Real-Time AI Market Map (2026)
AI-classified software ranked by observed payment activity across the Cledara customer population.
1689 classified tools across 13 categories. Rankings through Oct-2026.
Based on classified software and anonymized purchase signals from Cledara customers. This is a view of the customer dataset; catalogue inclusion alone does not establish an active paid subscription.
As of 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC, Anthropic/Claude leads the AI-classified tools by trailing 12-month payment activity in Cledara, ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and Google Workspace. This ranking does not measure distinct customer adoption or product usage.
About this dataset
This AI market map records 1,689 classified products, including AI-native tools, AI-embedded software and hyperscalers. Products with observed ranks are ordered by trailing 12-month software purchase and renewal transactions across Cledara customers. Anthropic/Claude ranks ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT as of 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC. Catalogue inclusion alone does not establish current paid use. Updated monthly.
AI tools ranked by payment activity in 2026
The top 20 AI-classified tools by trailing 12-month payment activity in Cledara. Anthropic/Claude has 12.3% of recorded transactions across all software, ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and Google Workspace. Shares use the all-software denominator, not just AI products or distinct customers.
Ranks count trailing 12-month purchase and renewal transactions. Shares use all software recorded in Cledara, including products outside AI; they do not measure distinct customers.
| # | Tool | Category | Type | Payment-activity rank | Payment-activity share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthropic/Claude | AI Platforms & Model Ops | AI-Native | #1 | |
| 2 | OpenAI/ChatGPT | AI Platforms & Model Ops | AI-Native | #2 | |
| 3 | Google Workspace | Collaboration & Productivity | Hyperscaler | #4 | |
| 4 | Cursor | Engineering & DevOps | AI-Native | #5 | |
| 5 | GitHub | Engineering & DevOps | #7 | ||
| 6 | Figma | Marketing & Growth | #10 | ||
| 7 | Slack | Collaboration & Productivity | #11 | ||
| 8 | Webflow | Marketing & Growth | #12 | ||
| 9 | Zoom | Collaboration & Productivity | #13 | ||
| 10 | Hubspot | Marketing & Growth | #14 | ||
| 11 | Zapier | Engineering & DevOps | #16 | ||
| 12 | Vercel | Engineering & DevOps | #17 | ||
| 13 | Notion | Collaboration & Productivity | #19 | ||
| 14 | Canva | Marketing & Growth | #20 | ||
| 15 | Miro | Collaboration & Productivity | #23 | ||
| 16 | Intuit Mailchimp | Marketing & Growth | #25 | ||
| 17 | ElevenLabs | Marketing & Growth | AI-Native | #26 | |
| 18 | Lovable | Engineering & DevOps | AI-Native | #27 | |
| 19 | Typeform | Marketing & Growth | #28 | ||
| 20 | OpenRouter | AI Platforms & Model Ops | AI-Native | #29 |
The AI market map by category
Filter the catalogue by founded year, category or country. The activity ranking above describes the full published population. PNG exports show a summary of the full catalogue: up to six tools in each of the twelve largest categories. CSV and JSON include all matching tools. Countries describe recorded vendor headquarters.
AI Market Map
1689 matching tools in 13 categories
Marketing & Growth
Creative & Design (25)
Social Media Management (15)
Content (14)
Paid Ads & Attribution (12)
SEO & Content Optimization (11)
Email & Marketing Automation (3)
Source: classified software and anonymized purchase signals from Cledara customers. Published 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC.
