Real-Time AI Market Map (2026)

Name: Real Time AI Market Map
Creator: Cledara
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

The AI tools companies actually pay for, ranked by purchases across AI-native tools, AI-embedded software and hyperscalers. As of 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC, Anthropic/Claude is the most-purchased AI tool on Cledara, ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and Google Workspace.

Updated 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC1,689 classified tools across 13 categoriesRankings through October 2026

The AI 20

AI tools ranked by payment activity in 2026

The 20 most-purchased AI tools over the last 12 months. Anthropic/Claude accounts for 12.3% of all software purchases on Cledara, ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and Google Workspace.

Ranks count every purchase and renewal over the last 12 months. Shares are a percentage of all software purchases on Cledara, so AI tools can be compared directly with the rest of the software market.

#	Tool	Type	Payment-activity share	1 in N	Payment-activity rank
1	Anthropic/ClaudeAI Platforms & Model Ops	AI-native	12.3%	1 in 8	#1
2	OpenAI/ChatGPTAI Platforms & Model Ops	AI-native	5.9%	1 in 17	#2
3	Google WorkspaceCollaboration & Productivity	Hyperscaler	3.5%	1 in 28	#4
4	CursorEngineering & DevOps	AI-native	3.2%	1 in 31	#5
5	GitHubEngineering & DevOps	AI-embedded	2.1%	1 in 48	#7
6	FigmaMarketing & Growth	AI-embedded	1.3%	1 in 78	#10
7	SlackCollaboration & Productivity	AI-embedded	1.0%	1 in 99	#11
8	WebflowMarketing & Growth	AI-embedded	0.96%	1 in 104	#12
9	ZoomCollaboration & Productivity	AI-embedded	0.83%	1 in 121	#13
10	HubspotMarketing & Growth	AI-embedded	0.8%	1 in 124	#14
11	ZapierEngineering & DevOps	AI-embedded	0.76%	1 in 131	#16
12	VercelEngineering & DevOps	AI-embedded	0.76%	1 in 131	#17
13	NotionCollaboration & Productivity	AI-embedded	0.73%	1 in 137	#19
14	CanvaMarketing & Growth	AI-embedded	0.72%	1 in 138	#20
15	MiroCollaboration & Productivity	AI-embedded	0.67%	1 in 149	#23
16	Intuit MailchimpMarketing & Growth	AI-embedded	0.53%	1 in 188	#25
17	ElevenLabsMarketing & Growth	AI-native	0.5%	1 in 199	#26
18	LovableEngineering & DevOps	AI-native	0.47%	1 in 212	#27
19	TypeformMarketing & Growth	AI-embedded	0.47%	1 in 215	#28
20	OpenRouterAI Platforms & Model Ops	AI-native	0.46%	1 in 215	#29

Of the 20 most-purchased AI tools, 6 are AI-native, 13 AI-embedded and 1 hyperscaler. Together they account for 38% of all software purchases and renewals on Cledara. Marketing & Growth is the most represented category, with 7 of the 20 tools.

"1 in N" turns a tool's share into plain odds: one in every N software purchases and renewals on Cledara goes to that tool. Payment-activity rank places each AI tool among every product bought through Cledara, AI or not.

By category

The AI market map by category

Every AI product companies pay for through Cledara, mapped by category and classified as AI-native, AI-embedded or hyperscaler. Use it to see which AI tools dominate each part of the stack and where new challengers are breaking through.

Breaking through

Largest three-month activity-rank gains among AI-native tools

Highperformr is the fastest-rising AI-native tool, up 1,442 places in the popularity ranking over three months, as of 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC.

Highperformr

Marketing & Growth

#1,233

+1,442places in 3 months

Anam

Customer Success & Support

#1,467

+1,258places in 3 months

Kie.ai

Marketing & Growth

#1,364

+1,224places in 3 months

Venice AI

AI Platforms & Model Ops

#1,540

+1,180places in 3 months

Sphere

Finance & Accounting

#1,681

+1,005places in 3 months

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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

Three kinds of AI

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.

Origins

When and where the AI tools were born

The class of 2023 dominates: more AI tools on the map were founded in 2023 than in any other year. The United Kingdom is the second-largest home for AI tools on the map, after the United States.

Founding year

AI tools on the map by the year the company was founded.

Pre-2000

2005

2010

2015

2020

2023: 262

2026

Headquarters

AI tools on the map by recorded headquarters country.

