In this tuition panel, AI answers mostly link to sources other than the centres. Tutor-matching agencies, listicles and parent guides take 319 of the 445 citations (72%) pooled across the four scored engines’ top-15 domain lists. This is AI search for tuition centres in Singapore, as measured in November 2026, across 34 questions per engine. The highest composite citation score is 41.7 out of 100, and Club Math, the first centre in Google’s results for “tuition centre singapore”, is not cited at all: it shares rank =17 with three other centres.
The ranking: 20 tuition centres by AI visibility
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ChatGPT: 0 · Gemini: 5 · Perplexity: 3 · Google AI Overviews: 12
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ChatGPT: 0 · Gemini: 3 · Perplexity: 8 · Google AI Overviews: 8
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ChatGPT: 3 · Gemini: 3 · Perplexity: 2 · Google AI Overviews: 6
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ChatGPT: 4 · Gemini: 2 · Perplexity: 0 · Google AI Overviews: 6
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ChatGPT: 3 · Gemini: 2 · Perplexity: 4 · Google AI Overviews: 1
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ChatGPT: 8 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 0 · Google AI Overviews: 1
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ChatGPT: 0 · Gemini: 4 · Perplexity: 1 · Google AI Overviews: 3
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ChatGPT: 4 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 1 · Google AI Overviews: 2
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ChatGPT: 1 · Gemini: 2 · Perplexity: 0 · Google AI Overviews: 3
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ChatGPT: 1 · Gemini: 1 · Perplexity: 1 · Google AI Overviews: 3
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ChatGPT: 0 · Gemini: 1 · Perplexity: 1 · Google AI Overviews: 4
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ChatGPT: 5 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 0 · Google AI Overviews: 0
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ChatGPT: 0 · Gemini: 1 · Perplexity: 3 · Google AI Overviews: 0
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ChatGPT: 1 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 0 · Google AI Overviews: 1
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ChatGPT: 0 · Gemini: 1 · Perplexity: 0 · Google AI Overviews: 0
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ChatGPT: 0 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 0 · Google AI Overviews: 1
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ChatGPT: 0 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 0 · Google AI Overviews: 0
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ChatGPT: 0 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 0 · Google AI Overviews: 0
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ChatGPT: 0 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 0 · Google AI Overviews: 0
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 | Ancourage Academy | 41.7 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 12 | - | 11 |
| 2 | EduFirst Learning Centre | 39.6 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | - | 23 |
| 3 | Geniebook | 29.2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | - | 46 |
| 4 | The Learning Lab | 25.0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | - | 42 |
| 5 | Ottodot | 20.8 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | 12 |
| 6 | AGrader Learning Centre | 18.8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | 39 |
| 7 | Creative Campus | 16.7 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | - | 20 |
| 8 | Zenith Education Studio | 14.6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 25 |
| =9 | F9 to A1 Academy | 12.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | - | 3.6 |
| =9 | Tim Gan Math | 12.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 26 |
| =9 | Indigo Education Group | 12.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | - | 39 |
| 12 | Arche Academy | 10.4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 4.3 |
| 13 | Sophia Education | 8.3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 53 |
| 14 | Paradigm (mathtutor.com.sg) | 4.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | 17 |
| =15 | The Math Lab | 2.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 18 |
| =15 | Epsilon Education | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| =17 | The Science Academy | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 30 |
| =17 | Club Math | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| =17 | Coco Education | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 17 |
| =17 | The Nuggets Academy | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14 |
Engine columns show listed citation counts, summed across host variants. One answer can contribute more than once. The panel contains 34 questions and 135 stored answers; ChatGPT has no stored answer for one question, which counts as zero. Score: up to 25 points per engine, with full marks at 12 citations (how the score works). It is not a quality rating. ”=” marks a shared score; rows inside a tie are in display order only. Google rank is the organic position for “tuition centre singapore” (Ahrefs, 6 October 2026); ”-” means not in the recorded results. DR is Ahrefs Domain Rating. ChatGPT answers last updated 23 August to 13 November 2026. Source: e-Alchemists analysis of Ahrefs Brand Radar data, Singapore, November 2026.