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This table contains the tools on this catalogue page. Complete data is available in the CSV and JSON downloads. The activity ranking above always describes the full published population.
| Product | Category | Subcategory | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outgrow | Marketing & Growth | ABM & Personalization | Outgrow offers a platform for creating interactive content, including quizzes, calculators, recommendations, and chatbots, aimed at increasing engagement and lead generation. It allows for personalization and analytics to improve marketing efforts and integrates with various tools to enhance workflows. This service targets marketers seeking to boost conversion rates and acquire leads through engaging interactive content. |
| ZenABM | Marketing & Growth | ABM & Personalization | ZenABM is a platform that provides account-based marketing analytics by integrating LinkedIn ad engagement data with CRM systems. It enables users to score accounts, identify buyer intent, and monitor campaign performance through pre-configured dashboards. |
| Jasper | Marketing & Growth | Content | Jasper AI is a copywriting tool that uses the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically produce copy for blog posts, landing pages, social media, ads, marketing emails, and more. Jasper AI has various templates and customization options for tone and style. It is particularly useful for marketers, content creators, and small businesses, offering features like text and image generation, SEO optimization, and grammar checking. |
| InVideo | Marketing & Growth | Content | InVideo is a video creation platform providing an online video editor that allows users to create professional videos using templates, stock footage, and music, supporting features like automated text-to-speech and voiceovers. |
| Wordtune | Marketing & Growth | Content | Wordtune is a platform to help users improve their writing and enhance their productivity. The product offers several features to address common business problems related to writing and communicating effectively. One of its key features is Wordtune Rewrite, which allows users to perfect their writing, whether it's a single word or an entire page. The AI-powered recommendations provided by Wordtune help users write like professionals, ensuring their thoughts are expressed accurately without worrying about grammar or spelling mistakes. |
| Murf.ai | Marketing & Growth | Content | Murf is a that uses artificial intelligence to transform text into speech. It allows users to create voiceovers for various applications such as e-learning modules, videos, podcasts, and marketing materials. The platform provides access to over 120 voices in more than 20 languages. |
| Frase | Marketing & Growth | Content | Frase is a tool aimed at enhancing SEO and content creation through artificial intelligence. It assists in researching, outlining, writing, and optimizing content to improve Google rankings. The platform provides features for analyzing competitors' content, generating content briefs, creating optimized outlines, and producing SEO-friendly text, facilitating collaboration and efficiency in content marketing strategies. |
| Writesonic | Marketing & Growth | Content | Writesonic is an AI-powered content creation and customer experience platform that offers a variety of tools for businesses and individuals. The platform aims to be a one-stop solution for content creation, audio generation, image crafting, and AI chatbot development. With Writesonic, users can generate high-quality written content quickly and efficiently. The platform uses advanced natural language processing algorithms to generate human-like text that can be used for various purposes, such as blog posts, social media captions, email newsletters, product descriptions, and more. This can save businesses and individuals a significant amount of time and effort in content creation. In addition to text generation, Writesonic offers an AI voice generator that allows users to create realistic-sounding voiceovers for their videos, podcasts, and other audio content. The platform also provides tools for image crafting, allowing users to generate eye-catching visuals for their social media posts and other marketing materials. |
| QuillBot | Marketing & Growth | Content | QuillBot is an AI-powered paraphrasing tool that enhances your writing by providing various ways to rephrase your text. It aims to improve your fluency, vocabulary, tone, and style, allowing you to use the right words for any occasion. The tool offers unlimited Custom modes and 8 predefined modes, giving you the flexibility to customize the amount of vocabulary change you want. It also utilizes an AI-powered thesaurus to suggest synonyms for words in your paraphrase. QuillBot integrates seamlessly with Chrome and Microsoft Word, simplifying the process of rephrasing sentences, paragraphs, or articles. |
| GPTZero | Marketing & Growth | Content | GPTZero is a platform that detects text generated by artificial intelligence models such as GPT-3 and GPT-4. It evaluates text at sentence, paragraph, and document levels using metrics like perplexity and burstiness to determine if the content is generated by AI. The tool analyzes predictability and variability in the text to identify its origin. The platform supports operations in environments where verification of text origin is critical, such as academic settings and document authentication processes. |