United States724
United Kingdom122
Germany49
France36
Canada31
Australia23
Netherlands22
Sweden21
Singapore20
Israel19

The full catalogue

Every AI tool on the map

Filter the catalogue by founded year, category or headquarters country. PNG exports show up to six tools in each of the twelve largest categories; CSV and JSON include every matching tool.

1689 matching tools in 13 categories

Sales & Revenue

148 tools in 7 subcategories

Prospecting & Lead Gen (24)

Sales (16)

11x

Sales Engagement (12)

Revenue Intelligence (7)

Sales Enablement (2)

CRM (1)

People Ops & Talent

55 tools in 6 subcategories

Recruiting & ATS (18)

LinkedIn Talent Solutions

Learning & Development (12)

Employee Engagement (5)

HR (1)

Other (1)

Performance Management (1)

Quantive

Source: Cledara software payments data, classified by AI type and category. Published 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC.

View data table

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
Harmonize	People Ops & Talent	Employee Engagement	Harmonize is an HR-based chat bot for employee engagement.
Liven	People Ops & Talent	Employee Engagement	Liven provides a personal growth and digital mental well-being platform that delivers AI-powered life coaching, mood tracking, and self-reflection exercises.
NameShouts	People Ops & Talent	Employee Engagement	NameShouts is a platform that provides audio pronunciations for names in 22+ languages.
Noom	People Ops & Talent	Employee Engagement	-
Zoios	People Ops & Talent	Employee Engagement	Zoios is a platform for employee engagement and well-being analytics. The tool uses surveys and artificial intelligence to monitor workplace culture and generate reports on organisational performance.
Noon AI	People Ops & Talent	HR	Noon AI is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to automate the sourcing, evaluation, and engagement of job candidates for recruiting teams. The platform scans profiles, matches candidates to job criteria, generates outreach messages, and manages hiring workflows using AI models.
Mindsmith	People Ops & Talent	Learning & Development	Mindsmith provides an AI platform for building realistic conversational agents and role-play simulations used for training, coaching, and evaluation. Teams can create custom AI characters to simulate customer, candidate, or prospect interactions for skills practice and assessment.
Muses Academy	People Ops & Talent	Learning & Development	MusesAcademy is an online learning platform that provides personalised educational and self-development content. The platform delivers learning content, recommendations, and user progress tracking through a subscription-based service.
Oliva	People Ops & Talent	Learning & Development	-
Quilgo	People Ops & Talent	Learning & Development	Quilgo is a software that integrates with Google Forms to add a timer and automated proctoring for online assessments, exams, and tests.
Rakoo	People Ops & Talent	Learning & Development	Rakoo is an AI-driven platform dedicated to personal and professional growth, helping organisations and individuals set and achieve their learning and performance goals.
Section	People Ops & Talent	Learning & Development	Section is an enterprise AI training and adoption platform designed to help organisations transition from individual AI use to large-scale workforce transformation. It provides a centralised command centre for tracking AI proficiency, personalised AI coaching for employees, and strategic services to help leaders automate workflows and measure the ROI of their AI investments.
Simply	People Ops & Talent	Learning & Development	Simply is a creative education platform that provides a suite of AI-powered apps, including Simply Piano, Simply Guitar, Simply Sing, and Simply Draw, to help users learn musical instruments and artistic skills. Its proprietary audio and visual recognition technology offers real-time feedback on performance, enabling learners of all ages to follow structured, personalised courses and practice with a library of popular songs and professional tutorials.
Spirio	People Ops & Talent	Learning & Development	Spirio provides an AI-augmented EdTech and digital mindfulness platform available via web interfaces and mobile applications. The platform blends ancient Eastern philosophy with modern interactive technology to deliver guided self-improvement structures, specialized audio sound healing, digital rituals, and video courses tracking areas like kundalini energy awakening, cognitive stress reduction, and sleep restoration.
Talkpal	People Ops & Talent	Learning & Development	Talkpal provides an AI-powered language learning platform accessible through web and mobile applications. Users can practice languages through text and voice interactions and manage learning progress through the platform.
Talkpal	People Ops & Talent	Learning & Development	Talkpal provides an AI-powered language learning platform accessible through web and mobile applications. Users can practice languages through text and voice interactions and manage learning progress through the platform.
Wayground	People Ops & Talent	Learning & Development	Wayground is a gamified learning and engagement platform that utilises artificial intelligence to create interactive quizzes, lessons, and assessments. The tool allows users to transform existing documents, videos, and prompts into educational content and provides real-time analytics to monitor participant progress.
Yousician	People Ops & Talent	Learning & Development	Yousician is a music learning app that teaches guitar, piano, singing, ukulele, bass, and music theory through interactive lessons and real-time feedback. It offers guided practice for individuals and can be used across mobile and desktop devices.
