AI answers about gyms and Pilates studios in Singapore lean on deal sites, listicles and social platforms. Across 43 buyer questions, the gyms’ and studios’ own websites take 42 of 478 listed citations (9%) in the four scored engines’ top-15 lists. That is AI search for gyms in Singapore as measured in November 2026: the highest score is 28.3 out of 100, and the studio Google puts first for “pilates singapore” sits joint 10th in AI.
The ranking: 20 fitness businesses by AI visibility
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ChatGPT: 3 · Gemini: 1 · Perplexity: 10 · Google AI Overviews: 3
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ChatGPT: 3 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 3 · Google AI Overviews: 7
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ChatGPT: 0 · Gemini: 2 · Perplexity: 1 · Google AI Overviews: 6
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ChatGPT: 3 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 2 · Google AI Overviews: 4
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ChatGPT: 1 · Gemini: 2 · Perplexity: 4 · Google AI Overviews: 2
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ChatGPT: 4 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 3 · Google AI Overviews: 0
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ChatGPT: 4 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 2 · Google AI Overviews: 1
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ChatGPT: 1 · Gemini: 2 · Perplexity: 3 · Google AI Overviews: 1
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ChatGPT: 3 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 0 · Google AI Overviews: 2
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Linked citations in four scored engines. Equal scores share a rank. Scores describe visibility in this panel, not business quality.
Source: Ahrefs Brand Radar, Singapore, November 2026.
View data: AI citation leaderboard
| Rank | Business | Score | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity | AI Overviews | Google rank | DR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fitness First Singapore | 28.3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 3 | n/r | 46 |
| 2 | Club Pilates Singapore | 21.7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | n/r | 27 |
| =3 | Lab Studios | 15.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | n/r | 32 |
| =3 | SG Pilates | 15.0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2.1 |
| =3 | Catalyst | 15.0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | n/r | 54 |
| =6 | Anytime Fitness Singapore | 11.7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | n/r | 36 |
| =6 | Virgin Active Singapore | 11.7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | n/r | 45 |
| =6 | Pilates Fitness | 11.7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | n/r | 24 |
| 9 | Breathe Pilates | 10.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | n/r | 38 |
| =10 | The Gym Pod | 8.3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | n/r | 34 |
| =10 | Spirit Stretch | 8.3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | n/r | 19 |
| =10 | The Flow Studio | 8.3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 39 |
| =10 | Fit Titans | 8.3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | n/r | 0 |
| =10 | PURE360 | 8.3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 38 |
| =10 | Strength Clinic Academy | 8.3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | n/r | 4.2 |
| =10 | The Pilates Works | 8.3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17 |
| =17 | 24/7 Fitness | 6.7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/r | 40 |
| =17 | STRONG Pilates Singapore | 6.7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | n/r | 22 |
| 19 | GoFit | 5.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | n/r | 23 |
| 20 | Aflo Pilates | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2.3 |
Engine columns show listed citation counts. Where a business appeared under two hosts on the same engine, we checked the answers one by one, so no answer counts twice in this table. The panel contains 43 questions and 172 stored answers, none missing. Score: up to 25 points per engine, with full marks at 15 citations (how the score works). It is not a quality rating. ”=” marks a shared score; the order within a tie is not a difference in performance. Google rank is the organic position for “pilates singapore” (Ahrefs, 11 November 2026); n/r means not in the recorded results. DR is Ahrefs Domain Rating. Answers last updated 15 October to 14 November 2026. Source: e-Alchemists analysis of Ahrefs Brand Radar data, Singapore, November 2026.
Three findings
Deal sites and listicles take more than half the citations
Across the 15 most-cited domains on each of the four scored engines (478 citations), aggregators take 265 (55%) under our classification rules, and the gyms and studios themselves take 42 (9%). Government sites take 39 (8%), and social platforms and news media 130 (27%). No scored engine’s single most-cited domain is a fitness business.
Google’s first business shares 10th place in AI
The Flow Studio is the first business in Google’s organic results for “pilates singapore”. On the AI score it shares 8.3 points with six other businesses, a tie covering places 10 to 16, with 5 citations. Fitness First Singapore, first on both score and raw citations, is not in those organic results, and neither is Club Pilates, second on both. SG Pilates is the overlap: third on Google and part of a three-way tie for third in AI. Domain Rating is a weak guide here. SG Pilates has a DR of 2.1 and the same 15.0 score as Catalyst, whose DR is 54.
Copilot’s counts differ from the four-engine score
Only 6 of 20 businesses are cited on all four scored engines, and one has no citations at all. Microsoft Copilot (recorded, not scored) gives its joint-highest count to two gym chains and a deal site: Anytime Fitness, 24/7 Fitness and The Money Bees have 14 Copilot citations each. 24/7 Fitness is cited on only one of the four scored engines, so it sits at =17 on the score.