| Kie.ai | Marketing & Growth | Content | Kie.ai provides unified AI APIs for text, video, music, and image generation. It enables developers and businesses to integrate advanced AI functionality via a single API gateway. |
| Delphi AI | Marketing & Growth | Content | Delphi AI is a platform that enables users to create digital versions of themselves, known as "Digital Minds." These digital personas can interact with others, providing coaching, answering questions, and sharing knowledge, effectively allowing users to scale their presence and impact across various platforms. |
| CopyAI | Marketing & Growth | Content | CopyAI is an AI-driven platform focused on enhancing sales and marketing processes. It provides tools for automating and optimizing tasks such as lead scoring, CRM hygiene, email outreach, and meeting preparation. The platform is designed to assist sales and marketing teams with a range of automated workflows and AI-powered solutions. |
| Trupeer AI | Marketing & Growth | Content | Trupeer is a platform that converts rough screen recordings into polished, branded product-videos and step-by-step documentation using AI. |
| muse.ai | Marketing & Growth | Content | muse.ai is a video collaboration platform that hosts, transcribes, and analyzes video content, enabling search by speech, text, and objects. Supports custom branding and analytics tracking. |
| BypassGPT | Marketing & Growth | Content | BypassGPT offers a tool that rewrites or “humanizes” AI-generated text so that the output is claimed to be undetectable by AI-detection systems. |
| Magnific | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Magnific is an AI-powered image upscaler and enhancer that enables users to enhance the resolution and detail of any image using artificial intelligence technology. |
| Remove Background | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Remove.bg is a tool that automatically removes backgrounds from images using AI technology. It's designed for individuals, photographers, marketers, developers, and businesses needing to isolate subjects from their backgrounds for various purposes. The service integrates with design software and offers APIs for custom workflows. |
| Kapwing | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Kapwing is a collaborative platform designed to simplify and accelerate video creation for teams. It offers a suite of tools that automate tasks, support real-time editing, and aim to enable the easier creation of content that adheres to brand standards. Kapwing aims to streamline the video creation process from start to finish, fostering collaboration among team members and ensuring content consistency across the brand. |
| Soundly | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Soundly utilizes artificial intelligence, related searches, auto-complete, thesauruses, and curated collections, to help search, index and manage your local and cloud based libraries. |
| MakeUGC | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | MakeUGC is an AI-powered platform that enables businesses to quickly create high-quality user-generated content (UGC) videos for marketing purposes. |
| Biteable | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Biteable is a platform that offers an online video maker and editor, enabling users to create and edit video content using pre-built scenes and AI-assisted tools. The main features include video trimming, cropping, audio removal, text addition, and more, catering to diverse needs such as marketing, education, and team collaboration. |
| Yapper | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Yapper is a cloud-based video creation and AI coaching platform that allows users to capture ideas, generate scripts, record video, edit transcripts, and schedule posts. The web application operates on a subscription and credit-based model to provide access to its video tools and artificial intelligence models. |
| Pika Art | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Pika Art is a platform leveraging artificial intelligence to transform text or image prompts into dynamic video content, empowering users to bring their creative ideas to life. |
| BeyondWords | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | BeyondWords is an AI voice and audio publishing platform that enables users to convert text into engaging audio content. |
| neuroflash | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | neuroflash is a platform that uses AI technology to assist with content creation and brand messaging. It enables users to generate written content, including marketing copy, product descriptions, and other text-based materials, through AI algorithms. The platform provides tools for creating language that aligns with specific brand guidelines and communication strategies. Users input key themes or concepts, and the platform produces content that can be used across various digital and print channels. |
| Submagic | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Submagic is an AI-powered platform that streamlines short-form video editing by automating tasks like captioning, trimming, and adding effects. |
