AI Plugin Leaderboard · Booking · September 2026
Which WordPress booking plugins do ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode recommend?
Amelia is named in 8 of 9 answers and first in 4. But the three engines do not agree on the leader: Google AI Mode put BookingPress first in two of its three answers, and neither ChatGPT nor Perplexity did that more than once.
The leaderboard
Sorted by how many of the nine answers named the plugin, then by its average position when it was named. Position is the order of first mention in the answer; the C · P · G column shows how many of the three ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode answers named it.
| # | Plugin | Named in | C · P · G | Avg. pos. | First |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amelia | 8 of 9 | 3 · 3 · 2 | 2.0 | 4 |
| 2 | Bookly | 7 of 9 | 2 · 2 · 3 | 3.1 | 0 |
| 3 | Simply Schedule Appointments | 7 of 9 | 3 · 2 · 2 | 3.4 | 1 |
| 4 | BookingPress | 5 of 9 | 1 · 1 · 3 | 1.6 | 3 |
| 5 | Booknetic | 5 of 9 | 2 · 2 · 1 | 3.0 | 1 |
| 6 | WooCommerce Bookings | 4 of 9 | 1 · 2 · 1 | 4.5 | 0 |
| 7 | LatePoint | 3 of 9 | 2 · 0 · 1 | 3.0 | 0 |
| 8 | Easy Appointments | 2 of 9 | 1 · 1 · 0 | 6.0 | 0 |
| 9 | Booktics | 1 of 9 | 0 · 1 · 0 | 3.0 | 0 |
| 10 | Booking Calendar (WP Booking Calendar) | 1 of 9 | 0 · 1 · 0 | 4.0 | 0 |
| 11 | Booking Package | 1 of 9 | 0 · 1 · 0 | 5.0 | 0 |
| 12 | WP Booking System | 1 of 9 | 0 · 1 · 0 | 5.0 | 0 |
| 13 | MotoPress Hotel Booking | 1 of 9 | 1 · 0 · 0 | 6.0 | 0 |
| 14 | MotoPress Appointment Booking | 1 of 9 | 0 · 1 · 0 | 6.0 | 0 |
What stands out
- Amelia is the consensus pick, not the unanimous one. ChatGPT and Perplexity named it in all three answers; Google AI Mode in two.
- Google leans BookingPress. Named in all three Google answers, first in two. ChatGPT and Perplexity named it once each.
- LatePoint is the most-installed booking plugin in the wordpress.org results we pulled, and Perplexity never named it. 3 of 9 answers overall, 0 of 3 on Perplexity.
- A social-posting plugin vendor is a booking source. fs-poster.com was a source in 4 of 9 booking answers. The same company, FS Code, sells Booknetic, which was named in 5.
Which sites the engines read for this category
Domains that appeared as a source, counted once per answer. For Perplexity and Google AI Mode this is the full source list the answer shows; for ChatGPT it is the retrieval set stored with the conversation, which is larger than the handful of citations it displays (Run 05 explains the gap).
| Domain | Answers | Engines |
|---|---|---|
| wpamelia.com | 8 of 9 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity |
| wordpress.org | 6 of 9 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity |
| booking-wp-plugin.com | 6 of 9 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity |
| hostney.com | 4 of 9 | ChatGPT, Perplexity |
| wppioneer.com | 4 of 9 | ChatGPT, Perplexity |
| fs-poster.com | 4 of 9 | ChatGPT, Perplexity |
| youtube.com | 4 of 9 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode |
| blogvault.net | 4 of 9 | Google AI Mode, Perplexity |
| jotform.com | 3 of 9 | ChatGPT |
| simplyscheduleappointments.com | 3 of 9 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity |
Big on wordpress.org, quiet in AI answers
Active installs are the ranges wordpress.org publishes, pulled from its public API on 17 September 2026. Installs are not quality, but a plugin this widely used being absent tells you the engines are not reading the directory to decide.
| Plugin | Active installs | Named in |
|---|---|---|
| LatePoint | 100,000+ | 3 of 9 |
| Amelia | 90,000+ | 8 of 9 |
| Bookly | 60,000+ | 7 of 9 |
| Simply Schedule Appointments | 50,000+ | 7 of 9 |
| FluentBooking | 20,000+ | 0 of 9 |
| Appointment Hour Booking | 10,000+ | 0 of 9 |
How this was measured
Three prompts, each put to ChatGPT (temporary chat, unpersonalized, web search on), Perplexity and Google AI Mode on 17 September 2026. The wording is taken from Google autocomplete, so these are phrasings people actually type:
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Plugin names were matched against a fixed candidate list, so the counting is mechanical rather than a judgement call. Treat a difference of one answer, or of one position, as noise: when the same prompt goes to the same engine twice, only about three quarters of the named products repeat (Run 01). The next update uses different real phrasings from the same autocomplete set, because repeating an identical prompt returns a cached source list (Run 04).
Is your booking plugin in these answers?
Send me your wordpress.org slug, or your product URL if you are not in the directory. I will run your category on all three engines and tell you which ones name you, which sites they read instead, and what that points to. Free, no call.
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