Snapheadshots	People Ops & Talent	Other	SnapHeadshots provides a platform for generating professional AI headshots. Whether for individuals or entire teams, users can easily create studio-quality headshots using advanced AI technology.
Quantive	People Ops & Talent	Performance Management	Quantive provides a strategy execution platform that enables organisations to develop and implement strategies through the use of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The platform utilises artificial intelligence to assist in strategic decision-making. It aims to integrate strategy into the daily operations of all individuals within an organisation, employing OKRs to ensure alignment and using AI and data connectivity to keep initiatives on course. Quantive supports ongoing monitoring of strategy implementation, offering insights and forecasts to facilitate proactive adjustments.
GoHire	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	GoHire Technologies is a company offering comprehensive recruitment software designed to simplify hiring processes for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Their main product includes features like job advertising, candidate screening, an applicant tracking system, and AI tools to optimise recruiting efforts.
Grayscale	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	-
HireBOB	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	-
Hirefly	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	Hirefly.ai is a platform that uses AI to automate parts of the hiring process; sourcing, screening, and ranking candidates. It provides tools to help recruiters manage candidate pipelines, schedule interviews, and improve matching between job requirements and applicant profiles.
LinkedIn Talent Solutions	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	-
Mercer \| Mettl	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	Mercer \| Mettl provides a talent assessment platform featuring customisable solutions, scalable infrastructure, and AI-based proctoring technology. The platform is designed for various organisational needs, including hiring, learning and development, and online examinations.
OptimHire	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	OptimHire is an AI-driven recruitment platform that automates candidate sourcing, screening, and interview scheduling. It integrates with applicant tracking systems (ATS) and supports data formats like JSON and CSV for importing/exporting candidate information.
Quil	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	Quil is an AI-powered notetaker designed for recruiting firms, automating note-taking during interviews and meetings, and integrating with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to enhance hiring efficiency.
Recooty	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	Recooty is an AI-powered applicant tracking system that automates hiring processes, integrates with 250+ job boards, and provides analytics, ensuring GDPR compliance and data security.
Refapp	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	Refapp is a talent intelligence solution designed to aid recruiters in conducting efficient and secure reference checks for every candidate.
Resume Worded	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	-
Screenloop	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	Screenloop is a hiring intelligence platform designed to transform the talent acquisition process for companies. It serves as an end-to-end solution, aiming to enhance the experience for candidates, interviewers, and businesses alike. The primary objective of Screenloop is to enable companies to hire high-quality talent efficiently and at scale. This is particularly significant considering the widespread acknowledgment among businesses of frequent poor hiring decisions and the substantial impact these decisions have on employee turnover.
Serra	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	Serra is a cloud-based recruiting platform that uses AI to automate candidate sourcing, ranking, and outreach. It enables recruiters and HR teams to search for and communicate with potential hires from multiple data sources through a unified interface.
Shortlister	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	Shortlister is an AI-powered candidate screening and video interviewing platform designed for recruiters, hiring managers, and admissions teams. It streamlines applicant evaluations through automated video interviews, psychometric assessments, skills testing, situational simulations, and AI-driven scoring with response authenticity checks.
SourceWhale	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	SourceWhale is a recruiting and business development platform. It helps teams execute daily recruiting activities, find pipeline insights, and nurture relationships at scale from a single location. The platform offers features for personalisation, automation, reporting, and integration, aimed at making recruitment processes more efficient and effective.
SquarePeg	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	SquarePeg.ai is an AI-powered recruitment platform that helps companies match candidates to open roles by using machine learning to screen, rank, and surface the best applicants. It streamlines hiring workflows and candidate discovery for talent teams.