| Cutout.pro | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Cutout.Pro is a platform that provides tools for photo and video editing through AI technology. It includes features for automatic background removal, photo enhancement, and video editing tasks. |
| Wondercraft | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Wondercraft AI is a platform that transforms written content into podcasts using generative AI technology. The platform offers features such as AI voices, hosting, script generation, show notes, video content creation, and translation. It is designed to create studio-quality podcasts quickly, enhancing the production value of podcasts with tools and features that simplify the process. |
| Maestra | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Maestra offers an AI-powered platform for automating the transcription, captioning, and voiceover of video and audio files. |
| Sync.so | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Sync.so is an AI-driven video editing platform that allows creators to seamlessly synchronize lip movements in videos with any audio or text input, facilitating content localization and personalization. |
| Boords | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Boords is a storyboarding software that offers AI-powered tools for image and script generation, real-time collaboration, and multiple export options, enabling efficient and creative planning of video projects. |
| Kaps | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Kaps is a plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro designed to automate the creation of animated captions and subtitles. It uses AI to transcribe and generate captions in multiple languages. |
| PIXELCUT | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | An AI-driven photo and video editor offering tools like background remover, image upscaler, generative fill, Magic Eraser, AI backgrounds, templates, video generation. Accessible via web, iOS, Android, and APIs |
| Playbook | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Playbook is a cloud storage platform designed specifically for creative files. It serves as a repository for visual assets, automatically tagging and organizing them to facilitate easy browsing and retrieval. Playbook aims to streamline the management of creative files, providing an efficient solution for individuals or teams to store and quickly locate the visual content they need. |
| Rephrasy | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Rephrasy offers a tool for transforming AI-generated text into human-sounding content and includes a built-in detector to check for AI-written text. |
| Confect | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Confect is a web-based platform that enables the design and deployment of dynamic product catalog advertisements across channels like Meta, TikTok, and email. It supports image and video formats, allows for A/B testing, and integrates with CMS platforms. Users can customize ad designs using brand assets and automate design variations based on campaign data. |
| Dreamina | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Dreamina is a web-based AI creative platform hosted by CapCut that provides tools for generating images, videos, and animated avatars from text prompts or uploaded media. The platform processes user inputs through generative artificial intelligence models to produce visual content such as AI-generated art, short video clips, and lip-synced character animations directly in the browser. |
| JuicyLucy | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | JuicyLucy is a platform that uses AI to transform static product images into product demo and video ads for e-commerce stores. The platform integrates with merchants’ product catalogs and generates videos that can be published on online storefronts and marketing channels. |
| Zeely | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | Zeely is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to generate advertising creatives and launch marketing campaigns by creating video, static, and automated ads from product information. |
| Quiver | Marketing & Growth | Creative & Design | QuiverAI is an AI-powered vector graphics platform and API that generates, edits, vectorizes, and animates clean SVG assets directly from text prompts or raster images. Designed for designers, software developers, and AI agents, its specialized models output lightweight, production-ready code for scalable logos, UI illustrations, typography, and micro-animations. |
| KLING AI | Marketing & Growth | Design | KLING AI offers AI-driven solutions to enhance customer engagement and operational efficiency through advanced data analytics and automation. |
| UXpilot.ai | Marketing & Growth | Design | UX Pilot is a platform that provides AI-powered tools for the user experience (UX) design process. It generates UI designs, wireframes, and style guides, and synthesizes insights from text. The platform aims to facilitate the creation of custom workshops and conducts AI-driven UX design reviews. It integrates with Figma to automate tasks such as requirements gathering, user insights extraction, and information analysis. |
