Original research · 2026-07 edition

AI SEO Statistics: Residential Rehab Center (2026-07 edition)

15 questions · 45 AI responses · 3 models · measured 2026-07-04

The question bank

The questions we tested — sampled from real buyer journeys in residential rehab center.

Each model answered every question once, same wording, same day. These are the prompts behind every percentage on this page.

How do I know if my brother needs a 30-day inpatient program or if intensive outpatient is enough?
What are the biggest red flags to look for when touring a private drug rehabilitation facility?
Is it better to send someone to a rehab center near home or is it more effective to go out of state?
My husband is refusing help but his drinking is out of control; what are the steps to get him into a residential facility?
What is the average daily cost for a residential treatment center if our insurance doesn't cover it?
Can you explain the difference between a dual-diagnosis center and a standard rehab facility?
What specific certifications should the medical staff at a high-end recovery center have?
Are there any residential programs that allow you to keep your phone and laptop for work?
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What happens during a typical day in a residential rehab and how much of it is actual therapy?
How do I vet a facility to make sure they aren't just a sober living house calling themselves a rehab?
We have a $15,000 budget for a month of treatment; what kind of amenities and care levels can we realistically expect?
Is detox usually included in the residential stay or is that a separate charge I need to plan for?
I need to find a bed for an opioid addiction today; what are the fastest ways to check real-time availability?
What are the success rates for 90-day programs compared to 30-day programs for long-term sobriety?
Do residential rehabs usually offer family therapy sessions as part of the package or is that an add-on?

Model by model

20-point average divergence: which AI you ask changes the answer.

The divergence index is the average gap between the most and least likely model per behavior. Higher = the models disagree more about residential rehab center buyers.

Behavior rates across 15 residential rehab center buyer questions, 2026-07 edition. Last column: average across models.
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiConsensus
Recommends hiring a professional53%47%27%53%
Suggests DIY first13%13%13%73%
Names specific providers13%13%7%93%
Gives price or cost info13%27%20%80%
Tells to check reviews7%7%0%93%
Tells to verify credentials40%20%20%60%
Mentions case studies / portfolio0%0%0%100%
Mentions local proximity33%33%7%60%
Gives selection criteria60%73%47%47%
Warns about red flags13%20%13%80%
Asks a clarifying question60%67%0%13%
Recommends multiple quotes7%0%0%93%

By model

How each assistant handled Residential Rehab Center questions.

Reading the 45 answers model by model shows how differently the three assistants treat the same residential rehab center questions. On the most consequential behavior — whether to send the buyer to a professional at all — the rate ranged from 53.3% (ChatGPT) down to 26.7% (Gemini), a 27-point gap on an identical question set.

Across the 15 residential rehab center answers it produced, ChatGPT recommended hiring a professional in 53.3% of them and suggested a DIY approach first 13.3% of the time. It named a specific provider in 13.3% of answers (about 0.1 distinct providers per answer) and included price or cost information 13.3% of the time. ChatGPT asked a clarifying question before answering in 60% of cases, warned about red flags or scams in 13.3%, and told the buyer to verify credentials in 40%, averaging 531 words per answer. On the remaining cues it told the buyer to check reviews in 6.7%, pointed to case studies or a portfolio in 0%, and framed the choice around local proximity in 33.3%; a selection-criteria checklist appeared in 60% of its answers and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 6.7%.

Across the 15 residential rehab center answers it produced, Claude recommended hiring a professional in 46.7% of them and suggested a DIY approach first 13.3% of the time. It named a specific provider in 13.3% of answers (about 0.1 distinct providers per answer) and included price or cost information 26.7% of the time. Claude asked a clarifying question before answering in 66.7% of cases, warned about red flags or scams in 20%, and told the buyer to verify credentials in 20%, averaging 290 words per answer. On the remaining cues it told the buyer to check reviews in 6.7%, pointed to case studies or a portfolio in 0%, and framed the choice around local proximity in 33.3%; a selection-criteria checklist appeared in 73.3% of its answers and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 0%.

Across the 15 residential rehab center answers it produced, Gemini recommended hiring a professional in 26.7% of them and suggested a DIY approach first 13.3% of the time. It named a specific provider in 6.7% of answers (about 0 distinct providers per answer) and included price or cost information 20% of the time. Gemini asked a clarifying question before answering in 0% of cases, warned about red flags or scams in 13.3%, and told the buyer to verify credentials in 20%, averaging 234 words per answer. On the remaining cues it told the buyer to check reviews in 0%, pointed to case studies or a portfolio in 0%, and framed the choice around local proximity in 6.7%; a selection-criteria checklist appeared in 46.7% of its answers and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 0%.

Taken together, ChatGPT is the assistant most likely to route a residential rehab center buyer to a professional (53.3%) and Gemini the least (26.7%). ChatGPT produced the longest answers, at 531 words on average. Specific providers were named most often by ChatGPT (13.3%) — even there, roughly one answer in 8 carried a name.

Where they disagree

The behaviors where the choice of model changes the answer.

The divergence index for this study is 19.6 points — the average distance between the most and least likely model across the coded behaviors. The gaps below are where which assistant a residential rehab center buyer happens to ask matters most:

  • Asks a clarifying question: from 0% (Gemini) to 66.7% (Claude) — a 67-point spread.
  • Recommends hiring a professional: from 26.7% (Gemini) to 53.3% (ChatGPT) — a 27-point spread.
  • Mentions local proximity: from 6.7% (Gemini) to 33.3% (ChatGPT) — a 27-point spread.
  • Gives selection criteria: from 46.7% (Gemini) to 73.3% (Claude) — a 27-point spread.
  • Tells the buyer to verify credentials: from 20% (Claude) to 40% (ChatGPT) — a 20-point spread.

