Which Aesthetic Clinics in Bali Do ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini Name?

I asked ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini the same 12 questions about aesthetic clinics in Bali on 12 and 13 October 2026. They named 46 clinics in 36 answers. Only 8 came up on all three. ChatGPT kept coming back to Elea Skin Clinic. Gemini kept coming back to Puriva Clinic.

The Aesthetic Clinics in Bali the Assistants Named Most

One thing you should know before the numbers. I asked each question once, in each assistant. So this tells you who got named on those two nights, not who is better or who gets named next time. Keep that in mind for everything below, and I won't repeat it in every paragraph.

How I counted, so you can check me: a clinic counts once per answer, whether it was the first pick or the seventh line of a list. A name that only showed up in a source link doesn't count.

Here are the twelve clinics named in at least 5 of the 36 answers. Total is out of 36. Each assistant's column is out of its own 12:

Clinic	Area	Total	ChatGPT	Perplexity	Gemini
Body Lab	Seminyak	15	2	6	7
Rejuvie Aesthetic & Dermatology	Kuta and Sanur	15	4	4	7
Puriva Clinic	Kuta	14	0	2	12
Elea Skin Clinic	Denpasar	13	10	1	2
Cocoon Medical Spa	Legian, Canggu and Ubud	11	2	4	5
Lumina Aesthetics Clinic	Legian	11	2	2	7
SŌMA Aesthetics & Longevity Club	Uluwatu	11	0	4	7
BIMC Hospital / BIMC CosMedic	Kuta and Nusa Dua	7	4	1	2
Bali Aesthetic Centre	Denpasar	6	6	0	0
Healthy Look Aesthetic	Ubud	6	1	4	1
Braia Klinik Spesialis	Denpasar	5	2	3	0
Skin Studio	Umalas	5	0	5	0

If you run a clinic, this is the part you won't expect: the three assistants barely agree.

Only eight clinics were named by all three. Body Lab, Rejuvie, Elea, Cocoon, Lumina, BIMC, Healthy Look and Radiance Bali. And Radiance only just made it, with one mention from each.

And each assistant had a favourite you'd hardly hear about from the other two.

Gemini named Puriva Clinic in all 12 of its answers. Botox, lasers, finding a dermatologist, it didn't matter. ChatGPT didn't name Puriva once.

ChatGPT named Elea Skin Clinic in 10 of its 12 answers and put it at the top in 8 of them, often as "my first pick". Perplexity named Elea once. That one surprised me. It might surprise you too.

Perplexity had its own regular: Skin Studio in Umalas, named in 5 answers and listed first in 3. ChatGPT and Gemini never mentioned it.

The variety doesn't go the way you'd guess, either. ChatGPT named 29 different clinics across its 12 answers, Perplexity 27, Gemini only 19. Gemini gave you about as many names per answer as the other two. It just kept giving you the same ones. Of the 46 clinics in total, 25 were named by one assistant only.

So picture two people asking the same question, one in ChatGPT and one in Gemini, both planning to book something next week, both trusting that what they got back is the whole picture of aesthetic clinics in Bali. They walk away with different shortlists. And both lists look complete.

Would a second run shuffle the names again? Maybe. I don't know yet, and I'd rather tell you that than guess. So I'll ask the same 12 questions again in April 2027 and compare.

What Changes by Question: Botox, Skin Boosters, Laser and Dermatologists

The 12 questions fall into seven groups: general (1), visitors and expats (3), safety and licensing (2), skin boosters and Profhilo (2), laser for pigmentation and acne scars (2), finding a dermatologist (1) and the cost of anti-wrinkle injections (1).

Change the group and you change the names. Same assistant, same night, a different list.

Start with Body Lab, because it's the clearest case you'll see in the whole sample. It was in all 3 general answers and 6 of the 9 visitor answers. In the 6 laser answers and the 3 dermatologist answers? Zero. Cocoon Medical Spa does the same, with 5 of its 11 mentions from the visitor questions. Both are in the tourist belt, and both show up most when the person asking is on holiday or new to Bali.

Ask about laser, though, and Rejuvie runs the other way. None of the 3 general answers named it. But it came up in 4 of the 6 laser answers, 4 of the 6 safety answers and all 3 answers about the cost of anti-wrinkle injections. Elea leans on laser too, with 4 of 6. And Braia Klinik Spesialis in Denpasar was named in 4 laser answers and one dermatologist answer, then nowhere in the other 27.

Ask for a dermatologist and the list changes completely. The assistants switched to hospitals and individual doctors: two private dermatology practices, BIMC, Siloam, BaliMed, Bali International Hospital, the dermatology department at RSUP Prof. Ngoerah and the skin clinic at RSAD Udayana. Nine of those names appear nowhere else in the 36 answers.

The safety questions gave the widest spread: 22 different names across 6 answers. Ask whether fillers are safe in Bali, or how to check a clinic's licence, and you get longer lists that overlap less, which is fair enough when you think about it, because a careful answer to a safety question should give you more than one place to check.