| Lovart AI | Marketing & Growth | Design | Lovart AI is an AI-powered design platform that enables users to create professional-quality visuals from text descriptions. It offers features such as real-time editing, batch production, and integration with multiple AI models, supporting various export formats. |
| PhotoRoom | Marketing & Growth | Design | PhotoRoom is a platform that uses AI technology for seamless photo editing. Tailored for sellers of all scales, Photoroom empowers users to generate studio-quality, high-performance images, |
| Vizard | Marketing & Growth | Design | Vizard is an AI-driven video editor that simplifies the process of turning long videos into viral social media clips. |
| Vectorizer.AI | Marketing & Growth | Design | Vectorizer.AI is a platform that specializes in the conversion of raster images, such as PNG and JPG files, into full-color SVG vector graphics. Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI), it automates the process of tracing pixels to vectors, enabling users to convert their images. |
| Ortto | Marketing & Growth | Email & Marketing Automation | Ortto is a marketing automation and customer-data platform that helps businesses create personalized customer journeys. It combines features such as email marketing, SMS, push notifications, and AI-driven engagement tools to streamline and enhance customer interactions. |
| Seventh Sense | Marketing & Growth | Email & Marketing Automation | Seventh Sense is a platform that automates the optimization of email send times for users of HubSpot and Marketo. It uses artificial intelligence to determine the best times to send emails to individual recipients. The platform includes features for managing email delivery schedules and allows for real-time adjustments during campaigns. |
| Transpond | Marketing & Growth | Email & Marketing Automation | Transpond is a marketing platform that consolidates tools to create, automate, and manage email campaigns, signup forms, social media content, SMS messages, and unified inbox communications for customer engagement and support. It offers features such as drag‑and‑drop email design, segmentation, AI‑powered suggestions, live chat, and analytics centralizing multiple marketing functions into one interface. |
| Zapmail | Marketing & Growth | Marketing | Zapmail is a team-focused email platform that combines traditional email with collaboration tools like channels and AI assistance |
| Sprout Social | Marketing & Growth | Marketing | Sprout Social helps businesses transform their social media marketing strategy and improve their overall organization. The platform streamlines and scales monitoring and engagement efforts, enabling businesses to manage and respond to social conversations through a unified social inbox. It also offers publishing and scheduling capabilities, access to comprehensive social data and analytics, and listening capabilities to uncover trends and actionable insights from social conversations. |
| Hootsuite | Marketing & Growth | Marketing | Hootsuite is a social media marketing and management tool that helps users optimize time on social media. It offers a range of features to solve various business problems related to social media management. Users can publish and schedule content, engage with customers, monitor activity, advertise content, and analyze results. The tool also includes an employee advocacy feature and integrations with other platforms. |
| AdManage.ai | Marketing & Growth | Marketing | AdManage.ai automates the creation and bulk uploading of ads to Meta and TikTok platforms. It supports batch processing of over 100 ads per session, with features including creative grouping by aspect ratio, dynamic naming conventions, UTM parameter management, and integration with external asset management systems. |
| AnswerRank | Marketing & Growth | Marketing | AnswerRank is a SaaS tool that monitors how a brand appears in AI-generated search results and provides actionable insight for improving visibility on platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini. |
| Otterly.AI | Marketing & Growth | Marketing | Otterly.AI is a SaaS platform that enables businesses to monitor their brand and content visibility across AI-powered search experiences like Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity.AI. It provides insights into keyword rankings, brand mentions, and link visibility to help optimize content strategies. |
| Magellan AI | Marketing & Growth | Marketing | Magellan AI is a platform that provides advertising insights and competitive intelligence for podcasts. It leverages a proprietary machine-learning algorithm to analyze podcast advertising data, offering insights into ad spend, advertisers, and ad creatives. |
| AdCreative.ai | Marketing & Growth | Marketing | AdCreative.ai is a platform that allows businesses to generate conversion focused ad creatives and social media posts using AI. |
| Limelight | Marketing & Growth | Other | Limelight is a B2B creator partnership SaaS platform that helps brands discover, match, and activate content creators, automating large parts of the partnership process and providing real-time analytics to measure campaign performance. |
