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AI Brand Chart: Kitchen knives, latest edition 2026-w42

5 AI models, 60 buying scenarios, edition 2026-w42, data as of October 17, 2026.

Brand names only: the models saw each option as a brand name, with no product facts, and answered from their own knowledge.

Fast panel: the fast or small current models of each vendor, not the full flagship panel.

Tiers, not strict ranks

How to read this

A position is only the order of the estimates, and arrows show how that order moved since the last edition: brands in one tier cannot be told apart from its leader at 95% confidence, and each rank is an interval. Rails show the conditional pick share (among answers that picked a brand) in shortlists of 4 (chance is 25%).

Changed beyond noise: for this brand alone, the 95% interval of its share change excludes 0. Lineup or panel changes between editions can cause it too, and it is never a rank claim.

Display order since the last edition, not strict ranks. Moves without a badge are within the margin.

  1. 1NewWusthofTier 1, rank 1 to 4New on the chart in this edition.55% (44%–67%)1 week
  2. 2NewVictorinoxTier 1, rank 1 to 6New on the chart in this edition.41% (31%–51%)1 week
  3. 3NewShunTier 1, rank 1 to 7New on the chart in this edition.36% (26%–47%)1 week
  4. 4NewMAC KnifeTier 1, rank 1 to 7New on the chart in this edition.34% (24%–44%)1 week
  5. 5NewZwillingTier 2, rank 2 to 8New on the chart in this edition.32% (22%–41%)1 week
  6. 6NewGlobalTier 2, rank 2 to 10New on the chart in this edition.25% (15%–35%)1 week
  7. 7NewMercer CulinaryTier 2, rank 3 to 10New on the chart in this edition.19% (11%–28%)1 week
  8. 8NewDalstrongTier 2, rank 5 to 11New on the chart in this edition.12% (6%–20%)1 week
  9. 9NewMisenTier 3, rank 6 to 11New on the chart in this edition.11% (5%–19%)1 week
  10. 10NewMade InTier 3, rank 6 to 11New on the chart in this edition.9% (4%–17%)1 week
  11. 11NewCutcoTier 3, rank 8 to 11New on the chart in this edition.3% (0%–11%)1 week