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The Marrow UK Insurance AI Visibility Index · Q3 2026

Car insurance: AI Visibility Index

What this Index measures

The AI Visibility Index measures how often and how favourably each brand appears in the answers given by AI assistants to common insurance questions. It is not a measure of price, cover, claims service, financial strength or value for money, and it is not a recommendation to buy any product. A high score means a brand is well represented in AI answers. It does not mean the insurance is better.

Independence and conflicts

  • No brand pays to be listed, removed or re-ranked. Positions are measured from real AI responses.
  • Marrow sells infrastructure to insurers and may have a commercial relationship with brands appearing in the Index.
  • Marrow is not an insurer or a broker, and is not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority.
How the Index is governed

Informational only. Not financial advice, not a personal recommendation, and not a comparison of price or cover. Always check terms directly with the insurer.

Top 11 of 11 brands · Updated 2026-08-10

  1. #1

    Admiral

    IntermediaryCarrier details incomplete

    Underwritten by a panel of 3 carriers: Admiral Insurance Company Limited, Admiral Insurance (Gibraltar) Limited, Great Lakes Insurance UK Limited. Insurer details

    Score 51 · Vis 47 · Sen 59 · Acc 99 · Rec 19

  2. #2

    Aviva

    Insurer

    Underwritten by Aviva Insurance Limited. Insurer details

    Score 48 · Vis 44 · Sen 61 · Acc 91 · Rec 14

    5
  3. #3

    Direct Line

    Insurer

    Underwritten by U K Insurance Limited. Insurer details

    Score 45 · Vis 34 · Sen 60 · Acc 97 · Rec 12

    1
  4. #4

    LV=

    Insurer

    Underwritten by Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Limited. Insurer details

    Score 44 · Vis 33 · Sen 61 · Acc 97 · Rec 9

    1
  5. #5

    NFU Mutual

    Insurer

    Underwritten by The National Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Society Limited. Insurer details

    Score 39 · Vis 17 · Sen 66 · Acc 95 · Rec 5

    1
  6. #6

    Hastings Direct

    IntermediaryCarrier details incomplete

    Underwritten by Advantage Insurance Company Limited. Insurer details

    Score 38 · Vis 20 · Sen 56 · Acc 99 · Rec 3

    1
  7. #7

    Saga

    Intermediary

    Underwritten by Ageas Insurance Limited. Insurer details

    Score 38 · Vis 11 · Sen 63 · Acc 98 · Rec 7

    5
  8. #8

    Churchill

    Insurer

    Underwritten by U K Insurance Limited. Insurer details

    Score 37 · Vis 16 · Sen 55 · Acc 99 · Rec 3

  9. #9

    AXA

    Insurer

    Underwritten by AXA Insurance UK plc. Insurer details

    Score 35 · Vis 13 · Sen 53 · Acc 97 · Rec 2

  10. #10

    Tesco Bank

    Intermediary

    Underwritten by Tesco Underwriting Limited. Insurer details

    Score 32 · Vis 5 · Sen 55 · Acc 93 · Rec 2

  11. #11

    Co-op

    IntermediaryCarrier details incompleteLimited data

    Underwritten by Underwriting carrier not established for this line. Insurer details

    Score 26 · Vis 3 · Sen 52 · Acc 75 · Rec 0

Showing the top 20 brands by AI Visibility Score. The Index ranks consumer brands, not insurers. The company each contract of insurance is made with is named on every row.

AI Visibility Scores are derived from live AI assistant outputs, which vary by prompt, session and model version, so they are a directional signal of AI visibility rather than a guarantee of how any single query will respond. The Index is editorial and unsponsored. This is not financial advice; always confirm policy terms directly with the insurer.

Direct Line and Churchill are both underwritten by U K Insurance Limited and are ranked here as separate consumer brands, not as separate insurers.

Ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini about car insurance and you will get a confident answer naming particular brands. This page measures which brands those are. It scores how often each UK car insurance brand is named in AI answers, how favourably it is described, and how accurately, refreshed each quarter.

Car insurance is the most AI-queried line we measure. Shoppers ask about cover for young and new drivers, black-box and telematics policies, multi-car and named-driver setups, and protecting a no-claims discount. Brands whose public product information lines up cleanly with those specific questions tend to be named more often and described more accurately.

A high position below means a brand is well represented in AI answers about car cover. It does not mean the insurance is better, cheaper or more suitable for you.


Methodology

How the car insurance Index is measured

Each quarter we put real car insurance questions to leading AI assistants and read every answer. For each brand we score four things: whether it was named at all (visibility), how positive the language was (sentiment), whether the facts the model gave were correct (accuracy), and whether the model presented it as a top pick (recommendation). Those blend into a single 0-100 AI Visibility Score. All four describe the AI answer. None of them measures price, cover, claims service or value for money.

This quarter's car insurance measurement draws on 38 questions, each put to 3 AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) 10 times, for 1,140 answers analysed across 11 brands.

Example questions we asked

  • Which UK car insurer handles claims fastest?
  • Best car insurance for a young or new driver?
  • Admiral or Direct Line, which is better for car insurance?
  • Cheapest fully comprehensive car insurance in the UK?

These are the questions consumers actually type, so the battery uses their wording. Asking an assistant for the “best” or “cheapest” product is how the measurement is taken. It is not a claim by Marrow that any answer is correct.

For the full scoring methodology across every line, see the AI Visibility Score methodology.


What AI sees

How AI answers describe car insurance brands

What stands out for motor is how often AI assistants name direct brands and well-known names over price-comparison sites, especially on follow-up questions about specific scenarios such as adding a young driver or insuring a modified car. Accuracy is where brands lose ground: when a model misstates a policy's telematics terms or excess, that drags the accuracy dimension down even where visibility is high.


FAQ

Car insurance: common questions

Does a high score mean the car insurance is better?+

No. The AI Visibility Score measures how often and how favourably a brand appears in AI assistant answers. It measures nothing about price, cover, claims service, financial strength or value for money, and it is not a recommendation to buy any product.

What does the motor score actually measure?+

Four things, blended into one 0-100 number: whether the brand was named at all (visibility), how positive the surrounding language was (sentiment), whether the facts the model gave about the brand were correct (accuracy), and whether the model presented it as a top pick (recommendation). All four describe the AI answer, not the insurance.

Do AI assistants account for telematics or black-box policies?+

Increasingly, yes. Models surface telematics and young-driver products when a prompt mentions age or driving history. They often get the specific terms wrong, so brands with clear, public product information tend to be described more accurately.

Is this ranking sponsored?+

No. No brand pays to be listed, removed or re-ranked. Scores are measured from real AI responses across ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Marrow sells infrastructure to insurers and may have a commercial relationship with brands appearing in the Index; see the governance page.


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