None of this tells you which clinic does a treatment well. I can't judge that from here. Neither can you.

What it does show is which names an assistant connects with which kind of question. My guess (and it is a guess) is that the connection follows what's been written about each clinic: its treatment pages, its guide entries, reviews that mention the treatment by name. So a clinic known online for one thing can go missing from answers about something else it also offers.

How I Asked the Questions

I wrote the 12 questions the way you'd type them as a patient, long and specific, and locked them before I opened any assistant. Here they are, exactly as I asked them. None of them names a clinic.

#	Question	Group
1	I'm looking for a good aesthetic clinic in Bali for things like botox, fillers and skin treatments. Which clinics are the best and most trusted?	General
2	I'm an expat living in Bali and want to start getting botox regularly. Where do other expats go, and which clinics would you recommend?	Visitors and expats
3	I'm on holiday in Bali for two weeks and thinking of getting botox while I'm here. Which clinics are good, and is there anything I should watch out for?	Visitors and expats
4	I want an aesthetic clinic in Bali where the doctor speaks good English and explains everything properly. Can you recommend some?	Visitors and expats
5	Is it safe to get fillers in Bali? I've heard mixed things. Where should I go to make sure it's done properly by a qualified doctor?	Safety and licensing
6	How can I check that an aesthetic clinic in Bali is licensed and safe before I book? Which clinics meet that standard?	Safety and licensing
7	I'd like to try a skin booster treatment in Bali for hydration and glow. Which clinics offer it, and which ones are good?	Skin boosters and Profhilo
8	Where can I get Profhilo in Bali? Which clinic would you recommend, and roughly what does it cost?	Skin boosters and Profhilo
9	I have pigmentation and sun spots on my face. Which clinics in Bali do good laser treatment for that?	Laser
10	I have acne scars and want laser treatment in Bali. Which clinics are good for acne scars, and what kind of laser should I ask for?	Laser
11	I need a good dermatologist in Bali to look at my skin. Which dermatologists or skin clinics would you recommend?	Dermatologist
12	How much do anti-wrinkle injections cost in Bali, and which clinic would you recommend for a natural look?	Anti-wrinkle cost

Want to see how your own clinic does? Ask these yourself, in a private window, a few times over, and count.

I used the Android apps of ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini on a tablet in Pecatu, in the south of Bali, with no VPN. Each app was in private mode, so my own history couldn't steer the answers: a temporary chat with no memory or custom instructions in ChatGPT, Incognito in Perplexity on its free default model, and a temporary chat in Gemini. ChatGPT and Perplexity ran on the night of 12 October, Gemini in the early hours of 13 October.

Every question was asked once. I didn't answer any follow-up questions the assistants asked back. Every answer is saved word for word, with a screenshot of its first screen.

A clinic counted when an answer put it forward as an option for you, in a list, a table, a "best for" row or a sentence. Names that only appeared in a source link didn't count, and neither did directories, regulators or product brands. No assistant named a clinic just to warn against it. One Perplexity answer (whether fillers are safe in Bali) named no clinic at all, so Perplexity's names come from 11 answers.

Now the limits, once and plainly, so you can weigh everything above. One run can't tell you how stable a name is. From Ubud, in Indonesian, on a desktop or signed in to a normal account, the answers might have looked different. This is what came back to me, on those two nights, on that tablet.

Where the Assistants Get Their Clinic Names

ChatGPT and Perplexity show you the pages behind an answer. Tap a source and you see it. And they kept citing the same handful of Bali guides. Here's how many of their 24 answers cited each one, counting a site once per answer:

Guide or directory	Cited in (of 24)
Best Aesthetics Bali	19
Honeycombers, "13 Best Medical Spas in Bali 2026"	9
Fresha (booking directory)	8
Bali Done Right	6
MediJump	6
WhatClinic	5
Bali Buddies	5

Gemini showed me no sources. None. So where its names came from, I can't tell you, and neither can its answers.

Now put the guides next to the answers. Honeycombers' list of 13 clinics (written by someone who says she visited all of them) includes Healthy Look, Lumina, Skin Studio, SŌMA, Body Lab, Puriva, Cocoon and Rejuvie. Perplexity cited it in 8 of its 12 answers. And Skin Studio, the clinic only Perplexity named, is third on that list.

I can't prove the guide caused the mention. But you can see the match for yourself.

Bali isn't alone in this. Yext looked at 6.8 million AI citations from July and August 2025, and in its healthcare sample 52.6% of the citations came from directories, not the providers' own websites (Yext, October 2025). That's American data, so I'd take it as a pattern and no more.

Google Maps Shows a Different List

On 12 October I ran the treatment searches in the Google Maps app too, on the same tablet, in Incognito. Maps searches wherever your map is pointing, so from Pecatu I got a southern list first. Then, without moving the tablet, I did what you'd do on your phone: dragged the map over central Bali (Canggu to Denpasar) and tapped "Search this area".

