65 Most Popular AI Tools Ranked (February 2026)

This is a detailed list of the most popular AI tools as of February 2026, ranked by total monthly visits.

ChatGPT leads the race among AI tools, having 5.5 billion monthly visits.

The next most popular AI tools are Canva, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek. 

We also calculated the total traffic volume of all 65 tools to generate the estimated market share for each individual AI tool.

All traffic data in the table comes from February 2026 traffic estimates using Semrush.

Top 65 Popular AI Tools by Monthly Visits

Ranking	AI Tool	Monthly Traffic	Estimated Market Share
1	ChatGPT	5.5 billion	57.59%
2	Canva	870.4 million	9.11%
3	Gemini	805.6 million	8.43%
4	Grok	265.5 million	2.78%
5	DeepSeek	262 million	2.74%
6	Claude	219.9 million	2.30%
7	Perplexity AI	206.1 million	2.16%
8	DeepL	169.4 million	1.77%
9	Character.ai	156.5 million	1.64%
10	Janitor AI	135.9 million	1.42%
11	Microsoft Copilot	94.5 million	<1%
12	Suno	85.5 million	<1%
13	CapCut	82.9 million	<1%
14	Remove.bg	73.8 million	<1%
15	Google AI Studio	69.1 million	<1%
16	Grammarly	54.4 million	<1%
17	ElevenLabs	52.6 million	<1%
18	QuillBot	47.3 million	<1%
19	Lovable	39.3 million	<1%
20	Hugging Face	37.2 million	<1%
21	NotebookLM	33.2 million	<1%
22	Gamma	24.4 million	<1%
23	Wayground  (formerly  Quizizz)	22.8 million	<1%
24	Manus	22.2 million	<1%
25	Cursor	19.2 million	<1%
26	Kimi	18.5 million	<1%
27	Replit	16.8 million	<1%
28	HeyGen	16.5 million	<1%
29	Midjourney	16.4 million	<1%
30	Leonardo	15.8 million	<1%
31	DeepAI	13.1 million	<1%
32	Poe	13 million	<1%
33	InVideo	11.7 million	<1%
34	n8n	10.7 million	<1%
35	OpusClip	9.1 million	<1%
36	Zapier	8.4 million	<1%
37	Runway	7.1 million	<1%
38	Otter.ai	6.6 million	<1%
39	Descript	4.2 million	<1%
40	Luma AI	3.6 million	<1%
41	Consensus	3.3 million	<1%
42	Stable Diffusion	2.8 million	<1%
43	Synthesia	2.7 million	<1%
44	Filmora	2.4 million	<1%
45	Pictory	2 million	<1%
46	Groq	1.9 million	<1%
47	you.com	1.6 million	<1%
48	Microsoft Designer	1.5 million	<1%
49	Fliki	1.4 million	<1%
50	Beautiful.ai	1.3 million	<1%
51	Murf.ai	1.1 million	<1%
52	WriteSonic	914K	<1%
53	Wordtune	847K	<1%
54	Jasper	810.5K	<1%
55	Pi	807.7K	<1%
56	Krisp	738.6K	<1%
57	Copy.ai	652K	<1%
58	Resemble	534K	<1%
59	Play.ht	483.6K	<1%
60	SlidesAI	449.4K	<1%
61	Lumen5	386.6K	<1%
62	HyperWrite	368.5K	<1%
63	Rytr	233.1K	<1%
64	Tabnine	163.3K	<1%
65	Mem	98.9K	<1%

Which AI Tools Saw the Biggest Growth?

Rank	AI Tool	Previous Traffic (Dec. 2025)	Current Traffic (Feb. 2026)	% Growth
1	Kimi	1.4 million	18.5 million	1221.43%
2	Gemini	520.8 million	805.6 million	54.68%
3	Lovable	25.6 million	39.3 million	53.52%
4	Replit	12.3 million	16.8 million	36.59%
5	ElevenLabs	43.3 million	52.6 million	23.79%

While platforms like ChatGPT, Canva, DeepSeek, and Copilot saw a decrease in traffic since the last update to this post, a handful of platforms saw significant growth. 

Most notably, Kimi grew from 1.4 million monthly viewers in December to 18.5 million monthly viewers in February, representing growth of 1,221.43%. 

This is likely due, at least in part, to the newer Kimi K2 model. Users have been praising its writing abilities, as well as its cost efficiency. 

Gemini and Lovable both saw similar increases of 54.68% and 53.52%, respectively. 

Replit grew by 36.59%, with Eleven Labs coming in at the number 5 spot with 23.79% growth. 

Although Gemini is a pretty commonly-used platform, the other tools on this list indicate users experimenting with specialty platforms that aren't quite as mainstream. 

Here are 10 notable AI tools from the list that we want to highlight.

1. Perplexity AI

5-year search growth: 5,900%

Search growth status: Regular

Monthly organic traffic (Global): 16,600,000 

Perplexity AI is a chat-based conversational search engine that uses various deep learning and large language models to answer user queries. The tool currently supports over 45 million monthly active users and processes 780 million queries per month.

The tool is popular for its research features.

That's largely due to one key difference in how Perplexity operates compared to other chatbots:

Perplexity heavily relies on sourcing its answers based on real-time web search and clear citations. 

