlists the category.
Every assistant tested (ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini and Grok) puts Royal Canin first.
The top five brands hold 37% of recommendations out of 238 brands named in total, leaving room for challengers to break into AI shortlists.
| # | Brand | Owner | AI share | ChatGPT | Claude | DeepSeek | Gemini | Grok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Canin | Mars | 13.6% | 1152 | 813 | 1274 | 834 | 2075 |
| 2 | Whiskas | Mars | 10.5% | 769 | 590 | 1244 | 800 | 1349 |
| 3 | Temptations | Mars | 5.9% | 686 | 513 | 378 | 555 | 551 |
| 4 | Purina One | Nestlé | 3.7% | 752 | 387 | 300 | 251 | – |
| 5 | Purina | Nestlé | 3.7% | – | 350 | 394 | 8 | 910 |
| 6 | Hill’s | Colgate-Palmolive | 3.3% | 343 | 238 | 574 | 36 | 294 |
| 7 | Dreamies | Mars | 3.2% | 280 | 280 | 468 | 353 | 52 |
| 8 | Virbac | Virbac | 2.6% | 497 | 142 | 125 | 175 | 260 |
| 9 | GimCat | Gimborn | 2.5% | 147 | 55 | 515 | 413 | – |
| 10 | Me-O | Perfect Companion Group | 2.5% | 381 | – | 285 | 117 | 345 |
| 11 | Nutramax | Nutramax Laboratories | 2.5% | 70 | 114 | 165 | 44 | 719 |
| 12 | Greenies | Mars | 2.4% | 320 | 475 | – | 52 | 244 |
| 13 | Beaphar | Beaphar | 2.3% | 356 | 136 | 237 | 243 | 64 |
| 14 | Friskies | Nestlé | 2.2% | 136 | 501 | 180 | 178 | 12 |
| 15 | Felix | Nestlé | 1.9% | 235 | 207 | – | 274 | 124 |
| 16 | CIAO Churu | Inaba Pet Food | 1.7% | 200 | – | – | 348 | 224 |
| 17 | Frontline | Boehringer Ingelheim | 1.3% | – | 80 | 200 | 328 | – |
| 18 | Hill's | Colgate-Palmolive | 1.1% | – | 80 | – | – | 440 |
| 19 | Vitakraft | Vitakraft | 1.1% | 152 | 152 | 48 | 160 | – |
| 20 | Revolution | Zoetis | 1.1% | – | 250 | – | 252 | – |
Questions about AI cat food & care recommendations
- Which cat food & care brand does ChatGPT recommend most?
- ChatGPT recommends Royal Canin most often for cat food & care. Across all assistants, Royal Canin leads with 13.6% of recommendations.
- Which cat food & care brand is improving fastest?
- Dreamies has the strongest momentum among challengers: AI names it first in 29 of 52 answers where it appears, while holding 3.2% share. This is the first Q4 2026 reading; change over time will be shown from the next update.
- How is the ranking calculated?
- We ask each AI assistant the questions shoppers ask in each category and market, record the top five brands it names, and give 35, 25, 20, 12 and 8 points for positions one to five. Share is a brand's points divided by all points awarded.
Cat: AI rankings by country
Covers: Cat Food, Cat Health, Cat Treats.
Method: each AI assistant is asked the shopper questions for every segment in the category and market; the top five brands named score 35, 25, 20, 12 and 8 points. Share is a brand's points divided by all points awarded. Rankings reflect AI answers, not sales.
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