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AI Tool Statistics 2026: 999 Analyzed

Analysis of 999 distinct product websites listed on AIForest: pricing labels, category distribution, exclusions and a reproducible methodology.

Latest included source record change: . This is not a vendor verification date.

Key findings

AIForest's analyzed public catalog contains 999 distinct product websites after duplicate and eligibility checks.

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484 of 999 analyzed AIForest listings (48.4%) are labelled Free. Pricing labels are catalog-supplied and have not been independently verified.

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311 of 999 analyzed AIForest listings (31.1%) are labelled Freemium. Pricing labels are catalog-supplied and have not been independently verified.

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109 of 999 analyzed AIForest listings (10.9%) are labelled Paid. Pricing labels are catalog-supplied and have not been independently verified.

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88 of 999 analyzed AIForest listings (8.8%) are labelled Free trial. Pricing labels are catalog-supplied and have not been independently verified.

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304 of 999 analyzed listings (30.4%) are assigned to Content Creation & Generation, using AIForest's normalized primary category.

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115 of 999 analyzed listings (11.5%) are assigned to Developer & Data Science Tools, using AIForest's normalized primary category.

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Pricing labels

Denominator: 999 analyzed websites. Labels describe submitted catalog information, not independently checked vendor offers.

LabelListingsShare
Free48448.4%
Freemium31131.1%
Paid10910.9%
Free trial888.8%
Not specified70.7%

Primary categories

CategoryListingsShare
Content Creation & Generation30430.4%
Developer & Data Science Tools11511.5%
Productivity & Automation10110.1%
Business & Marketing939.3%
Computer Vision & Image Processing858.5%
Other686.8%
Conversational AI & Chatbots505%
Education & Learning343.4%
Audio, Music & Speech323.2%
NLP222.2%
AutoML Platforms131.3%
Finance & Investment131.3%
Machine Learning101%
Vision101%
Healthcare & Wellness90.9%
Human Resources & Recruitment80.8%
E-commerce & Retail70.7%
Expert system60.6%
Security & Surveillance30.3%
Speech30.3%
Classification20.2%
Inventory Management20.2%
Robotics20.2%
Data Annotation & Labeling10.1%
Identity Verification10.1%
Language Learning10.1%
Planning10.1%
Product Recommendations10.1%
Speech-to-Text10.1%
Text-to-Speech10.1%

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Methodology and limits

Only published public listings with a valid HTTP or HTTPS product website are eligible. Adult and NSFW entries are excluded by the directory's existing eligibility filter. Websites are deduplicated by hostname and path, ignoring www, query parameters and trailing slashes; the newest record is retained. Primary categories are normalized using AIForest's category IDs. All percentages use the complete cleaned sample, including unspecified pricing, and are rounded to one decimal place.

14 additional public rows were excluded during website validation and deduplication after the directory eligibility filter. Unspecified labels remain in the denominator. Shares may not sum to exactly 100% because of rounding.

Titles, descriptions, categories and pricing labels may be entered by submitters or catalog editors. Inclusion is not an endorsement, quality score or claim about market share. Private user, payment and founder performance data are never used.

The report is regenerated from the public catalog with an hourly data cache. The displayed source modification date is the latest available timestamp on an included record, not an independent vendor verification date. Cache refreshes alone do not create a new modification date.

Suggested citation

AIForest, AI Tool Catalog Statistics. Source record date: 2026-10-27. Cite https://aiforest.app/research/ai-tools with your access date.

Questions about this report

How many distinct products are included in this analysis?

999 distinct product websites in AIForest's public catalog pass the eligibility and duplicate checks. This is a count of AIForest listings, not a census of the AI industry.

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How many analyzed products are labelled Free?

484 of 999 analyzed listings are labelled Free. Freemium and Free trial are counted separately. Labels are supplied catalog information and should be checked on the vendor's website.

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How is the catalog analysis calculated?

Only published public listings with a valid HTTP or HTTPS product website are eligible. Adult and NSFW entries are excluded by the directory's existing eligibility filter. Websites are deduplicated by hostname and path, ignoring www, query parameters and trailing slashes; the newest record is retained. Primary categories are normalized using AIForest's category IDs. All percentages use the complete cleaned sample, including unspecified pricing, and are rounded to one decimal place.

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When do these statistics change?

The report is regenerated from the public catalog with an hourly data cache. The displayed source modification date is the latest available timestamp on an included record, not an independent vendor verification date. Cache refreshes alone do not create a new modification date.

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