Best review sites for manufacturers and suppliers in 2026
595 AI answers about manufacturers and suppliers cited 40 review sites. Grades.com collects reviews from 19 of them. Answers from the last 90 days (Aug 1 to Oct 30, 2026).
Which review sites matter most for manufacturers and suppliers?
By AI citation share, the top review sites for manufacturers and suppliers are BBB (37.0%), Yelp (33.8%) and Indeed (30.8%), out of 595 AI answers about manufacturers and suppliers. 15 sites are cited in at least 20 of those answers.
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Share of 595 AI answers about manufacturers and suppliers (the last 90 days) that cite each site, ranked. 12 of the 15 sites cited in 20 or more answers; the other 3 are in the table.
Which review sites does each AI assistant cite for manufacturers and suppliers?
ChatGPT cites Google Business Profile most (64% of its answers), Claude cites Yelp most (59% of its answers), Gemini cites BBB most (25% of its answers) and Perplexity cites Yelp most (54% of its answers). Each chart: the share of that assistant's answers about manufacturers and suppliers that cite the site.
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BBB is the review site AI assistants cite most for manufacturers and suppliers: 37.0% of 595 answers, ahead of Yelp (33.8%).
Google Business Profile is where most manufacturers and suppliers already are: 100% of the 142 we checked have a profile there, and AI cites it in 15.3% of answers.
Yelp is cited in 33.8% of answers, yet only 6% of the manufacturers and suppliers we checked have a profile there.
Yelp is cited in 33.8% of answers, but its rules do not allow asking customers for reviews: claim the profile and reply instead.
Facebook has the biggest audience of these sites: about 3.2B monthly visits (an estimate).
Where do manufacturers and suppliers get reviews?
Of the manufacturers and suppliers we checked, 100% have a Google Business Profile, 67% have a Facebook profile and 21% have a BBB profile (n = 142 businesses).
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Share of the manufacturers and suppliers we checked with a profile on each site, 0 to 100%. n = businesses checked.
The full ranking
See all 15 sites cited in 20 or more answers, in a table
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AI citation share: the share of the 595 AI answers about manufacturers and suppliers that cite the site. Sites cited in fewer than 20 of these answers are left out.Has a profile: manufacturers and suppliers we checked with a profile on the site. Collected = Grades.com pulls reviews from this site. Site reach: estimated monthly organic search visits to the site's domain (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating, October 2026).
Frequently asked questions
Which review site do AI assistants cite most for manufacturers and suppliers?
BBB is cited in 37.0% of 595 AI answers about manufacturers and suppliers, ahead of Yelp (33.8%) and Indeed (30.8%).
Do manufacturers and suppliers need Yelp?
Yelp ranks #2 of 15 for manufacturers and suppliers: AI assistants cite it in 33.8% of 595 answers about manufacturers and suppliers, against 43.4% of all answers. 6% of the manufacturers and suppliers we checked have a profile there (n = 142). Grades.com collects Yelp reviews.
Which review sites does Grades.com collect for manufacturers and suppliers?
Of the 40 review sites cited in AI answers about manufacturers and suppliers, Grades.com collects reviews from 19, among them BBB, Yelp, Google Business Profile, Yellow Pages, Glassdoor and Trustpilot.
Which review site is easiest for manufacturers and suppliers to get reviews on?
Of the review sites cited for manufacturers and suppliers, Google Business Profile is the one cited most (15.3% of AI answers) whose own rules let anyone leave a review, let the business send a direct review link, and allow asking customers for reviews. Yelp does not allow asking.
What is AI citation share?
The share of AI answers that cite a review site. Here it is counted over 595 answers about manufacturers and suppliers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity in the last 90 days: BBB is cited in 220 of them, a 37.0% share.
The three words this page uses: collected = Grades.com pulls reviews from the site (54 review sites in all); measured = every review site the AI answers cited, across all industries (109 sites); cited for manufacturers and suppliers = the measured sites that appeared in at least one of the 595 answers about manufacturers and suppliers (40 sites).
Data window: Aug 1 to Oct 30, 2026 (90 days), October 2026 edition, data as of October 30, 2026.
AI citation share: answers citing the site divided by the 595 AI answers about manufacturers and suppliers (businesses in the "Manufacturers & Suppliers" category of the Grades.com directory), from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. The chart and the table rank the sites cited in 20 or more of these answers. Search-result and help pages on a review site are not counted.
Has a profile: the share of the manufacturers and suppliers we checked with a profile on the site (n = businesses checked).
Picks: most cited by AI = highest citation share; easiest to get reviews = the site cited most whose own rules let anyone review, let the business send a direct review link and allow asking (from its guide; never Yelp, which does not allow asking); most replies from businesses = highest share of reviews with a business reply, among manufacturers and suppliers, shown with at least 100 reviews checked. A pick the data cannot support is left out.
Start with these three: the sites cited most for manufacturers and suppliers that Grades.com collects, one per site Grades.com connects. A site that shows another site's reviews is covered by connecting that site.
Site reach: estimated monthly organic search visits to the site's domain (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating, October 2026); an estimate for the whole domain, not a figure published by the site, and the same in every industry.
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