Gyms in San Francisco that AI assistants recommend
We asked ChatGPT and Claude the four questions a buyer asks when looking for gyms in San Francisco, three times each, in English, and counted who they named. These are the businesses named in two or more of the 24 answers.
Names are printed as the assistants wrote them. We have not checked that any of them is good, open, or real.
- Answers
- 24
- Businesses named
- 31
- Named only once
- 19
- Named by 2+ assistants
- 9 of 12
- Named again on a rerun
- 41%
Edition September 2026. Download the data
Asked for gyms in San Francisco, ChatGPT and Claude most often named Fitness SF (92% of answers), YMCA of San Francisco (58%) and Crunch Fitness San Francisco (58%). Across 24 answers they named 31 different businesses, 19 of them only once. Each of four buyer questions was asked three times, in English, in September 2026.
The ranking
Share is the fraction of the 24 answers that named a business. The range under it is a 95% confidence interval: where two ranges overlap, the gap between those businesses could be chance.
| # | Business | Share | ChatGPT | Claude | Questions | Avg. position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fitness SF | 95%: 74 to 98% | 92% | 92% | 4 of 4 | 1.6 |
| 2 | YMCA of San Francisco | 95%: 39 to 76% | 67% | 50% | 4 of 4 | 2.7 |
| 3 | Crunch Fitness San Francisco | 95%: 39 to 76% | 58% | 58% | 4 of 4 | 3.8 |
| 4 | Live Fit Gym | 95%: 21 to 57% | 42% | 33% | 4 of 4 | 4.1 |
| 5 | Barry’s San FranciscoAlso written Barry's San Francisco | 95%: 15 to 49% | 25% | 33% | 2 of 4 | 1.4 |
| 6 | Bay Club San FranciscoAlso written The Bay Club San Francisco | 95%: 9 to 41% | 17% | 25% | 2 of 4 | 2.6 |
| 7 | Equinox San Francisco | 95%: 9 to 41% | 25% | 17% | 3 of 4 | 2.6 |
| 8 | JCCSF Fitness Center | 95%: 4 to 31% | 8% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 4.3 |
| 9 | The Olympic Club | 95%: 2 to 26% | 17% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 1.5 |
| 10 | Fitness SF Mid-MarketAlso written Fitness SF – Mid-Market | 95%: 2 to 26% | 8% | 8% | 2 of 4 | 2.5 |
| 11 | Crunch Fitness - Polk Street | 95%: 2 to 26% | 17% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 3.5 |
| 12 | Planet Fitness San Francisco | 95%: 2 to 26% | 17% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 5.5 |
Each assistant column is the share of that assistant's own answers. Questions counts how many of the four produced the name at least once; position is where it came in the answer's list, 1 being first. 19 more names came up in a single answer and are counted above but not listed.
What each assistant said
The same questions, the same number of times, and often different names. Each column is one assistant's top five from the ranking above, with the share of its own answers that named them.
| # | ChatGPT | Claude |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fitness SF92% | Fitness SF92% |
| 2 | YMCA of San Francisco67% | Crunch Fitness San Francisco58% |
| 3 | Crunch Fitness San Francisco58% | YMCA of San Francisco50% |
| 4 | Live Fit Gym42% | Live Fit Gym33% |
| 5 | Barry’s San Francisco25% | Barry’s San Francisco33% |
Named here? Put it on your site
Every business in the ranking was named in two or more answers. The badge says that and nothing more: no position, because the ranges above do not support one. It links back to this page, so anyone can check.
<a href="https://aigrow.gg/index/gyms/san-francisco"><img src="https://aigrow.gg/badges/index/2026-09/gyms/san-francisco.svg" width="312" height="100" alt="Named by AI assistants: Gyms in San Francisco, AIGROW AI Visibility Index, September 2026"></a>The questions
Asked word for word, three times each, to every assistant through its API. The prompt is the one the free scan uses. No web search, no location and no chat history, so every answer starts from the same place.
- 1What is the best gym in San Francisco?
- 2I want to join a gym in San Francisco. Which ones would you recommend?
- 3Which gym in San Francisco is good for beginners?
- 4Where can I find a gym in San Francisco with good group classes?
How to read this page
- What it measures
- Which names these models produce when asked cold, from what they learned in training. It is not a review, a rating or our recommendation, and a business missing here may simply be one the models were never shown.
- Why the ranges matter
- 24 answers is a sample. Asked again next month, most shares will move by a few points; the ranges say how far they could move by chance alone.
- One business, several spellings
- Branches, legal suffixes and spellings of one business are merged, and the other spellings are printed under its name. Names that might be two businesses are kept apart.
- A name is wrong
- If a business here is closed, misnamed or yours and you want it removed, tell us. We correct or remove it when the page is next published.
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Edition September 2026 · data under CC BY 4.0