ChatGPT · measured July 2026
The ChatGPT Shelf for Vitamin C Serums
CeraVe leads on an affordability question
CeraVe 60%, The Ordinary 47%, La Roche-Posay 38%. Worth reading with the prompt framing in mind — these questions asked for affordable serums, so this ranks the value shelf, not the whole category. Ulta carries 57% of the offers and brand-direct is 6 offers out of 3,756.
- Questions asked
- 653
- Brands seen
- 132
- Offers recorded
- 3,756
- Through a feed
- 84%
Who ChatGPT names
Share of shelf is the percentage of answers a brand appeared in. It is not a rank of quality or sales — it is how often the model brought the brand up when someone asked about an affordable vitamin C serum.
- 1 CeraVe 60%
- 2 The Ordinary 47%
- 3 La Roche-Posay 38%
- 4 Naturium 24%
- 5 The INKEY List 24%
- 6 Good Molecules 23%
- 7 e.l.f. 19%
- 8 Vanicream 16%
Where the offers come from
Every product ChatGPT showed came from somewhere. Brand-direct means the offer pointed at the brand's own store rather than a retailer.
- Ulta 57% · 1,803 offers
- Walmart 13% · 418 offers
- Target 13% · 412 offers
- Sephora 11% · 343 offers
- CVS 3% · 93 offers
How the shelf gets built
84% of the offers here arrived through a product feed rather than a page crawl, and 6 of them came direct from a brand.
| Shelf position | Offers | Through a feed | Brand named |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top of shelf | 1,745 | 84% | 83% |
| Positions 2–3 | 1,513 | 84% | 84% |
| Position 4 and below | 498 | 84% | 83% |
Who writes this shelf
Before ChatGPT names a an affordable vitamin C serum brand, it reads. These are the sources it cited most when building this shelf.
- nbcnews.com 1,008 citations
- allure.com 741 citations
- glamour.com 684 citations
- aad.org 589 citations
- goodhousekeeping.com 461 citations
- healthline.com 452 citations
How we measured this
- We asked ChatGPT 653 shopping questions about an affordable vitamin C serum in July 2026. The questions never named a brand, so nothing here was prompted into the answer.
- Questions were repeated. ChatGPT does not answer the same way twice, so a single ask tells you nothing — share of shelf is the pattern across all 653 of them.
- We recorded every brand mentioned and every product offer shown, 3,756 offers across 132 brands.
- This is one engine, one country, one point in time. It is a snapshot of a shelf that moves.
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