targetconnect	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	TargetConnect is a higher-education career management and talent acquisition platform that connects universities, students, and employers. It provides higher-education institutions with an AI-enabled student CRM to manage career services, appointments, placements, and graduate outcome analytics, while giving employers applicant tracking tools and targeted outreach channels to recruit early-career talent.
Umamy	People Ops & Talent	Recruiting & ATS	Umamy is a recruitment platform that uses AI to help founders and executives identify, connect with, and hire talent through their LinkedIn network. It automates outreach in the founder’s voice and creates a pipeline of candidates.
Affinity.co	Sales & Revenue	CRM	Affinity.co is a AI-powered relationship intelligence platform.
Stairoids	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Stairoids is a real-time signal-based go-to-market (GTM) intelligence platform designed for B2B sales and marketing teams. It tracks over 27 types of buying signals, such as job changes, vacancies, competitor interest, and personal connections, to help organisations identify decision-makers and map decision-making units (DMUs). The platform automates GTM workflows by integrating intent data from web, social, and CRM sources into tools like HubSpot, Salesforce, and Slack.
Ocean.io	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Ocean.io is a platform that offers business intelligence and data solutions. It focuses on aiding businesses in identifying and targeting potential customers by providing insights into company data, contact information, and market trends. The platform is designed to streamline the process of finding and connecting with relevant businesses to support sales and marketing efforts.
Ausar	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Ausar is an AI-powered sales and revenue platform that helps teams automate prospecting, outreach, and pipeline generation. It is designed to support go-to-market workflows with conversational and automation capabilities.
Valley	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Valley is an AI-powered solution that streamlines the process of converting cold leads into scheduled meetings, without the need for any human involvement.
Letaido	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Letaido provides an AI-driven lead generation and outbound automation platform designed to identify and engage prospects across LinkedIn and email. The system automates lead scraping, multi-channel outreach sequences, and personalisation to streamline top-of-funnel sales activities.
MoltSets	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	MoltSets is an agent-first B2B contact data platform that provides developer APIs and an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for automated prospect enrichment. Built specifically to integrate with AI tools and automation engines like Clay and Claude Code, it uses a 20+ vendor waterfall to deliver verified business emails, carrier-checked phone numbers, and company search data through a flat-rate, unlimited pricing model rather than traditional credit-based fees.
Explee	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Explee offers automated lead generation and business development outreach. The platform identifies target prospect profiles, finds contact records, writes email campaigns, and handles prospect replies to arrange sales meetings
YourMax.AI	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	YourMax.AI is an AI-powered sales and revenue enablement platform that tracks market buying signals and filters prospects against target customer profiles. The system automatically enriches contact profiles and ranks prospective leads for sales outreach workflows.
SendKit	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	SendKit is an AI-powered outbound sales platform that helps teams generate personalised cold emails and automate prospecting workflows. It is designed to improve sales outreach efficiency and response rates.
Zynt	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Zynt monitors public data sources, corporate news, job postings and official registries to identify business entities entering buying windows for products and services. The platform automatically aggregates these buying signals, scores them against predefined customer criteria and delivers daily actionable target accounts along with decision-maker contact information to help user organisations reach prospective buyers.
Albacross	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	-
Alfa	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Alfa provides a platform for identifying and prioritising sales leads. It analyses data and signals to help teams target and engage potential customers.
Alfa	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Alfa provides a platform for identifying and prioritising sales leads. It analyses data and signals to help teams target and engage potential customers.
BenefitFlow	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	BenefitFlow is a platform designed for businesses that sell products or services through benefits brokers. The platform utilises proprietary technology to aggregate and synthesize data from government filings and web pages. This synthesized information serves as a valuable resource for businesses, offering a comprehensive repository of prospecting information.
Bitscale	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Bitscale is an AI-powered B2B lead generation and outbound sales automation platform that helps teams discover prospects, enrich contact data, and personalise outreach at scale.
Bitscale	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Bitscale is an AI-powered B2B lead generation and outbound sales automation platform that helps teams discover prospects, enrich contact data, and personalise outreach at scale.
