The Most Recommended Plumbers in New York — Measured on ChatGPT
ChatGPT is becoming the first stop for New York homeowners choosing a plumber. To find out who it actually sends people to, we ran 4 checks in August 2026 — 4 question styles, a cohort of 59 area companies.
The answers concentrated on a handful of names: 19 in total, with A&E NYC Plumbing and RR Plumbing Roto-Rooter named in all 4 checks apiece. That leaves 40 New York-area companies ChatGPT never mentioned at all.
The next group is NYC Plumbing Services /Mentor Mechanical — named in 3 of 4 checks. 2 more companies came up less often and are listed below.
There is no number one here on purpose. Ask ChatGPT the same question twice and the answer can change, so we publish how many of the 4 checks named each company instead of a place that would move if we asked again. Companies named in only one check aren't listed.
For scale: of the 26 metros in this edition, New York's cohort of 59 plumbers was the 23rd largest.
Only 19 of 59
New York plumbers ever appear in the answers, a 32% rate. The companies below are the ones ChatGPT names:
Rankings are measured and cannot be purchased — sponsored blocks are labeled advertising and sit outside the ranked list.
Ask ChatGPT the same question twice and the answer can change. So we do not crown a number one. We publish how many of the 4 checks named each company. Companies named in more checks are the ones ChatGPT keeps coming back to. Companies named in only one check are not listed: a single mention does not repeat reliably.
Named in all 4 checks
2 companies, listed alphabetically — they scored the same, so nothing here puts one above another.
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A&E NYC Plumbing
New York, NY · Recommended in 4 of 4 AI checks · 5.0★ (144 Google reviews)
Named in every one of the 4 checks: A&E NYC Plumbing. Its Google profile shows 5.0 stars from 144 reviews.
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RR Plumbing Roto-Rooter
New York, NY · Recommended in 4 of 4 AI checks · 4.8★ (1,693 Google reviews)
Named in every one of the 4 checks, RR Plumbing Roto-Rooter is one of the New York companies ChatGPT keeps coming back to. Its Google profile shows 4.8 stars from 1,693 reviews.
Named in 3 of 4 checks
One company, listed below.
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NYC Plumbing Services /Mentor Mechanical
New York, NY · Recommended in 3 of 4 AI checks · 5.0★ (184 Google reviews)
NYC Plumbing Services /Mentor Mechanical earned its place by showing up in 3 of the 4 checks. Its Google profile shows 5.0 stars from 184 reviews.
Named in 2 of 4 checks
2 companies, listed alphabetically — they scored the same, so nothing here puts one above another.
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24 Hr. Emergency Plumbing & Hot Water Heater
Recommended in 2 of 4 AI checks
24 Hr. Emergency Plumbing & Hot Water Heater surfaced in 2 of the 4 checks when we asked.
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Plumbing and Heating
New York, NY · Recommended in 2 of 4 AI checks · 5.0★ (1 Google reviews)
Plumbing and Heating earned its place by showing up in 2 of the 4 checks. Google reviewers back it up: 5.0 stars over 1 reviews.
5 more companies were named in exactly one of the 4 checks. A single mention comes back less than half the time when we ask again, so they are measured but not published.
4 checks, run August 2026. This board is measured, never sold; no company can pay to be listed. Grouping follows how often ChatGPT named each one, and names inside a group are alphabetical.
Every question we put to ChatGPT
We asked these word-for-word, then recorded which companies came back in the answers:
- “Who is the best plumber in New York, New York?”
- “I have a plumbing emergency in New York, New York. Which plumber should I call?”
- “What is the most recommended plumbing company in New York, New York?”
- “Who should I hire to replace a water heater in New York, New York?”
The New York measurement at a glance
- The listed companies average 5.0 stars on Google, with 2,022 reviews between them.
- Compared with the edition-wide average (28%), New York's 32% sits above the line.
- A&E NYC Plumbing and RR Plumbing Roto-Rooter were named in 4 of 4 checks — the closest thing New York has to a consensus answer.
- 5 of the 19 companies ChatGPT named came up in more than one check. The other 5 surfaced once and aren't listed — a single mention doesn't hold up on a re-ask.
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The New York board, explained
How short is the New York list, really?
The August 2026 answer is 19. We verified 59 companies around New York and ran 4 checks; 32% of the cohort ever got a mention.
Who does ChatGPT name most often in New York?
No single answer. A&E NYC Plumbing and RR Plumbing Roto-Rooter each came up in every one of the 4 checks, which is as far as 4 checks can tell them apart.
How is the order on this page decided?
Because a number one wouldn't hold. Ask ChatGPT the same question again and the top name often changes, while the number of checks that named a company stays about the same. So we publish the count: companies named in the same number of the 4 checks are grouped together and listed alphabetically, because nothing in the measurement separates them.
What questions were behind the New York checks?
Real homeowner phrasings, asked verbatim — one example: "I have a plumbing emergency in New York, New York. Which plumber should I call?". Each answer's named companies were tallied, and that tally is the whole list.
Do companies pay you to be listed here?
They can't. Measured, never sold is the standing rule: being named by ChatGPT in our checks is the only path onto the board. Sponsored blocks are marked as advertising and never enter the measured list.
Why isn't my company on the New York list?
Either ChatGPT never named it in our August 2026 checks, or it came up in only one of them — and one mention isn't steady enough to publish. Neither says anything about the quality of the work, only that homeowners who ask AI are being sent elsewhere.
New to New York? These plumbers are just getting started.
Everything above this line was measured. The list on this page comes from asking AI assistants real questions and counting who they named — no one can buy their way onto it.
This section is different, and we want to be plain about it. The businesses below are brand new. They have not been measured, they have no rank and no score, and they are not part of the list above. They are here because they asked to be, we checked that they are real, and a business that opened last month has no way to show up in a ranking built on history. Nobody paid for a spot here — it is free, and it is not an endorsement.
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Tell us who you are and we'll add you to this section — free. It is not a ranking and it will never say you are ranked, because you are not: you are new. When we re-run the benchmark, a real spot on the list above is something you earn, not something we hand out.
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