| Kompyte | Marketing & Growth | Other | Kompyte is a competitive intelligence platform that monitors competitors and market activity. Users can track competitor activity, collect data, and generate insights. |
| AppLovin | Marketing & Growth | Paid Ads & Attribution | AppLovin is a platform that provides a range of solutions and services to help mobile app developers and advertisers acquire, engage, and monetize users. They offer a platform for mobile advertising, app monetization, and user acquisition, aiming to connect advertisers with their target audience and optimize mobile app revenue. |
| Atria | Marketing & Growth | Paid Ads & Attribution | Atria is an AI-powered ad workflow platform that provides insights, ideation, and analytics to optimize ad performance across Meta and TikTok. |
| AppsFlyer | Marketing & Growth | Paid Ads & Attribution | AppsFlyer is a platform that provides measurement, analytics, engagement, protection, and collaboration solutions for mobile, web, and CTV platforms. The product aims to help businesses make data-driven decisions by giving them visibility into campaign performance, maximizing customer lifetime value, and scaling app installs. |
| Hyros | Marketing & Growth | Paid Ads & Attribution | Hyros is an AI-driven attribution tool that tracks sales data across multiple channels, providing detailed insights into ad performance and customer behavior. It integrates with existing systems and requires minimal setup. |
| Adscore | Marketing & Growth | Paid Ads & Attribution | Adscore provides ad fraud detection services to identify and categorize web traffic as human, proxy, low quality, or bot-driven. |
| Birch | Marketing & Growth | Paid Ads & Attribution | Bïrch automates ad management across platforms like Meta, Google, Snapchat, and TikTok, optimizing budgets and streamlining campaign operations. |
| Sembot | Marketing & Growth | Paid Ads & Attribution | Sembot is a platform that helps users manage and optimize performance marketing campaigns. It supports the creation and automation of campaigns across platforms like Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising, and provides tools for optimizing product feeds and handling routine marketing tasks. |
| Optmyzr | Marketing & Growth | Paid Ads & Attribution | Optmyzr is a PPC management suite powered by AI and machine learning, giving advertisers control over their campaigns for smarter automation and tailored decision-making |
| AdLabs | Marketing & Growth | Paid Ads & Attribution | AdLabs is a cloud platform for managing Amazon PPC campaigns with hybrid automated/manual bid optimization. It provides reporting, budget allocation, and campaign tools. |
| Parker AI | Marketing & Growth | Paid Ads & Attribution | Parker AI provides an AI-powered creative strategy and ad optimization platform built for direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands and growth marketing agencies. The platform automates creative research, conducts performance audits on Meta ad accounts, extracts marketing insights from customer reviews and ad comments, and surfaces viral content trends across networks like TikTok and Facebook to generate actionable ad briefs. |
| Cloudginny | Marketing & Growth | Paid Ads & Attribution | Cloudginny provides an artificial intelligence advertising agent that creates, audits, and optimizes Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising campaigns for ecommerce businesses. The system monitors search terms, sets negative keywords, structures Performance Max campaigns, and adjusts budgets based on chat instructions and user approvals. |
| AdOpt | Marketing & Growth | Paid Ads & Attribution | - |
| Profound | Marketing & Growth | SEO & Content Optimization | Profound is a platform that collects and analyzes data on how AI-powered search engines, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Microsoft Copilot, reference and present information about brands. It provides tools to monitor AI-generated content, track citations, and measure traffic originating from AI-driven search results. |
| Sitechecker | Marketing & Growth | SEO & Content Optimization | Sitechecker is a platform that offers a website SEO checker & audit tool for reporting, alerting, insights, and forecasting. |
| Promptwatch | Marketing & Growth | SEO & Content Optimization | Promptwatch is a platform that tracks how large language models generate answers mentioning a brand, product or competitor across AI-search systems. It enables users to monitor, analyse and optimise their visibility in AI-driven search environments. |
| Searchable | Marketing & Growth | SEO & Content Optimization | Searchable operates as an artificial intelligence search visibility and analytics platform for modern brands. This tool monitors brand citations across large language models and provides real-time insights regarding brand authority within synthesized answers. |
| Waikay | Marketing & Growth | SEO & Content Optimization | Waikay is an AI-powered search optimization and brand monitoring platform. The tool analyzes how large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude perceive and represent a brand, allowing users to track visibility, identify knowledge gaps (hallucinations), and perform competitive benchmarking. |