The widest single gap — asks a clarifying question, 67 points — means a residential rehab center buyer can receive materially different guidance on the same question depending only on which assistant they happen to open, so any visibility strategy built on a single model's behavior describes only part of the residential rehab center market.

Where they agree

The points of near-consensus in Residential Rehab Center.

On other behaviors the three models move almost in lockstep — the points of near-consensus for residential rehab center, where all three landed within a few points of each other:

  • Suggests a DIY approach first: 13.3% across all three models.
  • Mentions case studies or portfolio: 0% across all three models.
  • Names a specific provider: 6.7%–13.3% across all three (a 7-point spread).
  • Tells the buyer to check reviews: 0%–6.7% across all three (a 7-point spread).

Measured question by question, the three assistants coded a response the same way most consistently on "mentions case studies or portfolio" (identical coding in 100% of questions) and least consistently on "asks a clarifying question" (13.3%).

Every behavior, measured

All twelve coded behaviors for Residential Rehab Center, averaged across the three models.

The behaviors AI models reproduce most often for residential rehab center are gives selection criteria (60% on average), recommends hiring a professional (42.2%) and asks a clarifying question (42.2%); the rarest are mentions case studies or portfolio (0%), recommends multiple quotes (2.2%) and tells the buyer to check reviews (4.5%). Each figure below is the share of a model's 15 answers in which the behavior appeared at least once, averaged across the 3 models with the full per-model range in parentheses:

  • Gives selection criteria: 60% on average (ChatGPT 60%, Claude 73.3%, Gemini 46.7%) — a 27-point spread.
  • Recommends hiring a professional: 42.2% on average (ChatGPT 53.3%, Claude 46.7%, Gemini 26.7%) — a 27-point spread.
  • Asks a clarifying question: 42.2% on average (ChatGPT 60%, Claude 66.7%, Gemini 0%) — a 67-point spread.
  • Tells the buyer to verify credentials: 26.7% on average (ChatGPT 40%, Claude 20%, Gemini 20%) — a 20-point spread.
  • Mentions local proximity: 24.4% on average (ChatGPT 33.3%, Claude 33.3%, Gemini 6.7%) — a 27-point spread.
  • Gives price or cost information: 20% on average (ChatGPT 13.3%, Claude 26.7%, Gemini 20%) — a 13-point spread.
  • Warns about red flags or scams: 15.5% on average (ChatGPT 13.3%, Claude 20%, Gemini 13.3%) — a 7-point spread.
  • Suggests a DIY approach first: 13.3% on average (ChatGPT 13.3%, Claude 13.3%, Gemini 13.3%).
  • Names a specific provider: 11.1% on average (ChatGPT 13.3%, Claude 13.3%, Gemini 6.7%) — a 7-point spread.
  • Tells the buyer to check reviews: 4.5% on average (ChatGPT 6.7%, Claude 6.7%, Gemini 0%) — a 7-point spread.
  • Recommends multiple quotes: 2.2% on average (ChatGPT 6.7%, Claude 0%, Gemini 0%) — a 7-point spread.
  • Mentions case studies or portfolio: 0% on average (ChatGPT 0%, Claude 0%, Gemini 0%).

Trust signals

How well the models protect the residential rehab center buyer.

Beyond whether to hire, the rubric codes how carefully each assistant protects the residential rehab center buyer once a decision is made. Telling the buyer to check reviews or ratings appeared in 4.5% of answers on average. Verifying credentials or certifications appeared in 26.7%. Warning about red flags or scams appeared in 15.5%.

On structuring the decision, a selection-criteria checklist showed up in 60% of answers on average and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 2.2%. The single least-reproduced protective signal for residential rehab center is "recommends multiple quotes" at 2.2% on average — the clearest opening for content that supplies it, since the models are not yet reliably surfacing that guidance on their own.

Referral behavior

Do AI models name Residential Rehab Center providers?

For service providers the decisive question is whether these systems name anyone at all. Across 45 residential rehab center answers, a specific provider was named in 11.1% of responses on average — roughly 0.1 distinct providers per answer. In practice the assistants behave far more as an explanatory layer than as a referral engine for residential rehab center: visibility comes from being the reasoning a model reproduces, not from being the named recommendation.

The question set

What these 15 Residential Rehab Center questions cover.

The 15 questions behind every percentage on this page were drawn from real residential rehab center (healthcare services; buyer hiring decisions for this specific service) buyer journeys. Each was put to all 3 models once, with identical wording, so the rates above describe how the assistants handled this exact residential rehab center question set — not a general prior or a hand-picked subset. The full list is shown earlier on this page; the coded percentages are what those specific questions produced.

How to read this

A note on the numbers.

A percentage here is the share of a model's 15 answers in which the behavior appeared at least once — not a confidence score. Because each model answered every question exactly once on 2026-07-04, the figures describe this specific residential rehab center question set and snapshot rather than a general prior. The full protocol and coding rubric are documented in the study methodology.

Methodology

A controlled snapshot, documented end to end.

15 standardized buyer questions per industry, one response per model per question (ChatGPT (gpt-5-mini), Claude (claude-sonnet-5), Gemini (gemini-3-flash-preview)), collected 2026-07-04, coded against a fixed 12-behavior rubric with human QA. AI outputs vary with model version, location and time — figures describe this sample and window, and are refreshed each edition. Read the full methodology →