Tether
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stablecoin platforms | Treasury and cash | 0% | 125 of 141 | 53% | 15 | criticized challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Tether across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Tether (USDT): ~$184B market cap (59% share). The undisputed leader in volume and liquidity.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Stablecoin platforms · comparative prompt · first choice
“For maximum liquidity and global payments: USDT is the dominant force” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Stablecoin platforms · comparative prompt · first choice
“Best liquidity/trading use: USDT” GPT-5.4 mini · Stablecoin platforms · comparative prompt · first choice
“If you are actively trading tokens, USDT remains the standard due to its liquidity.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Stablecoin platforms · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Some stablecoin platforms to be cautious about include: * Tether (USDT), which is known for freezing or seizing funds without warning.” Llama 4 Maverick · Stablecoin platforms · negative prompt · hard negative
“Poor transparency; not ideal for compliance-focused B2B.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Stablecoin platforms · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“S&P flagged that only about two-thirds of Tether's reserves are U.S. Treasuries, with growing holdings in volatile assets, and lack of audits and operational transparency raised red flags.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Stablecoin platforms · negative prompt · soft negative
“It remains the market leader with the highest liquidity, but its parent company has faced regulatory fines regarding the sufficiency of its reserves.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Stablecoin platforms · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Tether, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Tether was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 27 of the 30 answers that named Tether and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for Tether, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Tether stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- not counted (“tether”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 7,645 a month
- Its own site
- No site of its own on file, so no site figures
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 30 answers
- Its own site cited
- No site on file to match
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as Tether
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Tether by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Tether is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Tether, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.