| PageOptimizer | Marketing & Growth | SEO & Content Optimization | PageOptimizer Pro is a comprehensive on-page SEO and content optimization tool. It provides a suite of features such as content briefs, a Chrome extension, a content editor, and AI-powered content prompts to help create and optimize web content efficiently, ensuring it meets Google's ranking factors. |
| Outrank | Marketing & Growth | SEO & Content Optimization | Outrank provides a comprehensive platform that automates the process of generating SEO-optimized blog posts. |
| iGEO | Marketing & Growth | SEO & Content Optimization | iGEO is a platform that helps businesses monitor, control, and improve how their brand appears in AI-driven search results by tracking mentions and optimizing content for generative answer engines. It focuses on making content more likely to be cited and represented in responses from AI search systems such as ChatGPT, Google SGE, Bing Chat, and Perplexity rather than just ranking in traditional search results. |
| My Telescope | Marketing & Growth | SEO & Content Optimization | MyTelescope is an AI-driven market analysis platform that analyzes demand signals from search data to provide actionable insights for market trends. |
| InLinks | Marketing & Growth | SEO & Content Optimization | InLinks is an entity-based Semantic SEO platform that assists users in optimizing website content for improved search engine visibility. It offers features such as content optimization, internal linking automation, and schema markup generation. |
| Discovered Labs | Marketing & Growth | SEO & Content Optimization | Discovered Labs is a service that audits a B2B company’s visibility across both traditional search engines and AI-driven answer engines and then produces content, citations and structured data to drive mentions and recommendations. It combines SEO and “Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)” techniques to help the brand appear in AI assistant responses and search results. |
| vidIQ | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | vidIQ is a YouTube audience development and management suite that helps brands and agencies grow their views and subscribers. |
| Favikon | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | Favikon is an AI-powered influencer platform designed for B2C and B2B marketing campaigns, featuring an integrated CRM for managing influencers, AI-driven discovery, in-depth profiles, rankings, and reports for social insights. |
| Typefully | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | Typefully is a platform for writing, scheduling, and publishing tweets and threads on social media. It includes features like AI-powered writing assistance, engagement analytics, automatic retweets, auto-DMs, and support for multiple social media platforms. The tool aims to simplify content creation and improve audience engagement through a streamlined interface. |
| Shortimize | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | Shortimize is a platform that enables users to track, analyze, and manage short-form video content across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. It provides tools for monitoring account performance, discovering viral trends, and managing multiple accounts through a centralized dashboard. |
| Highperformr | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | Highperformr is a Gen AI-driven platform that integrates social media management, lead generation, and customer relationship management, enabling businesses to amplify their social presence and drive growth. |
| AuthoredUp | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | AuthoredUp is a chrome extension and web app, to help you find ideas, write content, analyze performance, and reuse your posts on LinkedIn. |
| Awario | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | Awario is a SaaS tool that monitors online mentions of specified keywords across 13 billion web pages daily, providing sentiment analysis and competitive insights. |
| KWatch.io | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | KWatch.io enables real-time social media monitoring across platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, allowing users to track mentions, analyze sentiment, and receive alerts through email, Slack, or webhooks. |
| Octolens | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | Octolens is an AI-driven social listening platform that monitors web and social media platforms - including LinkedIn, Reddit, X/Twitter, GitHub, Hacker News, Stack Overflow, and others - to detect keyword mentions in real time. It delivers alerts via email or Slack based on relevance scoring. |
| Supergrow | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | Supergrow is a web-based AI platform designed for LinkedIn content creation and management. It enables users to generate posts from various inputs, including PDFs, YouTube videos, articles, and voice notes. The tool offers features such as carousel creation, post scheduling, and AI-assisted comment generation. |
| Yorby | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | Yorby’s platform uses AI tools to help creators, social media managers, marketers, and brands generate content by analyzing viral content, generating scripts, providing a database of high-performing posts, and offering tools to research competitor performance to support social media growth and campaign creation. The platform combines AI-driven content remixing, viral format discovery, and engagement analytics to assist users in planning and optimizing social media content. |