Ciro	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Ciro is an AI-driven platform that automates LinkedIn prospecting by scanning profiles, qualifying leads against predefined customer personas, and extracting contact information, including phone numbers and emails. It integrates with CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot, enabling data transfer.
Cleverly	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Cleverly is a platform designed to assist users in scaling their lead generation efforts on LinkedIn, with the goal of driving predictable revenue.
CloudSale	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	CloudSale is an AI-powered software that automates lead generation, personalises email communication, schedules meetings, and replaces traditional lead generation and engagement tools.
CNPJ BIZ	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	CNPJ.biz is a B2B sales platform that combines a searchable database of Brazilian companies with a native CRM and AI-powered automation for WhatsApp and email prospecting. It streamlines the sales process by enabling businesses to identify leads, automate outreach, and manage client relationships within a single interface.
Cognism	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Cognism is a B2B sales and marketing platform designed to facilitate lead generation, prospecting, and sales acceleration. The platform employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to assist businesses in discovering and engaging potential customers. Cognism incorporates features like data enrichment, lead scoring, and outbound sales automation to streamline the sales process.
Crystal	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	Crystal is a personality data platform that supplies DISC personality profiles for buyers. It utilises AI technology to produce personality data, aiding users in gaining a deeper understanding of the individuals they engage with.
DataBees	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	-
DataLane	Sales & Revenue	Prospecting & Lead Gen	-
Grain.co	Sales & Revenue	Revenue Intelligence	Grain is a Conversation Intelligence platform designed to improve team coaching, deal closing, and playbook optimisation. It automates note-taking, record-keeping, and insight capture.
Pricelabs	Sales & Revenue	Revenue Intelligence	PriceLabs is a dynamic pricing tool for vacation rentals that analyses market data and booking patterns to optimise pricing strategies, integrating with 110+ PMS and Airbnb.
Aligned	Sales & Revenue	Revenue Intelligence	Aligned offers a platform for B2B revenue teams, providing customer journey intelligence, AI-driven customer engagement automation, and a personalised workspace.
Attention	Sales & Revenue	Revenue Intelligence	Attention is a sales intelligence platform that utilises AI to enhance business efficiency. It features a fully-integrated AI-powered sales agent that automates CRM data entry post-sales calls, scores conversations and opportunities, and facilitates searches across all customer touch-points using GPT-type technology.
Jiminny	Sales & Revenue	Revenue Intelligence	Jiminny is a conversation intelligence platform that captures and analyses customer interactions via video, voice, calendar, and email data. The platform logs this data into your CRM and uses AI to transcribe, summarise, and analyse the interactions. It generates insights by highlighting keywords, identifying topics, and creating action items. The platform includes features such as automated call scoring, deal insights, CRM logging, and sales call analytics. It provides dashboards that display pipeline risks, deal visibility, and performance metrics. Jiminny integrates with various tools like Zoom, Slack, Salesloft, and Salesforce.
Meddicc Score	Sales & Revenue	Revenue Intelligence	Meddicc Score is a platform that integrates with CRM systems like HubSpot to automatically apply sales qualification frameworks such as MEDDICC and others to deals and provide AI-driven scoring and insights. The platform extracts CRM data, calculates structured deal scores, and delivers feedback.
Accord	Sales & Revenue	Revenue Intelligence	Inaccord is a sales execution and deal intelligence platform that helps revenue teams inspect pipeline, improve forecast accuracy, and coach reps using conversation and opportunity data. It is designed to support better sales decisions and execution across the funnel.
Apollo.io	Sales & Revenue	Sales	Apollo.io is a platform that provides sales and marketing solutions to help businesses find and engage with potential customers. It offers a suite of tools and features designed to assist sales and marketing teams in prospecting, lead generation, and customer outreach.
Clay Labs	Sales & Revenue	Sales	Clay is a CRM and data enrichment platform that automates the prospecting process. It integrates with various data sources and CRMs, enriches leads, and offers AI-enhanced capabilities for crafting personalised outreach strategies. Clay is aimed at teams and individuals in sales, marketing, and relationship management, helping them to find leads, enrich contact information, and streamline their outreach processes.
Instantly	Sales & Revenue	Sales	Instantly is a platform that use AI to help companies generate more leads through personalised email campaigns at scale.
Smartlead	Sales & Revenue	Sales	Smartlead is a platform that helps businesses find and connect with potential customers more efficiently.
