We compared three statistically consistent summary methods, ASTRAL, ASTRID, and DISTIQUE; overall, ASTRAL was at least as good as other methods on most datasets, but ASTRID was occasionally the best. DISTIQUE was often as good as and never more than 3 % worse than the best method. The choice of the best method depended on the level of ILS and the number of genes, suggesting when the level of ILS is expected to be very high, ASTRAL might be the best choice. On the other hand, the running time of DISTIQUE grows more slowly with increased numbers of genes; for datasets with large number of species and tens of thousands of genes, DISTIQUE and ASTRID provide fast alternatives to ASTRAL.