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HelloFresh vs Blue Apron

Meal kits48 scenarios

Panel, equal weight

  • Claude Haiku 5.5anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash
  • Gemini 3.8 Flashgoogle/gemini-3.8-flash
  • GLM-5.3 Flashz-ai/glm-5.3-flash
  • GPT-6 Lunaopenai/gpt-6-luna
  • Grok 4.7x-ai/grok-4.7
  • Kimi K3.1 Promoonshotai/kimi-k3.1-pro
  • Llama 4 Maverickmeta-llama/llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct
  • Mistral Small 2603mistralai/mistral-small-2603

The answer

LikelyFast panel

HelloFresh

HelloFresh 62% · Blue Apron 38% — all 9 models combined

4 clearly prefer HelloFresh · 5 with no clear preference · 0 clearly prefer Blue Apron · excluded: 1 · all 9 counted models are in the overall result

95% interval for HelloFresh: 51–73%

Detailseach model, intervals, conditions

All models combined

Fast panel

LikelyAll 9 models combined lean HelloFresh (the interval excludes 50%); on their own: 4 clearly prefer HelloFresh · 5 with no clear preference · 0 clearly prefer Blue Apron.

HelloFresh62%

Blue Apron38%

  • Confidence interval for HelloFresh: 51–73%

Consensus95% interval 51–73%

Each model

Share for the brand named in each row, with its interval

Bar: HelloFresh from the left, Blue Apron from the right; dashed line = 50%.

Conditional pick share by judge for the brand named in each row (among scenarios where the judge picked a brand), with confidence intervals. 95% confidence intervals (hull of the scenario-clustered bootstrap and Wilson intervals, widened for small samples in battles and newer boards)
Judge (API model)Brand and shareConfidence intervalLeaningInterval chart
Claude Haiku 5.5HelloFresh: 58%46–70%No clear preference
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashHelloFresh: 52%38–66%No clear preference
Gemini 3.8 FlashHelloFresh: 69%55–81%Clear preference
GLM-5.3 FlashHelloFresh: 68%54–80%Clear preference
GPT-6 LunaHelloFresh: 56%44–67%No clear preference
Grok 4.7HelloFresh: 70%56–82%Clear preference
Kimi K3.1 ProHelloFresh: 58%46–69%No clear preference
Llama 4 MaverickHelloFresh: 82%69–91%Clear preference
Mistral Small 2603HelloFresh: 48%34–62%No clear preference

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HelloFresh
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Simulation: scenario paths made up to reproduce the published per-judge shares, not measured rows.

The AI consensus leans to HelloFresh

Published 95% confidence interval for HelloFresh: 51–73%. Press Drop to watch simulated scenarios land.

How to read it

Each ball is a simulated buying scenario. Each row of pins is an AI model, pushing the ball toward the brand it picked.

One drop is one sample. Drop again and the pile shifts; the orange band shows where the balance lands in 95% of drops.

A leader is named only when the band clears the middle. The paths are simulated from the published per-judge shares: no model saw these scenarios.

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The share is how often the models chose each brand, with its 95% interval. A brand leads only when its whole interval is above 50%, for all models combined and for each model on its own; otherwise it is too close to call.

Each page shows the latest edition. Dates are in the downloadable JSON.

Who was counted

  • The pre-registered inclusion rule counted 9 of the 10 judges on the panel.
  • The results use 48 of the 48 planned scenarios.
Consensus weights of 9 counted judges
Weight of each counted judge in the consensus
Judge (API model)Model familyWeight in the consensus
Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic11.1%
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek11.1%
Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle11.1%
GLM-5.3 FlashZ.ai11.1%
GPT-6 LunaOpenAI11.1%
Grok 4.7xAI11.1%
Kimi K3.1 ProMoonshot AI11.1%
Llama 4 MaverickMeta11.1%
Mistral Small 2603Mistral AI11.1%

Judges not counted

jdg-live-qwen3-8-flash-or-v1
Too few valid answers (below the pre-registered minimum)

Need-level results

Need-level results are not published: 6 scenarios per need, below the pre-registered minimum of 30.

8 buyer needs
  • Cooking skills and world flavors
  • Family-friendly favorites
  • Flexible skips and swaps
  • High-protein meals
  • Lowest cost per serving
  • Organic ingredients
  • Vegetarian variety
  • Fast weeknights, little cleanup

Methodology

Each judge is an AI model called through an API; “About this result” names each model and how it was called. In each buyer scenario, the judge chooses between the two brands. The scenario is the unit of analysis.

Version
ACM-1.0
Precision
Measured
Consensus, needs and languages
95% confidence intervals (MOVER combination of the per-judge intervals, widened for small samples in battles and newer boards). The consensus gives equal weight to each model family. The per-judge results in “Each model” are the primary measure.
Per judge
95% confidence intervals (hull of the scenario-clustered bootstrap and Wilson intervals, widened for small samples in battles and newer boards). A single model's view is one judge, not the consensus.
Panel
Fast panel: the fast or small current models of each vendor, not the full flagship panel.

Data warnings

  • Brand names only: the models saw each option as a brand name, with no product facts, and answered from their own knowledge.

About this result

AI models (API)
  • Claude Haiku 5.5
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash
  • GLM-5.3 Flash
  • GPT-6 Luna
  • Grok 4.7
  • Kimi K3.1 Pro
  • Llama 4 Maverick
  • Mistral Small 2603

Every model was called via OpenRouter (pinned providers).

Conditions
Each model chose between the two brands in 48 buyer scenarios. Scenario languages: English.
Pre-registration (SHA-256)
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