Clay	Sales & Revenue	Sales	Clay is a SaaS product that allows users to manage their personal and professional relationships more thoughtfully. It goes beyond traditional customer relationship management (CRM) systems by automatically organising and intelligently searching the user's entire network. The product aims to keep the user's contacts in sync, making it easier to stay connected and up-to-date with important people. One of the key problems that Clay solves is the challenge of managing and maintaining relationships with a large network of contacts. It imports everyone the user has ever met in real-time and keeps their information enriched with the user's work and education details. The platform also proactively updates the contacts, saving the user time and effort.
Juicebox	Sales & Revenue	Sales	Juicebox is an AI-driven platform that aims to streamline talent acquisition by enabling natural language searches across over 800 million profiles and automating personalised outreach.
AmpleMarket	Sales & Revenue	Sales	Amplemarket is a platform designed to streamline the sales prospecting process for businesses. It provides tools for automating lead generation, prospect research, and outreach activities. The platform enables users to define target customer profiles, search for leads matching specific criteria, and extract contact information from various sources. Amplemarket also offers features for sending personalised email campaigns, scheduling follow-up tasks, and tracking engagement metrics. Additionally, the platform includes integrations with CRM systems and other sales tools.
SalesForge	Sales & Revenue	Sales	SalesForge is a platform designed to enhance cold email outreach. It enables users to send personalised and unique emails at scale in any language, eliminating the need for generic templates. With AI and machine learning capabilities, SalesForge optimises messaging and decision-making for sales activities in real-time.
Unify	Sales & Revenue	Sales	Unify provides a software platform that uses intent signals, AI agents, and multi-channel sequencing to manage prospecting and pipeline generation for go-to-market teams. The platform centralises prospect identification, personalisation, and workflow automation into one system.
11x	Sales & Revenue	Sales	11x is an AI-driven platform that provides services over the internet. It offers a range of solutions that use artificial intelligence to address various business needs. The platform is designed to be accessible through the web, allowing users to utilise AI capabilities without the need for local installations or maintenance of software and hardware. 11x caters to a variety of industries, delivering customised solutions that help businesses optimise their operations, enhance decision-making processes, and improve overall efficiency. The platform's AI technology is advanced, incorporating the latest developments in the field to offer robust and effective solutions. As a cloud-based service, 11x ensures scalability and flexibility, enabling businesses of different sizes to benefit from its offerings. The platform's user interface is designed for ease of use, making AI technology accessible to a wide range of users, regardless of their technical expertise.
6sense	Sales & Revenue	Sales	6sense is a platform designed to support account-based marketing strategies for B2B organisations. It uses artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning to uncover anonymous buying behaviour, prioritise target accounts, and enable sales and marketing teams to engage effectively with potential buyers. By capturing anonymous buying signals and targeting the right accounts at the optimal time, 6sense assists in creating, managing, and converting pipeline to revenue with a focus on predictable growth.
Artisan AI	Sales & Revenue	Sales	Artisan AI is a platform offering human-like digital workers called Artisans. These Artisans automate various tasks such as outbound sales processes, marketing management, and customer service representation.
AutoRFP.ai	Sales & Revenue	Sales	AutoRFP.ai is a SaaS platform that automates responses to RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, DDQs, and SQs using Generative AI. It imports various document formats, including Word, Excel, and PDF, and exports customer spreadsheets by automatically selecting drop-downs and other fields with AI.
Clari	Sales & Revenue	Sales	Clari is a platform specifically designed to enhance and streamline the revenue operations and sales forecasting processes for businesses. At its core, Clari utilises artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to provide advanced sales analytics and management tools, making it a valuable asset for sales teams and revenue leaders.
Clearbit	Sales & Revenue	Sales	Clearbit provides B2B marketing intelligence services, using artificial intelligence to enrich business records and reveal buying intent from website visitors. It gathers public data, proprietary data, and unstructured information, converting it into precise, standardised datasets. The platform offers services such as scoring and routing leads in real-time, identifying high-fit leads, and providing granular industry information.
Convrt.ai	Sales & Revenue	Sales	Convrt.ai is an AI-powered social selling platform that helps sales and marketing teams identify and engage potential customers across various social media channels. It offers features such as lead identification, automated engagement, and multi-channel outreach to enhance sales conversions.