Who AI cites instead
ChatGPT’s single most-cited domain is ActiveSG Circle, the government sports portal (18 citations), followed by the directory gyms.sg (14) and Lookup.sg (13). Gemini cites the deal site DiveDeals most (11). Perplexity’s top source is the news site AsiaOne (18), with Honeycombers (14) and SingSaver (12) next. Google AI Overviews’ top domains are social platforms: Instagram (20), Facebook (16) and Reddit (14), alongside MoneySmart (16) and The Smart Local (14).
Price questions are common in this panel: 27 of the 43 ask what something costs or which gym is cheapest. Round-ups that compare many gyms are among the most-cited sources; this study did not measure why an engine picks one source over another.
Google vs AI in fitness
Google organic position 1
AI rank: =10
Highest AI score: 28.3 / 100
Google term: pilates singapore. AI ranks apply only within this panel; tied scores share their rank.
View data: Google vs AI in fitness
| ”pilates singapore”, Google top 3 | AI top 3, by composite score | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Flow Studio | Fitness First Singapore |
| 2 | ActiveSG Circle (government) | Club Pilates Singapore |
| 3 | SG Pilates | =3 Lab Studios, SG Pilates, Catalyst |
SG Pilates is the one business in both lists: third on Google and joint third in AI with Lab Studios and Catalyst. The second head term shows a wider gap. In Ahrefs’ 7 November 2026 snapshot for “gym singapore”, PURE360 is the first business in the organic results, and in AI it sits in the seven-way tie at =10.
Technical readiness
Counts are out of the businesses we could assess:
- 4 of 20 sites put some barrier in front of AI crawlers: a bot-challenge page, an error to the GPTBot user-agent, or a robots.txt rule.
- 5 of 20 publish an llms.txt file.
- 15 of 19 have structured data (JSON-LD) on the homepage.
- 6 of 19 mark themselves up as a local business.
None bars an AI search crawler from its homepage in robots.txt. One homepage check on 14 November 2026; these counts say nothing about why a given business was or was not cited.
The fitness playbook
Each move below is a test to run and track, not a result this study measured.
→ Check the round-ups that get cited. MoneySmart, The Smart Local, Honeycombers and the deal sites are among the most-cited domains here. See whether you appear in their “cheapest gyms” and “best Pilates studios” lists and whether your details are right.
→ Test a public price page. 27 of the 43 questions are about cost. A clear, crawlable price page is worth testing.
→ Keep social profiles current. Instagram is the single most-cited domain on Google AI Overviews in this panel. Keep your profile’s location, class types and pricing up to date.
→ Check crawler access properly. Four of the 20 sites put up some barrier. Use your server logs and each AI search crawler’s published verification method to confirm it gets through. Admitting training crawlers such as GPTBot is a separate decision.
How this was measured
We took every fitness question (Pilates, yoga, gym, personal trainer, spin, HIIT, reformer, CrossFit) with a Singapore or buying modifier in Ahrefs Brand Radar’s Singapore database, 43 in all, and counted the citations to each business’s website in the 172 stored answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews (AI Mode and Copilot recorded, not scored). Measured, not modelled, in November 2026. Full method: How we measured this.
The 43 questions in the panel
- How much is a gym membership per month in Singapore?
- What is the cheapest gym in Singapore?
- Are there any free gyms in Singapore?
- What is the cheapest gym to be a member of?
- Where is the cheapest gym in Singapore?
- What is the cheapest gym group?
- Is there a free gym in Singapore?
- How much does Pilates cost in Singapore?
- Which gym is the cheapest in Singapore?
- Where are the ActiveSG gyms in Singapore?
- Which Pilates is best for beginners?
- Which is the cheapest gym membership in Singapore?
- Are there gyms open 24 hours in Singapore?
- How much does a Pilates class cost in Singapore?
- How much is STRONG Pilates Singapore?
- What kind of yoga is best for beginners?
- How much does yoga cost in Singapore?
- How much does a pilates class cost in Singapore?
- Is yoga popular in Singapore?
- What is the cheapest gym membership in Singapore?
- What is the cheapest gym to join?
- What is gym tonic in Singapore?
- Are ActiveSG gyms free in Singapore?
- Which gym is best in Singapore?
- Which gym is good in Singapore?
- How many Gym Pods are there in Singapore?
- Which type of yoga is best for beginners?
- Which gym membership is the cheapest?
- How much does a gym membership cost in Singapore?
- How much is spin class in Singapore?
- How much is Club Pilates in Singapore?
- How much is club pilates in Singapore?
- How much is Club Pilates Singapore?
- Which gym to join in Singapore?
- What is the most expensive gym in Singapore?
- What is the most expensive gym membership in Singapore?
- Is there a private gym in Singapore?
- How much is fitness first gym membership in Singapore?
- How much is a pilates class in Singapore?
- How much is a Pilates class in Singapore?
- Why is Pilates so expensive in Singapore?
- Is a personal trainer worth it in Singapore?
- How much does a personal trainer cost in Singapore?
Seven questions name a business (Club Pilates three times, Fitness First, STRONG Pilates, Gym Tonic and The Gym Pod), so those businesses’ counts partly reflect branded questions.
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