Original ranking data and notes
| Rank | Business | Score (0–100) | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancourage Academy | 41.7 | |
| 2 | EduFirst Learning Centre | 39.6 | |
| 3 | Geniebook | 29.2 | |
| 4 | The Learning Lab | 25 | |
| 5 | Ottodot | 20.8 | |
| 6 | AGrader Learning Centre | 18.8 | |
| 7 | Creative Campus | 16.7 | |
| 8 | Zenith Education Studio | 14.6 | |
| =9 | F9 to A1 Academy | 12.5 | |
| =9 | Tim Gan Math | 12.5 | |
| =9 | Indigo Education Group | 12.5 | |
| 12 | Arche Academy | 10.4 | |
| 13 | Sophia Education | 8.3 | |
| 14 | Paradigm (mathtutor.com.sg) | 4.2 | |
| =15 | The Math Lab | 2.1 | |
| =15 | Epsilon Education | 2.1 | |
| =17 | The Science Academy; Club Math; Coco Education; The Nuggets Academy | Not cited in this panel | 0.0 |
Linked citations only. Equal scores share a rank and equal-length bars.
Source: e-Alchemists analysis of Ahrefs Brand Radar data, Singapore, November 2026.
The top two are close. Ancourage Academy has 20 citations across the four scored engines and EduFirst Learning Centre 19, a one-citation gap that does not separate them. Geniebook follows with 14.
Three findings
Google’s leaders and AI’s leaders are different centres
Club Math is the top centre for “tuition centre singapore”, second only to an Instagram post, with a “Top 10 Primary Maths Tuition Centre” listicle. It is not cited on any of the four scored engines. Ancourage Academy, EduFirst Learning Centre and Geniebook, the leading band by citations (20, 19 and 14), were all selected on AI citations alone; none of them is in Google’s recorded top 10 for either head term. Indigo Education Group, first in Google’s results for “math tuition singapore” (13 October 2026 snapshot), shares =9 with two other centres.
Agencies and listicles outnumber the centres
The four scored engines’ top-15 domain lists hold 445 citations. Tutor-matching agencies, listicles and parent guides take 319 of them (72%); tuition centres’ own sites take 89 (20%). No tuition centre is the most-cited site on any of the four engines, alone or jointly. ChatGPT is the most lopsided, with 109 of its 134 listed citations (81%) going to this group. 4 of the 20 centres are not cited on any scored engine, and all four came in through Google’s results.
Organic traffic and citations do not line up
Geniebook has the panel’s largest estimated organic traffic, 60,400 visits a month, and a Domain Rating of 46; it places 3rd. Sophia Education has the highest Domain Rating, 53, and places 13th. Zenith Education Studio has 31,993 monthly visits and places 8th. Ancourage Academy has the highest composite score with a Domain Rating of 11. The engines also disagree with each other: AGrader is cited 8 times on ChatGPT and once on the other three engines combined, while Ancourage is cited 12 times on Google AI Overviews and never on ChatGPT.
Who AI cites instead
View data: Who AI cites instead
| Engine | Most-cited sites outside the 20 (citations, host variants added) |
|---|---|
| ChatGPT | sgdsa.com (18), tutorbee.sg (16), bestthingreview.com (13), tutorcity.sg (13), morebetter.sg (11) |
| Gemini | tutorbee.sg (8), smiletutor.sg (6), tutorly.sg (4), singaporetuitionteachers.com (4) |
| Perplexity | singaporetuitionteachers.com (12), sassymamasg.com (11), sgdsa.com (11), terris.sg (10), sunnycitykids.com (10) |
| Google AI Overviews | smiletutor.sg (18), singaporetuitionteachers.com (17), tutorly.sg (10), smartwealth.sg (8) |
| Microsoft Copilot | tuitionlah.com (8), terris.sg (7), eduprime.sg (6), tutorcircle.sg (6) |
Home-tuition agencies such as SmileTutor, Singapore Tuition Teachers and TutorBee appear on every engine. This report counts them with the aggregators because they match families to freelance tutors, and that classing drives most of the 72%. A web-design agency also appears: terris.sg, whose blog publishes tuition listicles, is cited 10 times on Perplexity and 7 on Copilot, and we count it as an aggregator under our classification rules. Social platforms take 18 of the 445 top-15 citations (4%); news and government sites take none.
