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Data period: Oct 2025 – Sep 2026

Most Popular AI Tools

This monthly dashboard tracks 6,056 AI tools by web traffic. Explore 12-month rankings, market share, traffic sources and top movers across 149+ categories and 163+ countries.

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Most popular AI tools at a glance

The headline numbers for the last 12 months, measured across every AI tool in the tracked set.

AI tools tracked
6,056AI tools in the dataset
Total tracked visits
169.89Bestimated visits in the last 12 months
12-month change
+33.18%change in AI tool traffic
Top 10 AI tools
69.9%of all tracked visits
41.66% ChatGPT

Roughly two in every five visits to AI tools go to ChatGPT

ChatGPT took 70.78B of the 169.89B visits tracked in the last 12 months. Together with Gemini, the two leaders account for 48.47% of tracked visits.

ChatGPT 41.66% Gemini 6.81% All 6,054 other AI tools 51.53%
70.78B12-month visits
6.7×The traffic of the #3 AI tool
48.47%With Gemini included
+35.86%Change vs previous 12 months

Estimated data from SEMrush, Ahrefs and Aitools.xyz · Figures shown for the last 12 months (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026)

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AI tool traffic trend over 12 months

Compare the latest traffic trend with the previous period, or view the largest AI tools side by side.

Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 across the selected dataset

A chart comparing tracked AI tool traffic over time.

AI tools gaining and losing the most traffic

The AI tools that added or lost the most visits in the last 12 months.

Biggest traffic gainers

  1. 1 ChatGPTChatbots +18.68B visits36% more than the previous 12 months
  2. 2 GeminiChatbots +9.40B visits433% more than the previous 12 months
  3. 3 ClaudeChatbots +7.13B visits527% more than the previous 12 months
  4. 4 GrokChatbots +1.90B visits192% more than the previous 12 months
  5. 5 CanvaDesign Generators +690.57M visits7.0% more than the previous 12 months

Biggest traffic declines

  1. 1 Google TranslateTranslators -1.35B visits23% less than the previous 12 months
  2. 2 QuizLetStudents Tools -278.16M visits28% less than the previous 12 months
  3. 3 DeepL TranslateTranslators -273.66M visits33% less than the previous 12 months
  4. 4 Magnific (Freepik)Image Generators -259.63M visits13% less than the previous 12 months
  5. 5 QuillBotAcademic Writing Tools -123.70M visits17% less than the previous 12 months

Key insights

These 4 findings draw on the 6,056 AI tools we tracked in the last 12 months, and show where attention in the AI market sits and where it is shifting.

+42.33B visits added

AI tool traffic grew worldwide in the last 12 months

The 6,056 AI tools tracked worldwide drew 169.89B visits in the last 12 months, up 33.18% from the previous 12 months. That means AI tools added 42.33B visits over 12 months.

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48.47% held by two tools

AI tool traffic remains concentrated at the top

ChatGPT and Gemini captured 48.47% of all AI tool visits worldwide in the last 12 months. ChatGPT alone held 41.66%, 6.1 times the visits of Gemini.

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91.5% direct and search

Direct and search drive AI tool traffic; AI referrals remain small

Direct and Search accounted for 91.5% of all AI tool visits worldwide in the last 12 months. AI chatbots and Google AI Mode sent 855.21M visits to AI tools, or 0.5% of their traffic, so most people still reach an AI tool by going to it directly or by searching for it.

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61.2% chatbots

The Chatbots category leads AI tool traffic

The Chatbots category drew 103.95B visits in the last 12 months, 61.19% of all AI tool traffic worldwide. Design Generators followed with 6.41%, then Translators at 3.08%.

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Top 100 most popular AI tools

Ranked by visits worldwide in the last 12 months, Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. Search the ranking or filter by category.

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Most popular AI tools ranked for the last 12 months
RankAI toolCategory12-month visitsChangeThe share of all tracked AI tool visits that went to this tool in the selected period. The bars run from 0 to 100%.Market share
1 ChatGPT↗ Chatbots 70.78B+18.68B +35.86% 41.66%41.66%
2 Gemini↗ Chatbots 11.56B+9.40B +433.45% 6.81%6.81%
3 Canva↗ Design Generators 10.60B+690.57M +6.97% 6.24%6.24%
4 Claude↗ Chatbots 8.48B+7.13B +527.48% 4.99%4.99%
5 Google Translate↗ Translators 4.48B-1.35B -23.13% 2.64%2.64%
6 DeepSeek↗ Chatbots 3.87B+496.34M +14.73% 2.28%2.28%
7 Grok↗ Chatbots 2.90B+1.90B +191.50% 1.70%1.70%
8 Perplexity↗ Chatbots 2.21B+516.71M +30.60% 1.30%1.30%
9 Character AI↗ Character Chat Tools 1.99B+328.02M +19.75% 1.17%1.17%
10 JanitorAI↗ Character Chat Tools 1.87B+497.59M +36.24% 1.10%1.10%
11 Magnific (Freepik)↗ Image Generators 1.74B-259.63M -12.97% 1.03%1.03%
12 Microsoft Copilot↗ Chatbots 1.16B+73.30M +6.72% 0.69%0.69%
13 Suno↗ Music Generators 1.03B+444.76M +75.78% 0.61%0.61%
14 Microsoft 365 Copilot↗ AI Assistants 979.60M+164.38M +20.16% 0.58%0.58%
15 Salesforce↗ Sales Tools 934.47M-16.37M -1.72% 0.55%0.55%
16 Remove.bg↗ Background removers 911.32M-48.48M -5.05% 0.54%0.54%
17 Google AI Studio↗ Large Language Models 798.89M+461.03M +136.46% 0.47%0.47%
18 QuizLet↗ Students Tools 732.01M-278.16M -27.54% 0.43%0.43%
19 Qualtrics ↗ B2B Tools 708.73M-50.57M -6.66% 0.42%0.42%
20 Grammarly↗ Grammar Checkers 689.26M-68.74M -9.07% 0.41%0.41%
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Where AI tool traffic comes from

