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Q2 2026 · published April 30 · N = 2,400 queries

The K-Beauty
Buyability Index.

The first cross-platform benchmark for AI commerce. We scanned 2,400 commercial queries across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot — and verified every recommended product against its canonical U.S.-facing PDP. This is what we found.

Median Buyability
64%
of agent-recommended K-beauty products are purchasable
Top Quartile
81%
leaders set the achievable ceiling — Beauty of Joseon, COSRX
Bottom Quartile
47%
more than half of recommended impressions break
Recoverable revenue
$312M
across the K-beauty category in the U.S., last 12 months
Brand-level scoring

K-Beauty leaderboard.

Buyability scores across the 12 most-recommended Korean beauty brands in U.S. AI shopping. Per-platform breakdowns highlight where each brand wins or loses execution.

#
Brand
ChatGPT
Gemini
Claude
Perplexity
Copilot
Score
01
Beauty of Joseon
86
82
79
81
77
81%
02
COSRX
80
78
73
76
73
76%
03
Glow Recipe
76
74
68
72
69
72%
04
Anua
70
68
67
68
66
68%
05
Innisfree
67
65
63
66
64
65%
06
Laneige
66
64
62
65
63
64%
07
Sulwhasoo
63
61
59
60
58
60%
08
Skin1004
61
58
55
59
56
58%
09
Peach & Lily
58
54
52
55
53
54%
10
Mixsoon
55
52
49
53
51
52%
11
Then I Met You
50
47
44
48
46
47%
12
Belif
48
45
42
46
43
45%

Scoring methodology: queries weighted by U.S. AI shopping volume (Bain, March 2026 benchmark). Per-platform scores reflect successful checkout-path validation against the canonical U.S.-facing PDP. See full methodology.

Failure modes

Where the breakage happens.

Across the bottom-half cohort, broken-impression rates concentrate in two failure modes: inventory drift and price disagreement across multi-listing footprints.

01 / Inventory

Out of stock

Most common in seasonal SKUs and limited Olive Young exclusives that AI agents continue to recommend after sell-through.

Share of failures · 31%
02 / Pricing

Price disagreement

Same SKU sold at four different prices across YesStyle, Soko Glam, Sephora.com, and Amazon — agents select inconsistent canonicals.

Share of failures · 27%
03 / Page

PDP load / schema

Pages that fail Open Graph or schema.org validation are silently down-ranked by agent retrievers — invisible to most brand teams.

Share of failures · 17%
04 / Variant

Variant gap

Hangul-only SKUs surface in U.S. results because agents see Korean catalog data without market-availability gating.

Share of failures · 15%
05 / Fulfillment

No U.S. shipping

Checkout cannot complete to a U.S. address; the link routes to a grey-market reseller.

Share of failures · 10%
Cross-platform truth

No surface tells the same story.

Buyability varies meaningfully by AI surface. Brands optimizing for a single platform are leaving the equivalent of one full surface's worth of conversion on the table.

ChatGPT
68%
Highest median; strongest schema fidelity
Gemini
63%
Best price-truth via Google Shopping graph
Claude
59%
Conservative recall but high accuracy when surfaced
Perplexity
62%
High intent traffic, mixed inventory truth
Copilot
60%
Bing Shopping legacy data depresses freshness
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