GOAT Group vs Costco

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Costco leads in AI visibility (89 vs 33)

GOAT Group

EmergingE-commerce

General

GOAT Group operates the world's leading sneaker and streetwear resale platforms—GOAT, Flight Club, and Grailed—with 50M+ customers, $2B+ GMV, and a $3.7B valuation.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D33
Category Rank
#787 of 1158
AI Consensus
52%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
42
Perplexity
41
Gemini
29

About

GOAT Group is the parent company of the world's most comprehensive sneaker and streetwear resale ecosystem, operating the GOAT app (digital resale marketplace), Flight Club (the iconic New York sneaker consignment retailer that went digital), and Grailed (the premium men's fashion resale platform). Founded in 2015 by Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano to solve the rampant counterfeit problem in sneaker resale, GOAT's authentication-first approach—verifying every sneaker sold through trained authenticators—built the trust that drove its growth to dominance in the premium resale market.

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Costco

LeaderConsumer Retail

Warehouse Retail

NASDAQ: COST warehouse club at $249.6B FY2024 revenue with 73.4M cardholders and $50B+ Kirkland Signature; 90%+ renewal rate with $65/$130 membership fee competing with Sam's Club for warehouse retail.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A89
Category Rank
#1 of 1
AI Consensus
46%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
95
Perplexity
80
Gemini
80

About

Costco Wholesale Corporation is an Issaquah, Washington-based membership warehouse club — listed on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: COST) — operating 897 warehouse locations globally (as of mid-2025) across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Australia, Spain, France, China, and Iceland, providing paid members (73.4 million cardholders representing 136.8 million authorized users as of fiscal year end 2024) with bulk merchandise, groceries, electronics, appliances, tires, optical services, pharmacy, and the Kirkland Signature private label brand at prices consistently below traditional retail channels. Costco generated $249.6 billion in total revenue in fiscal year 2024 (ended September 2024, +5% year-over-year), with membership fee revenue of $4.83 billion providing the financial foundation that enables Costco's famously low product margins.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

33
Overall Score
89
#787
Category Rank
#1
52
AI Consensus
46
up
Trend
stable
42
ChatGPT
95
41
Perplexity
80
29
Gemini
80
27
Claude
97
44
Grok
97

Capabilities & Ecosystem

Capabilities

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