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BRAND DATA · AI WRITING · CHATGPT, SEPTEMBER 2026
How ChatGPT Recommends Sudowrite
To see how ChatGPT recommends Sudowrite, we asked it 100 buyer questions about AI writing tools, with web search on, and had two independent AI readers code every answer. In AI writing tools, Sudowrite appears in 11 of 100 answers, is recommended in 11 and is ChatGPT's own pick in 7, a pick rate of 64% that is below the 10-brand median of 77.5%. This page shows who ChatGPT says Sudowrite is for, how it does in head-to-head questions, what ChatGPT suggests instead of it, which sources sit behind its picks and which brands ChatGPT names alongside it.
BY BIKE HAWLEY, FOUNDER · PUBLISHED · UPDATED
01The Numbers
How often does ChatGPT recommend Sudowrite?
Across 100 AI writing tool questions, Sudowrite appeared in 11 answers (tied for rank 9 among all brands named), was recommended in 11 (tied for rank 9) and was ChatGPT's own pick in 7 (tied for rank 9). That is a pick rate of 64% of its appearances, below the 10-brand median of 77.5% for brands named 10 or more times in this teardown.
When ChatGPT picked Sudowrite, it named it first among the brands it picked in 6 of those 7 answers. On the 20 direct advice questions ("which should I use"), ChatGPT picked it in 3 and recommended it in 4.
| Question type | Questions | Sudowrite appeared | Sudowrite recommended | Sudowrite picked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category ("best X software") | 30 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| Head-to-head ("X vs Y") | 30 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Alternatives ("X alternatives") | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Advice ("which X should I use") | 20 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| All questions | 100 | 11 | 11 | 7 |
02Positioning
Who ChatGPT says Sudowrite is for
These are the labels ChatGPT attached to Sudowrite in its AI writing tool answers, taken from "best for" table columns and scenario lists and quoted as written. We found 2 such labels for Sudowrite in this category; the most frequent are below.
- "Fiction / novels"
- "If you're a novelist"
If this is not how you describe your product, that gap is the first thing to fix: AI answers repeat the positioning they find most often across the sources they read.
03Head to Head
Sudowrite vs competitors: who ChatGPT picks
In 2 head-to-head AI writing tool questions that named Sudowrite against at least one competitor, ChatGPT picked both Sudowrite and at least one named rival in 2, only Sudowrite in 0, and only a rival in 0. In every one of them ChatGPT made both Sudowrite and a rival its picks instead of declaring a single winner.
| Question | Rival named | Sudowrite | Rival picked |
|---|---|---|---|
| sudowrite vs novelai | NovelAI | Picked | NovelAI |
| sudowrite vs novelcrafter vs novelai | NovelAI, Novelcrafter | Picked | NovelAI, Novelcrafter |
04Alternatives
Sudowrite alternatives: what ChatGPT suggests
05Sources
Sources ChatGPT cites when it picks Sudowrite
The 7 AI writing tool answers in which ChatGPT picked Sudowrite carried 19 source citations in total. The most-cited domains in those answers:
- sudowrite.com (vendor site): 6
- novelcrafter.com (vendor site): 5
- novelai.net (vendor site): 2
- chatgpt.com (vendor site): 1
- techpresso.co (other third party): 1
- rework.com (other third party): 1
Across all 11 answers that recommended Sudowrite, picked or not, there were 32 citations.
Sudowrite's own site (sudowrite.com) was cited 8 times across all 100 answers in the category, in 8 different answers.
Google check: for 4 of the 7 questions where ChatGPT picked Sudowrite, sudowrite.com also ranked in Google's top ten organic results for the same question. So its Google rankings and its ChatGPT picks mostly overlap.
06Competitive Set
Who ChatGPT names alongside Sudowrite
These are the brands ChatGPT named alongside Sudowrite most often in AI writing tool answers, and in how many of those answers ChatGPT picked them. This is the competitive set ChatGPT has built for it, which is not always the one a vendor would choose.
07What It Means
What ChatGPT's answers mean for Sudowrite
Sudowrite is on ChatGPT's AI writing tool shortlist but is not one of its top three picks: it was recommended in 11 answers and picked in 7, against 50 picks for ChatGPT, the most-picked brand. Its weakest showing is on questions asking for alternatives to other brands, where ChatGPT picked it in 0 of 19.
sudowrite.com was the most-cited source in the answers that picked Sudowrite, so its own pages are doing real work in shaping how it is described.
08Method
Where the ChatGPT data on Sudowrite comes from
The ChatGPT data on Sudowrite comes from Teardown 21: AI writing tools. Each teardown runs 100 buyer questions (category, head-to-head, alternatives and advice phrasing) through ChatGPT with web search on, logged out, United States, English, one run per question.
Every answer was coded under codebook v2.0 by two independent AI readers working blind from the published reader protocol. Each reader coded every brand mention as picked, recommended, listed, passing or anchor; where the two disagreed, a third AI reader settled the code. Across all answers coded under v2.0, the two readers agreed on 97.8% of brand codes.
"Picked" means the answer made the brand its own verdict: "my pick", "choose X if", a shortlist it tells the buyer to act on, the #1 of its ranking, or the direct answer to a "which should I use" question. "Recommended" means the answer assigned the brand to a stated case or fit ("best for small teams") or picked it, so every picked brand also counts as recommended. "Appeared" counts answers where the brand was recommended or listed. Every count is a count of answers. Use-case labels are quoted from the answers as written. Google checks use the top ten organic results for the same question collected the same day. Corrected October 23, 2026: Google answered some automated searches in late September with swapped results pages full of the wrong sites, so where the page collected on September 26 was swapped, the check now uses Google's page for the same question on October 23, 2026.
Limits: one run per question, one country, one point in time. AI answers vary between runs, so treat these as frequencies for this sample, not fixed positions. High Salience has no commercial relationship with any brand on this page. If you work for this brand and see an error, write to hello@highsalience.com and we will check it against the dataset.
Full per-answer datasets (CSV) are on each teardown page.
09FAQs
Sudowrite in ChatGPT: FAQs
These FAQs are the quick version of how Sudowrite fares in ChatGPT, using the same data as the sections above.
Does ChatGPT recommend Sudowrite?
In our AI writing tools teardown (web search on, United States, September 26, 2026), ChatGPT named Sudowrite in 11 of 100 buyer questions, recommended it in 11 and made it its own pick in 7.
What does ChatGPT say Sudowrite is best for?
The label ChatGPT used most often for Sudowrite was "Fiction / novels". Other labels included "If you're a novelist".
Which brands does ChatGPT compare Sudowrite with?
In AI writing tool answers, the brands ChatGPT named most often alongside Sudowrite were ChatGPT, Claude, Jasper, and Novelcrafter.
10Next Step
See how ChatGPT describes your brand, as shown for Sudowrite
To see how ChatGPT describes your brand, as shown for Sudowrite on this page, start with the Category Salience Brief. It runs your category's buyer questions across Google and the AI surfaces, shows how each answer positions you against competitors, and ranks what to fix first.