Google vs AI in tuition
Google organic position 2
AI rank: =17
Highest AI score: 41.7 / 100
Google term: tuition centre singapore. AI ranks apply only within this panel; tied scores share their rank.
View data: Google vs AI in tuition
| Google top 3 for “tuition centre singapore” (6 Oct 2026) | AI rank | AI composite top 3 | Google rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| instagram.com (social post) | not a centre | Ancourage Academy | not in recorded results |
| Club Math | =17 (not cited) | EduFirst Learning Centre | not in recorded results |
| skoolopedia.com (directory) | not a centre | Geniebook | not in recorded results |
Technical readiness
View data: Technical readiness
| Check (20 centres) | Count |
|---|---|
| Put a barrier in front of AI crawlers (robots.txt block, GPTBot refused, or homepage refused) | 3 of 20 |
| Block any of seven AI crawlers in robots.txt | 0 of 20 |
| Publish an llms.txt file | 6 of 20 |
| Have LocalBusiness-type structured data on the homepage | 7 of 20 |
All three barriers come from servers refusing a request that identifies itself as GPTBot, not from robots.txt rules; no robots.txt bars an AI search crawler from the homepage. At least 18 of 20 homepages carry some JSON-LD and 5 of 20 carry FAQ markup. Counts only, from one homepage check on 14 November 2026.
The tuition playbook
Each move below is a test to run and track, not a result this study measured.
→ Check the lists the engines cite. Listicles and guides such as sgdsa.com, morebetter.sg, bestthingreview.com and Sassy Mama sit among the engines’ most-cited sites. Check that relevant listings describe your centre accurately.
→ Test a public fee page. 15 of the 34 questions in this panel ask about price, rates or cost. A page with accurate fees is worth testing.
→ Review crawler refusals with care. 3 of 20 centres refuse a request that names GPTBot, a training crawler; allowing it is a policy choice. For AI search, what matters is access for the search crawlers (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot): verify it with each operator’s published method and your server logs before changing firewall rules.
→ Track each engine on its own. AGrader’s citations come almost entirely from ChatGPT and Ancourage’s mostly from Google AI Overviews. One engine’s result says little about the others.
How this was measured
The e-Alchemists team took every tuition question with buying or local intent in Ahrefs Brand Radar’s Singapore prompt database (34, listed below) and counted the citations to each centre’s website in the stored answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews (AI Mode and Copilot recorded, not scored). Tutor-matching agencies were tracked as sources, not ranked. One or two citations either way is not meaningful. Measured, not modelled. Full method: How we measured this.
The 34 questions in this panel
- Which tutor is best for maths?
- Which is the best tuition in Singapore?
- Why is tuition so expensive in Singapore?
- Which is the best home tuition agency in Singapore?
- How much is Kumon Singapore tuition?
- How much is tuition per hour in Singapore?
- How much is private tuition for secondary school in Singapore?
- Which tuition centre is the best in Singapore?
- Which online tuition is best in Singapore?
- Which online tuition is best?
- What are the typical online tuition rates in Singapore?
- What is the best English tuition in Singapore?
- What is the cheapest online tuition?
- Which English tuition is best?
- Which science tuition is best?
- How much is primary school tuition in Singapore?
- Is home tuition legal in Singapore?
- How much is secondary school tuition in Singapore?
- How much is home tuition in Singapore?
- What is the top tuition centre in Singapore?
- What is the best math tuition in Singapore?
- Which math tuition is best?
- How much does a private tutor cost in Singapore?
- How much do tuition teachers charge in Singapore?
- What is the top tuition agency in Singapore?
- Which is the best PSLE math tuition in Singapore?
- Which home tuition is best?
- How much is English tuition for Primary 1 Singapore?
- How much is an English tutor in Singapore?
- How much does tuition cost in Singapore?
- What is the best tuition in Singapore?
- What is the best Chinese tuition in Singapore?
- Which is the best online tuition in Singapore?
- How much does private tuition cost in Singapore?
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