EmailOctopus vs Loops

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-28

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EmailOctopus and Loops both stay on the sidelines more often than not, showing up in 5 and 8 of 59 answers overall. EmailOctopus scores 5 out of 100 and gets its best showing on "best free email marketing tools," named in all 3 answers there. Loops scores 7 out of 100, with its strongest mention in "best tool for automated onboarding and drip emails" (2 of 3 answers). Head-to-head, Loops comes out ahead, named more often than EmailOctopus in 7 questions versus 3, with 10 ties. By assistant, Claude rates Loops highest at 17, while Perplexity never names it at all.

Head to head

metric	EmailOctopus	Loops
score	5	7
questions won	3	7

By assistant

EmailOctopus

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	4	5% of answers	#4.0
Claude	9	15% of answers	#5.0
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	3	5% of answers	#6.0

Loops

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	5	5% of answers	#1.0
Claude	17	35% of answers	#8.3
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	0	0% of answers

Where they differ

Only EmailOctopus gets named for

What are the best free email marketing tools?
What's the best email tool with a good free tier for under 1,000 subscribers?
Which email marketing platform is best value for money?

Only Loops gets named for

What's the best tool for automated onboarding and drip emails?
What's the best email platform for a SaaS startup?
What's the best email platform for developers with a clean API?
What's the best email platform that doesn't charge for duplicate subscribers?
What's the best alternative to Mailchimp?
What's the best email marketing software in 2026?
What's the best email platform that segments users by behaviour?

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