For "botox bali", the two lists shared just three clinics: Lumina Aesthetics Clinic, Body Lab and Cocoon Medical Spa. Around my tablet, the top spots went to clinics a few kilometres away in Uluwatu and Jimbaran. Over central Bali, a clinic in Canggu came first and Bali Aesthetic Centre in Denpasar second.

Notice something? Those three clinics on both Maps lists were also three of the assistants' most named. My guess is that some of the same signals feed both. This data can't prove it. Puriva Clinic, Gemini's regular, came first on Maps for "profhilo bali" in both views, and Elea came second over central Bali.

But don't mix the two up, because they're doing different jobs for you. Maps ranks places near a point on a map. An assistant writes an answer from what it has read. And in these 36 answers, a clinic's area didn't obviously decide who got named.

What the Answers Told People to Check

The two safety questions got the most careful answers of the lot. If you're the patient, these are the three checks ChatGPT and Perplexity both gave you, each in its own words:

• The clinic's licence. ChatGPT pointed to the Ministry of Health's Data Fasyankes Online, Perplexity to the SATUSEHAT facility register. Both said to match the registered name and address.
• The doctor. Get the treating doctor's full name, STR registration and SIP practice permit. Perplexity named the Konsil Kesehatan Indonesia (KKI) and the SATUSEHAT SDMK service for checking them.
• The product. ChatGPT pointed to BPOM's product database. Perplexity asked for the exact product and its Indonesian approval, and to see the sealed pack and batch number.

Both also said ratings and review counts aren't evidence of safety. I agree. Perplexity went further: if a clinic won't name the doctor or the product, walk away.

One answer stood out. Asked which clinics meet that standard, Perplexity picked Healthy Look Aesthetic in Ubud as "the clearest candidate I could assess", because its website publishes a certificate number and names its doctors with their registration numbers. Perplexity was careful to say these were the clinic's own published claims, for the patient to verify. I haven't verified them either. This post doesn't vouch for any clinic.

What This Means If You Run a Clinic

Do you run one of the aesthetic clinics in Bali? Here are seven things I'd do, based on these answers and on what Google, OpenAI and Perplexity publish about how theirs work.

Count How Often You're Named

One answer that lists you first proves little. The next run can reorder everything. Count the answers that name you, per assistant and per question, over several runs, and write down the date, the device and the mode each time so you can compare like with like. One run isn't enough. I know, because one run is all this post has.

Read What the Answers Cite First

Here, it was a handful of Bali guides and directories, the kind your patients already read. Is a guide that keeps getting cited missing you? Start there. Send its editor a plain, factual note. And don't buy a placement dressed up as independent.

Keep Your Google Business Profile Complete

Google says Business Profile information helps local businesses show up in its AI responses. It also says chasing artificial mentions doesn't help (Google Search Central, AI optimization guide, updated July 2026). So keep it complete, keep it accurate, and skip the tricks.

Let the Assistants Read Your Site

OpenAI says any public site can appear in ChatGPT search unless it blocks OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI, and its crawler documentation). Perplexity has its own crawler, and you can check both in your robots file. If your firewall blocks them, you may never be read at all. Check yours.

Give Each Main Treatment Its Own Page

You saw it above: the names followed the kind of question. A clinic known online for one treatment went missing from answers about another.

That gap is fixable.

One page per main treatment. First-hand facts your doctor has checked (what it is, who does it, how long it takes, how to book) and a review date. That gives an assistant something to read for that question. It won't guarantee a mention, but it's the kind of first-hand, people-first page Google asks for (Google Search Central).

Fix Wrong Facts Where They Start

Assistants get things wrong. Your hours, your area, a doctor who has left. Look at the page the answer cites. Correct it where you control the page, or write to whoever publishes it, then check the next run. Arguing with the assistant won't help. It changes nothing for the next person who asks.

Don't Write for the AI What You Couldn't Publish Anyway

Permenkes 1787/2010 lists superlatives, comparisons with other clinics, testimonials and discounts among the things health facilities' ads and publications can't use. PP 28/2024 keeps the advertising of prescription drugs to scientific media. A page written to be quoted is still your publication. How far that reaches into your own site and Instagram is a question for your legal adviser. I'm flagging a risk, not giving legal advice.

And Healthy Look? In that one answer, the assistant worked from checkable facts the clinic had put on its own site. Should you publish your doctors' registrations too? Ask your adviser first. I would. Permenkes 1787 also restricts academic titles in publications.

This is what we check in a Marketing Audit, at a bigger scale: 90 assistant answers, 10 questions, three runs each, against three competitors. To see how we work with clinics, read marketing for aesthetic and skin clinics in Bali. And for the longer version of how AI search works, read our piece on AI search for dental practices. It's written for Australia, but it's built on the same platform documents.

Common Questions

This is my snapshot from 12 and 13 October 2026. If you spot a clinic detail I've got wrong, message us and we'll correct it.