74 Most Popular AI Tools Ranked (October 2026)

ChatGPT is the most popular AI tool, with 5.32 billion website visits in June 2026, according to Semrush. That's more than half (51.73%) of all visits to the 74 AI tools we track. Google Gemini (1.14 billion), Claude (967.9 million) and Canva (759.8 million) are next.

Claude made the biggest jump since our last update. Its visits more than tripled between February and June 2026. Grok and Perplexity both lost more than a fifth of their traffic over the same period.

Below, we rank the 74 most popular AI tools by monthly website visits. We also show which tools are growing fastest, which new tools joined the list, and what the 10 most visited tools offer.

Top AI Tool Statistics

• ChatGPT received 5.32 billion visits in June 2026, 51.73% of all visits to the 74 AI tools ranked here (Semrush)
• The 74 most popular AI tools received 10.29 billion visits combined in June 2026 (Semrush)
• Claude's visits grew 236.2% between February and June 2026, the fastest growth of any AI tool with 10 million+ monthly visits (Semrush)
• Gemini overtook Canva to become the second most visited AI tool, with 1.14 billion visits in June 2026 (Semrush)
• ChatGPT had more than 1.2 billion weekly users in September 2026 (OpenAI)
• Searches for "Claude AI" grew 611% between October 2024 and September 2026 (Exploding Topics)

What Are the 74 Most Popular AI Tools?

The most popular AI tools are general AI assistants. ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude received a combined 7.43 billion visits in June 2026, more than 72% of all visits to the 74 tools on this list.

Here are the 74 most popular AI tools, ranked by monthly website visits in June 2026:

Rank	AI Tool	Monthly Visits (June 2026)	Share of Visits
1	ChatGPT	5.32 billion	51.73%
2	Gemini	1.14 billion	11.06%
3	Claude	967.9 million	9.41%
4	Canva	759.8 million	7.39%
5	DeepSeek	318.8 million	3.10%
6	Grok	189.9 million	1.85%
7	Character.ai	165.5 million	1.61%
8	DeepL	145.4 million	1.41%
9	Perplexity AI	140.7 million	1.37%
10	Microsoft Copilot	92.7 million	<1%
11	Suno	81.8 million	<1%
12	CapCut	68.6 million	<1%
13	NotebookLM	66.5 million	<1%
14	Remove.bg	63.0 million	<1%
15	ElevenLabs	54.9 million	<1%
16	Google AI Studio	50.5 million	<1%
17	Lovable	50.0 million	<1%
18	Grammarly	45.5 million	<1%
19	QuillBot	40.9 million	<1%
20	Hugging Face	39.5 million	<1%
21	Higgsfield	34.9 million	<1%
22	Meta AI	32.1 million	<1%
23	Manus	29.3 million	<1%
24	Kimi	29.3 million	<1%
25	Qwen Chat	28.2 million	<1%
26	Cursor	27.2 million	<1%
27	Photoroom	23.8 million	<1%
28	Gamma	21.9 million	<1%
29	SeaArt	20.1 million	<1%
30	Leonardo	18.0 million	<1%
31	Replit	17.9 million	<1%
32	HeyGen	17.0 million	<1%
33	Wayground (formerly Quizizz)	16.5 million	<1%
34	DeepAI	14.9 million	<1%
35	Z.ai (GLM)	13.7 million	<1%
36	GPTZero	12.8 million	<1%
37	Cutout.pro	11.3 million	<1%
38	Civitai	11.0 million	<1%
39	Midjourney	10.5 million	<1%
40	Speechify	10.3 million	<1%
41	InVideo	9.5 million	<1%
42	Runway	8.6 million	<1%
43	OpusClip	7.9 million	<1%
44	Zapier	7.1 million	<1%
45	n8n	6.9 million	<1%
46	Poe	6.7 million	<1%
47	Otter.ai	5.5 million	<1%
48	Consensus	4.3 million	<1%
49	Descript	3.8 million	<1%
50	Groq	3.7 million	<1%
51	Luma AI	3.6 million	<1%
52	Synthesia	2.8 million	<1%
53	Filmora	2.1 million	<1%
54	Stable Diffusion	1.7 million	<1%
55	Pictory	1.3 million	<1%
56	you.com	1.1 million	<1%
57	Microsoft Designer	1.1 million	<1%
58	Fliki	1.1 million	<1%
59	Beautiful.ai	936.8K	<1%
60	WriteSonic	828.5K	<1%
61	Jasper	803.6K	<1%
62	Murf.ai	764.3K	<1%
63	Krisp	609.0K	<1%
64	Wordtune	517.8K	<1%
65	Copy.ai	367.7K	<1%
66	Pi	330.4K	<1%
67	Resemble	282.8K	<1%
68	Lumen5	253.8K	<1%
69	Play.ht	208.7K	<1%
70	HyperWrite	208.5K	<1%
71	Rytr	158.8K	<1%
72	SlidesAI	146.3K	<1%
73	Tabnine	113.6K	<1%
74	Mem	107.7K	<1%

Share of visits is each tool's share of combined visits to all 74 tools. Figures are for June 2026.

