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Video advertising · September 2026 Edition

Meta Ads vs Vibe.co

Zero of twelve models named Meta Ads first on the direct prompt; zero named Vibe.co. Meta Ads was named by eleven of the twelve models and Vibe.co by ten and both carry 28 labels, so the shares below are directly comparable.

Meta Ads

accepted challenger

By Meta Platforms, Menlo Park, United States, founded 2004. Named in six categories this edition.

Vibe.co

accepted challenger

Named in two categories this edition.

First-choice share11%7%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate4%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#5A position in a field of 9; printed, not drawn.
Labels2828Equal, which is what makes the shares comparable.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Meta Ads reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.YouTube Ads was named alongside these two in eight of the twelve direct answers. StackAdapt vs Meta Ads · StackAdapt vs Vibe.co · YouTube Ads vs Meta Ads

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the video advertising page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Meta AdsFirst choices, of twelve modelsVibe.co
Direct00
Paraphrase03
Comparative31
Budget-constrained40
Scale-constrained10
Negative001 against Meta Ads
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Meta Ads and Vibe.co were named in the same answer twenty-eight times, of the 170 answers naming Meta Ads and the 87 naming Vibe.co. In those answers Vibe.co took the first choice three times and Meta Ads seven.

Every model, every framing

The seventy-two answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Meta Ads and Vibe.co stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
Meta Ads Vibe.co first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Meta Ads on the left and Vibe.co on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Meta Ads and Vibe.co stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

6 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5StackAdapt alternatives: AdRoll ABM, MNTN, Vibe.co, YouTube Ads
Gemini 3.5 FlashLinkedIn Campaign Manager, YouTube Ads alternatives: MNTN, VISTY, Vibe.co
Perplexity SonarStackAdapt alternatives: Demandbase, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, Vibe.co
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice alternatives: Goldcast, Vibe.co
Qwen 3.7 FlashLinkedIn Campaign Manager, YouTube Ads via Google Video/PMax campaigns alternatives: Meta Ads, Reddit Ads
GLM 4.7 FlashXLinkedIn Campaign Manager alternatives: Meta Ads, YouTube Ads

Neither was named

6 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniLinkedIn Campaign Manager alternatives: YouTube Ads
Grok 4.1 FastLinkedIn Campaign Manager alternatives: Demandbase CTV, YouTube Ads
Mistral SmallLinkedIn Video Ads alternatives: Vidyard, Wistia, YouTube Ads
DeepSeek V4 FlashLinkedIn Campaign Manager alternatives: StackAdapt, YouTube Ads
Kimi K2LinkedIn Campaign Manager alternatives: StackAdapt, YouTube Ads
MiniMax M2.5LinkedIn Video Ads alternatives: Vidyard, Wistia

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Meta Ads leads by eight points.
Meta Ads21%#1 of 9
Vibe.co13%#3 of 9
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Meta Ads leads by four points.
Meta Ads11%#4 of 9
Vibe.co7%#5 of 9
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Vibe.co leads at enterprise.
Vibe.co7%#4 of 10
Meta Ads0%#9 of 10
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Meta Ads

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.

“Significant fraud problem: ... Meta earns approximately 10% of its revenue (~$16 billion) from scam ads” MiniMax M2.5 · negative prompt · hard negative
“Meta (Facebook & Instagram) and TikTok offer the best combination of low entry costs and high return on investment for most small businesses.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“Meta (Facebook/Instagram) | Performance, e-commerce | Strong engagement, built-in creative tools, excellent for short-form video” MiniMax M2.5 · comparative prompt · first choice

What the models said about Vibe.co

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.

“My strong recommendation: Start with Vibe.co for its B2B-specific features, account-based targeting capabilities, and mid-market pricing.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Vibe.co is the top-rated self-serve option — 100% direct premium inventory, campaigns from $50/day, and built-in incrementality measurement.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · comparative prompt · first choice
“The Best for Pure Self-Serve & Low Budgets: Vibe.co ... is an outstanding entry point.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.