Channel mix across 169.89B tracked AI tool visits.

A chart showing the share of traffic from each source.
Total tracked169.89Bvisits in the last 12 months
Traffic source breakdown
SourceVisitsShare12-month change
Direct130.90B77.0%—
Search24.63B14.5%—
Referral10.29B6.1%—
Social2.34B1.4%—
AI Traffic808.10M0.5%—
Google AI Mode47.11M0.0%—
Other894.14M0.5%—
Direct and Search account for 91.5% of all tracked visits. AI traffic channels together sent 855.21M visits, representing 0.5% of the total.

Which AI tool categories get the most traffic

Categories ranked by visits. Select one to see its top AI tools.

Category traffic ranking for the last 12 months
RankCategoryVisitsChangeShare of trafficOpen detail
1103.95B+60.20%61.19%61.19%
210.90B+4.67%6.41%6.41%
35.23B-24.46%3.08%3.08%
44.84B+39.17%2.85%2.85%
53.62B-7.08%2.13%2.13%
63.29B+41.57%1.94%1.94%
72.74B+0.97%1.61%1.61%
81.79B+64.60%1.05%1.05%
91.49B+42.48%0.88%0.88%
101.48B+15.03%0.87%0.87%
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Most popular AI tools by category

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Most popular Chatbots

Ranked by share of traffic within this category, Oct 2025 – Sep 2026

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  1. 1 ChatGPT 68.1%
  2. 2 Gemini 11.1%
  3. 3 Claude 8.2%
  4. 4 DeepSeek 3.7%
  5. 5 Grok 2.8%
  6. 6 Perplexity 2.1%
  7. 7 Microsoft Copilot 1.1%
  8. 8 Doubao 0.6%
  9. 9 Meta AI 0.4%
  10. 10 Qwen Chat 0.4%
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Which countries generate the most AI tool traffic

Countries ranked by visits. Select one to see its top AI tools.

Country traffic ranking for the last 12 months
RankCountryVisitsChangeGlobal shareOpen detail
132.65B+25.35%20.82%20.82%
213.11B+16.40%8.36%8.36%
39.79B+991.31%6.24%6.24%
48.85B+31.30%5.64%5.64%
55.49B+29.72%3.50%3.50%
64.96B+65.17%3.16%3.16%
74.80B+35.50%3.06%3.06%
84.18B+16.01%2.66%2.66%
94.11B+29.87%2.62%2.62%
103.63B+31.24%2.32%2.32%
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Most popular AI tools by country

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Most popular AI tools in the United States

Ranked by share of traffic within this country, Oct 2025 – Sep 2026

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  1. 1 ChatGPT 38.7%
  2. 2 Canva 5.7%
  3. 3 Claude 4.8%
  4. 4 Gemini 4.0%
  5. 5 JanitorAI 2.1%
  6. 6 Google Translate 1.9%
  7. 7 Character AI 1.9%
  8. 8 Grok 1.8%
  9. 9 QuizLet 1.3%
  10. 10 DeepSeek 1.2%

Questions about the most popular AI tools

Direct answers to common questions, citation guidance, and how the dataset is built.

Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 figures, in one line each

What is the most popular AI tool right now?

ChatGPT is the most popular AI tool in the last 12 months, with 70.78B visits. That gives it 41.66% of all traffic to the 6,056 AI tools we track.

Gemini ranks second with 11.56B visits, followed by Canva with 10.60B visits. These figures count browser-based website visits, not mobile or desktop app usage.

What is AI tool market share, and how is it calculated?

AI tool market share shows how much of all tracked AI tool traffic one tool captures in a given 12-month period.

The formula is: ChatGPT 12-month visits / total AI tool visits = ChatGPT market share.

ChatGPT received 70.78B visits out of 169.89B tracked AI tool visits in the last 12 months, giving it 41.66% market share.