Which AI Tools Are Growing Fastest?

Claude is the fastest-growing AI tool. Claude.ai's monthly visits grew 236.2% between February and June 2026, from 287.9 million to 967.9 million, according to Semrush.

Here are the five fastest-growing AI tools with 10 million+ monthly visits:

Rank	AI Tool	February 2026	June 2026	Change
1	Claude	287.9 million	967.9 million	+236.2%
2	Cursor	18.0 million	27.2 million	+51.1%
3	Gemini	808.9 million	1.14 billion	+40.6%
4	Leonardo	14.3 million	18.0 million	+25.4%
5	Lovable	40.0 million	50.0 million	+25.2%

Coding tools grew fast too. Cursor's visits grew 51.1%, and AI app builder Lovable's grew 25.2%.

Several big names lost traffic. Grok's visits fell 24.5% between February and June 2026, and Perplexity's fell 21.5%. Midjourney (-23.5%) and Wayground, formerly Quizizz (-25.5%), also fell.

For marketers, traffic shifts this large are a signal to check where your audience is asking questions. If a tool loses a fifth of its visits in four months, check whether your audience is moving elsewhere.

Which New AI Tools Joined the List?

10 AI tools joined the list in this update, each with more than 10 million visits in June 2026. AI video and image generator Higgsfield is the biggest newcomer, with 34.9 million visits.

AI Tool	Monthly Visits (June 2026)	Rank
Higgsfield	34.9 million	21
Meta AI	32.1 million	22
Qwen Chat	28.2 million	25
Photoroom	23.8 million	27
SeaArt	20.1 million	29
Z.ai (GLM)	13.7 million	35
GPTZero	12.8 million	36
Cutout.pro	11.3 million	37
Civitai	11.0 million	38
Speechify	10.3 million	40

Three of the new entries are AI chatbots: Meta AI, Alibaba's Qwen Chat and Zhipu AI's Z.ai. The rest are image, video, voice and AI detection tools.

What Are the 10 Most Popular AI Tools?

The 10 most popular AI tools by monthly visits are ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Canva, DeepSeek, Grok, Character.ai, DeepL, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot. Here's what each one does, and its latest figures.

1. ChatGPT

Monthly visits (June 2026): 5.32 billion

Change since February 2026: +2.4%

ChatGPT is OpenAI's AI chatbot and assistant. OpenAI said at DevDay in September 2026 that ChatGPT has more than 1.2 billion weekly users, up from 900 million in February 2026.

OpenAI launched its flagship model, GPT-6 Astra, on September 3, 2026, according to Axios. It released a cheaper model, GPT-6.1 Sol, at DevDay on September 29. OpenAI was valued at $852 billion in March 2026.

For more, see our guide to ChatGPT users.

2. Google Gemini

Monthly visits (June 2026): 1.14 billion

Change since February 2026: +40.6%

Gemini is Google's AI assistant and model family, made by Google DeepMind. The Gemini app passed 1 billion monthly active users in August 2026, according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model, on September 30, 2026. At launch, it is available only to cyber security partners in Google's Fairwind Program.

3. Claude

Monthly visits (June 2026): 967.9 million

Change since February 2026: +236.2%

Claude is the AI assistant and model family made by Anthropic. Anthropic doesn't publish user numbers, but paid Claude subscriptions more than doubled in early 2026, according to TechCrunch.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026. Anthropic was valued at $965 billion after its Series H round in May 2026.

For other options, see our list of Claude alternatives.

4. Canva

Monthly visits (June 2026): 759.8 million

Change since February 2026: -6.7%

Canva is an online design platform with built-in AI tools, made by Australian company Canva. Canva had more than 265 million monthly active users and 31 million paid users in 2025, according to its COO.

Canva's annual recurring revenue reached $4 billion at the end of 2025, according to TechCrunch.

5. DeepSeek

Monthly visits (June 2026): 318.8 million

Change since February 2026: +15.4%

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab that makes open-weight models and the DeepSeek chatbot. DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4 in April 2026, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in September 2026.

