Head to head · Dealership management systems · release 2026-09

Autosoft vs CDK Global

Autosoft: 20 of 150. CDK Global: 90 of 150. Same ten buyer questions, same five engines, same day. There was no question where Autosoft was named and CDK Global was not. All five engines named Autosoft 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.

The Autosoft record · The CDK Global record

Side by side

All ten buyer questions, five engines, three runs. Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.
MeasureAutosoftCDK Global
Named20 of 150 (13.3%, Wilson 95% interval 8.8% to 19.7%)90 of 150 (60.0%, Wilson 95% interval 52.0% to 67.5%)
Own domain cited3 of 150 (2.0%, Wilson 95% interval 0.7% to 5.7%)13 of 150 (8.7%, Wilson 95% interval 5.1% to 14.3%)

By question

Counts per question, over that question's valid answers.

By engine

Each engine's count over its valid answers to all ten questions.

Autosoft and CDK Global, named per engine.
VendorChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI Mode
Autosoft3 of 306 of 305 of 302 of 304 of 30
CDK Global15 of 3020 of 3015 of 3020 of 3020 of 30

Measured head to head

No question in this release asked the engines to choose between Autosoft and CDK Global; the counts above come from the ten buyer questions.

What the engines said about each

Autosoft DMS suits low-volume franchise dealerships that value strong accounting and a friendly interface over deep customization.

Claude, . Full answer text in the deposit.

It is not trying to be the same kind of giant enterprise DMS as CDK or Reynolds, and that's the point.

Claude, . Full answer text in the deposit. Dash punctuation normalized.

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.

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Release
2026-09, published
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.22907695
Method
v1.1: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode; ten fixed buyer questions per category; three runs per engine
Captured
Base
150 valid answers across ten questions; 0 excluded
Licence
CC BY 4.0, attribution to Broadcastwell
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Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.

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