Visits show size. Market share shows position. A tool can gain visits and still lose share if the rest of the AI market grows faster.

Which AI tool category gets the most traffic?

The Chatbots category gets the largest share of AI tool traffic in the last 12 months, with 103.95B visits and 61.19% of the total.

Design Generators ranks second with 6.41%, followed by Translators at 3.08%.

Which country sends the most traffic to AI tools?

United States sends the most visits to AI tools, with 32.65B visits in the last 12 months and 20.82% of the AI tool visits we can place in a country.

India ranks second with 13.11B visits, followed by Bangladesh with 9.79B visits. Country figures show where demand for AI tools is strongest, not just which tools are largest globally.

Where does AI tool traffic come from?

The largest source of AI tool traffic in the last 12 months is Direct, with 130.90B visits or 77.0% of the total. Search follows with 24.63B visits and 14.5%.

In plain terms, most people go straight to the AI tools they already use, and search is how they find the next one.

What is the fastest-growing AI tool right now?

ChatGPT gained more visits than any other tracked AI tool in the last 12 months, adding 18.68B visits compared with the previous 12 months.

Gemini ranked second with 9.40B additional visits. These rankings are based on absolute rolling 12-month visit growth, not percentage growth.

Which AI tool is losing the most traffic right now?

Google Translate lost more visits than any other tracked AI tool in the last 12 months, down 1.35B visits from the previous 12 months, a 23.13% decline.

QuizLet had the second-largest decline, losing 278.16M visits. These rankings are based on absolute rolling 12-month traffic decline.

What is measured, and how

How much of all tracked web traffic goes to AI tools?

AI tools drew 169.89B of the 3.92T visits we tracked across 7,254 websites in the last 12 months, a 4.33% share.

That wider set includes the world's most visited websites, so the figure shows how much of mainstream web traffic now lands on AI tools. It is a share of tracked visits, not of the whole internet.

Where does this data come from, and how reliable is it?

The data comes from established third-party analytics providers, including SEMrush, Ahrefs, and Aitools.xyz. We track 6,056 AI tools across global and country-level markets, then calculate visits, traffic sources, market share, and change against the previous period for whichever period you select.

These numbers are estimates, not the tools' own server logs. They are best used for comparison, trend spotting, market share analysis, and understanding directional movement across the AI market.

This dataset counts browser-based website visits, not app usage or unique visitors. A returning visitor can be counted more than once if they visit again.

How often is the AI tool traffic data updated?

The data updates every month after the previous calendar month is complete. The current dashboard shows the last 12 months of data for 6,056 AI tools across 149+ categories and 163+ countries.

Use the period filter to compare months or full years and to see how AI tool traffic changes over time.

Why can one company appear more than once in the rankings?

Some companies run several AI products on separate domains or subdomains, and traffic providers measure each one separately. We keep them as separate entries when the source data does, so each product has its own traffic profile. For example, Gemini, Google Translate and Google AI Studio are listed separately.

That gives a cleaner product-level view, but it also means a company's total reach may be spread across more than one row.

How much AI tool traffic comes from AI chatbots and AI search?

AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, together with Google AI Mode, sent 855.21M visits to AI tools in the last 12 months, 0.5% of all AI tool traffic.

So even for AI products, referrals from other AI assistants are still a small channel next to direct visits and search.

How are AI tools grouped into categories?

Each AI tool sits in a broad group, such as Text Generators, and a more specific category inside it, such as Chatbots, following the Aitools.xyz taxonomy. The category rankings on this page use the specific categories, and each one links to its own ranking page.

Can I use these numbers in an article?

Yes. Journalists and researchers are welcome to reuse these figures. Credit One Little Web, Digital Market Intelligence, and link to this page. The citation block in this section carries a ready-made line, and the full ranking is available as a CSV download.

Name the period you quote, as this one does: figures describe the last 12 months and are replaced when the next month lands. A number quoted without its period stops being true a few weeks later.

Describe them as estimates. They come from third-party providers such as SEMrush, Ahrefs, and Aitools.xyz rather than from the tools' own server logs, so "estimated" or "tracked" visits is the accurate framing.

Methodology

Data providers
  • SEMrush
  • Ahrefs
  • Aitools.xyz

Our AI tool traffic analysis is based on estimated data from third-party analytics providers, including SEMrush, Ahrefs, and Aitools.xyz. We track AI tools across global and country-level markets, updating the dataset every month after the previous calendar month is complete.

For each AI tool, we analyze visits, traffic sources, market share, and movement against the previous period. These figures are estimates, not the tools' own server logs, so they should be used directionally for ranking, comparison, trend spotting, and market share analysis.

This dataset counts browser-based website visits, not unique visitors or app usage. A returning visitor may be counted more than once if they visit again. Some rankings may include both a parent website and specific AI products, feature pages, or subdirectories from the same domain when traffic providers report them separately.

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