Head to head · Dealership management systems · release 2026-09
Auto/Mate vs CDK Global
Auto/Mate: 15 of 150. CDK Global: 90 of 150. Same ten buyer questions, same five engines, same day. There was no question where Auto/Mate was named and CDK Global was not. All five engines named Auto/Mate at least once.
CDK Global is the most named checked vendor in dealership management systems in this release, so every other vendor in the category is compared with it.
One capture on 22 September 2026, ten fixed questions, three runs per engine. Not a ranking, and an engine can answer differently on a refresh.
Each engine's count over its valid answers to all ten questions.
Auto/Mate and CDK Global, named per engine.
Vendor
ChatGPT
Claude
Perplexity
Google AI Overviews
Google AI Mode
Auto/Mate
1 of 30
4 of 30
4 of 30
3 of 30
3 of 30
CDK Global
15 of 30
20 of 30
15 of 30
20 of 30
20 of 30
Measured head to head
No question in this release asked the engines to choose between Auto/Mate and CDK Global; the counts above come from the ten buyer questions.
What the engines said about each
Auto/Mate, another budget-friendly option for independent or smaller dealerships, though the results are less specific than for DealerCenter and Frazer.
One sentence per engine at most, chosen by a fixed rule: the first full sentence naming a checked vendor, read in run order. Every answer in full: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695.
What to do with this
Auto/Mate claims its record, free, and runs the free check on its own name. The widest gap is on “Tekion vs CDK, which DMS is better for a franchise dealer”: that is the question to fix with Answer Repair, $490.