Consensus	Sales & Revenue	Sales Enablement	Consensus is a platform that specializes in providing tailored and interactive product demonstrations for sales and marketing teams. It is designed to revolutionize the way businesses engage with potential customers by creating dynamic, personalised product presentations. With Consensus, companies can build customised product experiences that adapt in real-time based on individual prospect needs and preferences
Curvo	Sales & Revenue	Sales Enablement	Curvo provides an AI-powered sales platform that delivers real-time coaching and insights during sales calls. It analyses conversations and meeting data to improve sales performance, deal execution, and forecasting.
PiperAI	Sales & Revenue	Sales Engagement	PiperAI automates CRM updates and sales tasks, providing transcription, note-taking, and follow-up assistance to help sales teams focus on closing deals efficiently.
Reply.io	Sales & Revenue	Sales Engagement	Reply.io is a marketing and sales automation tool.
Perlon AI	Sales & Revenue	Sales Engagement	Perlon AI is an AI-native outbound platform that builds custom-trained AI models for each customer to generate personalised outreach across email, LinkedIn, phone, and voice channels. The platform unifies contact data, multichannel sending infrastructure, and campaign workflows so teams can run outbound sequences without switching tools.
Outcraft	Sales & Revenue	Sales Engagement	Outcraft AI operates as an autonomous sales development platform that initiates instant multi-channel outreach to incoming leads through automated phone calls, text messages, and email. The software connects directly with existing customer relationship management software to qualify prospects, schedule sales meetings, recover failed payments, and automate user onboarding workflows.
Sendr	Sales & Revenue	Sales Engagement	Sendr is an AI-powered sales engagement and outreach platform that helps teams automate prospecting, personalise communication, and streamline outbound sales workflows.
FirstTouch	Sales & Revenue	Sales Engagement	FirstTouch is a software platform that integrates social engagement and LinkedIn outreach directly into CRM workflows and AI agent pipelines. The platform automates prospect discovery, activity tracking, and multi-channel campaign management while maintaining data logging and human approval gates.
asgard.ai	Sales & Revenue	Sales Engagement	-
Autobound	Sales & Revenue	Sales Engagement	Autobound is an AI-powered B2B sales platform that helps users to create personalised sales emails quickly.
Cluely	Sales & Revenue	Sales Engagement	Cluely is a desktop-based AI assistant that overlays real-time, context-aware prompts during virtual meetings and sales calls. It captures screen content and audio input to deliver AI-generated responses without detection. The tool supports over 50 languages with accent-aware tuning and integrates with platforms like Zoom.
ColdIQ	Sales & Revenue	Sales Engagement	ColdIQ is a platform for automating sales prospecting using AI and software tools. It facilitates the setup and management of outbound campaigns, including email infrastructure, audience research, data enrichment, and campaign optimisation. The platform enables personalised messaging at scale and offers sales system implementation and consulting services.
Crono	Sales & Revenue	Sales Engagement	Crono is an AI-powered Sales Outbound Platform that aims to enhance outbound sales efforts. It offers features like multichannel strategy design, performance monitoring through internal reports and analytics, and integrations with CRM, LinkedIn, and email.
CustomerIQ	Sales & Revenue	Sales Engagement	Built as a cloud-hosted AI coordination engine, CustomerIQ captures email, chat, meeting, survey, ticket, and transcription inputs (JSON, text, audio) via connectors (Gmail, Outlook, Zoom, Slack) and extracts conversation metadata (questions, pain points, objections). It auto-generates follow‑up emails, CRM updates (e.g., Salesforce field writes), and task reminders.

Method

About this dataset

This AI market map covers 1,689 AI products, from AI-native tools to AI-embedded software and hyperscalers, ranked by how often companies buy and renew them over the last 12 months. Anthropic/Claude ranks ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT as of 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC. Updated monthly.

Measure: Share of all software purchases and renewals on Cledara
Window: Trailing 12 months, through October 2026
Classification: AI-native, AI-embedded, hyperscaler
Updated: 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Frequently asked questions

What are the most popular AI tools in 2026?

Anthropic/Claude, OpenAI/ChatGPT and Google Workspace are the most-purchased AI tools on Cledara over the last 12 months, as of 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC. See the top-20 ranking above.

Which AI tool do companies buy most?

Anthropic/Claude is the most-purchased AI tool, ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT, with 12.3% of all software purchases on Cledara over the last 12 months.

Is Claude or ChatGPT more popular with businesses?

Anthropic/Claude ranks higher in business purchases over the last 12 months, as of 23 October 2026, 01:14 UTC. See the full Claude vs ChatGPT comparison for spend and overlap data.

How many AI tools does the map cover?

The map covers 1,689 AI products across 13 categories, from model providers and AI coding tools to AI features inside established software. It is updated monthly as new AI tools reach business buyers.

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.

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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 licence.

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