In June 2026, DeepSeek was close to raising about $7 billion, its first outside funding, according to Bloomberg. Later reports put the round at more than $7.4 billion, at a valuation of more than $50 billion.

6. Grok

Monthly visits (June 2026): 189.9 million

Change since February 2026: -24.5%

Grok is the AI chatbot built into X, made by SpaceXAI (formerly xAI). About 117 million monthly active users used Grok's AI features as of March 31, 2026, according to SpaceX's IPO prospectus.

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 in July 2026. For more, see our Grok statistics.

7. Character.ai

Monthly visits (June 2026): 165.5 million

Change since February 2026: +11.9%

Character.ai is an AI chat platform where users talk to AI characters. Character.ai had about 20 million monthly active users in October 2025, according to CNBC.

Character.ai CEO Karandeep Anand left to join Disney as its chief technology officer in September 2026.

8. DeepL

Monthly visits (June 2026): 145.4 million

Change since February 2026: -2.4%

DeepL is an AI translation and writing tool made by German company DeepL SE. DeepL now supports more than 100 languages.

DeepL is used by more than 200,000 business teams, according to the company. In April 2026, DeepL launched Voice-to-Voice, for real-time spoken translation.

9. Perplexity

Monthly visits (June 2026): 140.7 million

Change since February 2026: -21.5%

Perplexity is an AI answer engine that cites web sources in its answers. Perplexity also makes the Comet browser and the Perplexity Computer agent.

Perplexity had more than 100 million monthly active users across its search and agent tools in April 2026, according to the Financial Times.

For more, see our Perplexity AI statistics.

10. Microsoft Copilot

Monthly visits (June 2026): 92.7 million

Change since February 2026: +3.7%

Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant across Windows, Edge, Microsoft 365 and a standalone app. Microsoft 365 Copilot had more than 30 million paid seats in July 2026.

Microsoft 365 Copilot uses models from both OpenAI and Anthropic. Microsoft announced a reimagined Copilot, with new Home, Code and Autopilot features, in September 2026.

What Does Search Data Say About AI Tools?

Exploding Topics data shows that searches for "Claude AI" grew 611% between October 2024 and September 2026. Over the same period, searches for "Character AI" fell 54%, and searches for "Perplexity AI" fell 36%.

Here's how monthly search interest in three of the top 10 AI tools has changed, according to Exploding Topics data:

Search Term	October 2024	Peak	September 2026	2-Year Change
Claude AI	6.4M	71.1M (May and June 2026)	45.5M	+611%
Character AI	43.9M	43.9M (October and November 2024)	20.4M	-54%
Perplexity AI	5.3M	9.1M (September 2025)	3.35M	-36%

Search interest and website visits point the same way for Claude and Perplexity. Claude's searches and visits both grew sharply, while Perplexity lost ground on both. Character.ai is the exception: its searches fell, but its website visits grew 11.9% between February and June 2026.

For market researchers, search data is an early signal of which tools are gaining users. You can track any AI tool's website traffic month by month on the Exploding Topics website traffic pages, and see which ones are trending with Exploding Topics for market researchers.

What's Driving AI Tool Popularity?

General AI assistants still dominate. ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude account for more than 72% of all visits to the tools on this list.

But the gap between them is narrowing. Gemini and Claude grew much faster than ChatGPT between February and June 2026, while ChatGPT's visits grew 2.4%.

Coding and app-building tools are another growth area. Cursor, Lovable and Replit all gained traffic between February and June 2026.

New entries also show demand for AI image and video tools, such as Higgsfield, Photoroom and SeaArt, and for chatbots from Chinese labs, such as Qwen Chat and Z.ai. For more on AI adoption, see how many people use AI and our AI chatbot statistics.

How We Compiled This List

We ranked AI tools by total monthly website visits (desktop and mobile), using Semrush Traffic Analytics estimates for June 2026. February 2026 figures are Semrush's current estimates for that month. Semrush has revised some of them since our previous update. For example, Claude's February figure rose from 219.9 million to 287.9 million. We measure each tool at the domain or subdomain that hosts it, such as gemini.google.com. We added new tools with more than 10 million monthly visits. We leave out adult sites, and tools that aren't primarily AI tools. Figures are as of October 6, 2026.

For more AI statistics, take a look at:

• Artificial Intelligence Statistics
• Top Large Language Models
• ChatGPT Alternatives
• Top Mobile AI Apps
• AI Writing Tools

AI tool popularity changes fast. Want to track it yourself? Use Semrush Traffic Analytics to see how ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and any other AI tool grow each month, and where their visitors come from. And use Exploding Topics Pro to spot fast-growing AI tools before they take off.