| Mentionlytics | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | Mentionlytics is a platform that offers social media monitoring and brand tracking services |
| NapoleonCat | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | Napoleon Cat is a social media management tool offering features like Social Inbox, automatic post moderation, content scheduling, analytics, and reporting. It aims to streamline social media management across various platforms including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, and more. |
| Exolyt | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | Exolyt is a TikTok analytics and social intelligence SaaS platform. It delivers real-time insights on performance (account, video, hashtag), emerging trends, sentiment analysis, influencer campaign tracking, influencer discovery, and social listening. It also supports exports to CSV, Google Sheets, and Airtable for flexible reporting and data workflows. |
| Reacher | Marketing & Growth | Social Media Management | Reacher is an AI-powered affiliate marketing platform specifically designed for TikTok Shop brands to discover, manage, and scale creator partnerships. It automates the entire affiliate process, from finding relevant creators and sending bulk outreach to managing sample requests, tracking GMV, and running targeted campaigns. |
| Sitecore | Marketing & Growth | Website & Landing Pages | Sitecore is a customer experience management platform utilized for web content management and digital experience management. It is widely employed by businesses and organizations to create, manage, and optimize digital experiences across various channels, including websites, mobile apps, and email. Sitecore encompasses features such as content management, personalization, analytics, and marketing automation. |
| ScoreApp | Marketing & Growth | Website & Landing Pages | ScoreApp is a platform that enables businesses to create customizable quizzes and scorecards using an AI quiz builder. It provides tools for creating dynamic landing pages, detailed reports, and seamless integrations with CRMs for lead generation and engagement. |
Largest three-month activity-rank gains among AI-native tools
Highperformr has the largest measured three-month activity-rank gain among AI-native products with both calendar-month observations: 1,442 positions, as of 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC. Rank movement is not a percentage growth rate.
| Tool | Category | Rank 3 months ago | Rank now | Ranks gained |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highperformr | Marketing & Growth | #2,675 | #1,233 | 1,442 |
| Anam | Customer Success & Support | #2,725 | #1,467 | 1,258 |
| Kie.ai | Marketing & Growth | #2,588 | #1,364 | 1,224 |
| Venice AI | AI Platforms & Model Ops | #2,720 | #1,540 | 1,180 |
| Sphere | Finance & Accounting | #2,686 | #1,681 | 1,005 |
AI-native vs AI-embedded vs hyperscaler
Every product on this map carries one of three classifications. AI-native products are built primarily around AI models; Anthropic/Claude is one. AI-embedded products add AI features to an existing software platform, like GitHub. Hyperscalers are the large cloud platforms that ship AI services alongside everything else, like Google Workspace. Of the AI tools on the map, 67.9% are AI-native, 31.4% AI-embedded and 0.7% hyperscalers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which AI tools lead the payment-activity ranking in 2026?
Anthropic/Claude, OpenAI/ChatGPT and Google Workspace lead the AI-classified products by trailing 12-month payment activity in Cledara as of 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC. See the top-20 ranking above. This does not measure seats or usage.
Which AI tool has the highest recorded payment activity?
Anthropic/Claude leads the AI-classified activity ranking, ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT, with 12.3% of trailing 12-month transactions across all software tracked by Cledara. This is not an AI-only share or the percentage of companies using the tool.
Does Claude or ChatGPT have the higher payment-activity rank?
Anthropic/Claude has the higher trailing 12-month payment-activity rank of the recorded Claude and ChatGPT products, as of 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC. Activity rank alone cannot establish which receives more spend or has more distinct customers.
How many AI-classified products are recorded?
The catalogue records 1,689 AI-classified products across 13 categories. Catalogue inclusion does not require a current paid observation and does not measure a typical company's tool count. Updated monthly.
What counts as an AI-native product?
AI-native products are built primarily around AI models (e.g. Anthropic/Claude); AI-embedded products add AI to an existing platform (e.g. GitHub). Every product on the map is labelled with its classification.
Related data
Cledara AI Market Map, "Real-Time AI Market Map (2026)", data.cledara.com, updated 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC. Cite with attribution under the site's CC BY-NC 4.0 data license.