AI Shortlist Index · October 2026 snapshot · Prompt Set v1.0
Parking Management: AI Shortlist Index, October 2026
The parking management ranking as the October 2026 edition measured it: 50 runs across 25 prompts. The live category page carries the current edition; this one does not change.
Editorial read
Fifty runs, one per prompt on each engine: ChatGPT through the OpenAI API on 30 October 2026 (15 by gpt-6-luna, 10 by gpt-6.1-terra), Claude through the Anthropic API on 31 October. Reliant Parking was named in 74% of runs (87% on Claude), Community Boss in 68% and Parkade in 52%. Vendor sites took 91% of the citations among the top twenty domains, the highest share in the edition. One run per prompt per engine; read it as a first reading.
Ranking
| # | Vendor | Mention rate | Engines | Consistency | Move | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reliant Parking | 74% | 2/2 | – | ▲ 3 | – |
| 2 | Community Boss | 68% | 2/2 | – | ▼ 1 | – |
| 3 | Parkade | 52% | 2/2 | – | ▼ 1 | – |
| 4 | ParkM | 44% | 2/2 | – | ▼ 1 | – |
| 5 | ParkStash | 26% | 2/2 | – | ▲ 2 | – |
| 6 | 5280 Parking | 20% | 2/2 | – | – | – |
| 7 | ParkingPass | 20% | 2/2 | – | ▲ 2 | – |
| 8 | Zark Parking | 18% | 2/2 | – | ▲ 4 | – |
| 9 | ApartmentPermits | 16% | 2/2 | – | ▼ 4 | – |
| 10 | ParqEx | 16% | 1/2 | – | ▲ 4 | – |
| 11 | Online Parking Permits | 13% | 2/2 | – | ▲ 5 | – |
| 12 | Park Entra | 12% | 1/2 | – | ▼ 2 | – |
| 13 | SmartRent | 12% | 2/2 | – | ▼ 5 | – |
| 14 | SimplyPermits | 10% | 2/2 | – | ▼ 1 | – |
| 15 | Wayleadr | 8% | 2/2 | – | – | – |
| 16 | Parking Permits of America | 8% | 1/2 | – | – | – |
| 17 | Park Graph | 8% | 1/2 | – | ▼ 6 | – |
| 18 | Parkva | 6% | 1/2 | – | – | – |
| 19 | Parkeaz | 6% | 1/2 | – | – | – |
| 20 | PLACA.AI | 6% | 1/2 | – | – | – |
| 21 | PatrolWorks | 4% | 1/2 | – | – | – |
| 22 | Condo Control | 4% | 1/2 | – | ▼ 4 | – |
| 23 | Kastle Systems | 4% | 2/2 | – | – | – |
| 24 | Laneo | 4% | 1/2 | – | – | – |
| 25 | ElevateOS | 2% | 1/2 | – | – | – |
| 26 | SWTCH Energy | 2% | 1/2 | – | – | – |
| 27 | RemoteLock | 2% | 1/2 | – | – | – |
| 28 | ButterflyMX | 2% | 1/2 | – | – | – |
| 29 | Enumerate | 2% | 1/2 | – | – | – |
| 30 | Lotably | 2% | 1/2 | – | – | – |
Engines
| Engine | Status | Model | Runs | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | ran | gpt-6-luna, gpt-6.1-terra | 25 | |
| Claude | ran | claude-haiku-5-5 | 25 |
Part of the October 2026 edition of the AI Shortlist Index. All editions: archive.