Recently, Perplexity also launched advanced shopping features on its Pro and above plans. These allow users to research, discover, compare, and purchase products directly from the chat interface.

Additionally, Perplexity offers a new AI-powered web browser known as Comet. The AI tool is expanding from just generative AI search into a true AI productivity suite.

The free delivery option for products purchased via Perplexity is likely fueling its popularity, too.

2. Claude

5-year search growth: 99x%

Search growth status: Exploding

Monthly organic traffic (Global): 5,000,000

Developed by Anthropic, Claude is a conversational AI assistant that prioritizes AI safety by producing “helpful, honest, and harmless” content.

In May 2025, Claude launched its next-generation models: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. This was followed by Claude Opus 4.1 in August. 

In February 2026, Anthropic released Opus 4.6 for complex, high-stakes tasks, as well as Sonnet 4.6, commonly used for coding, computer tasks, and agentic processes and workflows. 

Anthropic is also one of the most funded and highest-valued private AI companies. It was valued at $18.5 billion in February 2024. One year later, in February 2025, its value had soared to $61.5 billion. 

After its most recent round of Series G funding in February 2026, Anthropic is valued at $380 billion. 

3. Google Gemini

5-year search growth: 2,200%

Search growth status: Peaked

Monthly organic traffic (Global): 55,600,000

Gemini, formerly known as Bard, is a family of multimodal AI models developed by Google DeepMind. Like ChatGPT, Gemini is available as a chatbot to answer questions, create images, translate languages, write code, and more.

One day after releasing Gemini Advanced, Google One surpassed 100 million users. The Google Gemini mobile app has over 500 million downloads on the Google Play Store since launching in February 2024.

4. Microsoft Copilot

5-year search growth: 5,500%

Search growth status: Regular

Monthly organic traffic (Global): 2,400,000

Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered productivity tool and conversational chatbot. Because of Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI, Copilot uses the startup’s latest models, including Dall-E 3, GPT-5, and GPT-4o. Microsoft has claimed that more than 1 million customers and 37,000+ organizations use Copilot.

5. DeepL

5-year search growth: 48%

Search growth status: Regular

Monthly organic traffic (Global): 24,900,000

DeepL provides translation services using artificial neural networks. The app is known for delivering high-quality translations in 31 different languages, including more natural-sounding translations with accurate grammar and context.

The company recently released DeepL Write, an AI writing assistant that helps with grammar, spelling, and punctuation while offering suggestions to improve clarity, tone, and style. More than 10 million people use the service monthly, including 500,000+ Pro members.

Tip: When using an AI writing assistant for SEO, hybrid AI content is the optimal strategy. Search engines value human voice and insight. 

6. Canva

5-year search growth: 533%

Search growth status: Exploding

Monthly organic traffic (Global): 185,000,000

Canva is an AI-powered graphic design tool where users can create presentations, logos, banners, etc. The design platform also offers a suite of AI tools known as the Magic Studio, which includes an AI art, text, and design generator. Today, Canva has over 260 million active customers.

7. Poe

5-year search growth: 39%

Search growth status: Peaked

Monthly organic traffic (Global): 2,700,000

Developed by Quora, Poe is an AI chatbot aggregator that allows users to create custom bots or access existing models. It supports some of the best AI models, including Claude 3.7 Sonnet, DeepSeek R1, and the latest models from OpenAI. The app generated $7.3 million from 40,000 paid user subscriptions.

8. DeepAI

5-year search growth: 2,900%

Search growth status: Peaked

Monthly organic traffic (Global): 673,000

DeepAI is an online collection of AI tools, including a conversational chatbot and multiple image, video, and music generator features. 

9. ElevenLabs

5-year search growth: 8,300%

Search growth status: Regular

Monthly organic traffic (Global): 5,000,000

ElevenLabs is a speech synthesis company that offers AI-assisted text-to-speech, speech-to-speech, voice cloning, and more. Users can generate audio in 29 different languages and 120 unique voices. In January 2024, the startup crossed 1 million registered users after raising $80 million in Series B funding at a valuation of $1 billion.

10. CapCut

5-year search growth: 1,329%

Search growth status: Exploding

Monthly organic traffic (Global): 11,100,000

Known for its viral video templates on TikTok, CapCut is an AI video editing platform owned by ByteDance. CapCut's suite of tools includes video editing, templates, a music library, and various AI features like background removal, auto-captions, and text-to-speech. According to the latest data, CapCut has 490 million iOS and Android users.

Conversational Chatbots and Generative AI Tools Lead the Race

Based on monthly traffic, AI tools for work-related tasks tend to be the most popular. Writing assistants like QuillBot and general models like ChatGPT and Gemini are among the favorites for the vast majority. 

Photo and video editing platforms with AI capabilities (like Canva) are also extremely popular. 

That said, AI tool popularity trends change very rapidly. The launch of Deepseek, for instance, produced a sizable market shift that's likely impacted ChatGPT's growth speed (despite still being quite strong). Platforms can go from explosive growth to having peaked in a short period of time due to the number of AI platforms emerging, as well as stronger updates from the most-used tools. 

We regularly update this post with the latest stats in response to these market changes. So remember to check back often!