Cledara records 245 AI platform & ModelOps software products. Anthropic/Claude, OpenAI/ChatGPT and OpenRouter lead the trailing 12-month payment-activity ranking; AI Platform and LLM Providers & APIs have the largest observed spend shares among this category's subcategories. These purchasing signals describe the Cledara customer population, not all businesses or distinct-customer adoption.
245 products • 9 subcategories
Payment activity counts observed purchase and renewal transactions over the trailing 12 months. Activity and spend shares use all software tracked by Cledara as their denominator. These signals describe the Cledara customer population; they do not measure distinct customers, seats or product usage.
Source summary and limitations
The recorded catalogue contains 245 AI Platforms & Model Ops products. Among the displayed products with a 2026-10 activity-rank observation, the ranking starts with Anthropic/Claude, OpenAI/ChatGPT, OpenRouter. Payment activity counts trailing 12-month purchase and renewal transactions in Cledara. Shares use all tracked software as their denominator; activity ranks do not measure distinct customers, seats or product usage. The displayed ranked sample may be smaller than the catalogue; changing coverage and classifications can affect comparisons.
AI platform & ModelOps software ranked by payment activity
Anthropic/Claude leads the current AI platform & ModelOps software ranking, followed by OpenAI/ChatGPT and OpenRouter, among 245 products measured from real company purchases tracked by Cledara rather than surveys or reviews.
Observation: October 2026. Shares use all software tracked by Cledara as the denominator.
#1
Anthropic/Claude
AI-Native
Payment-activity share: 12.3%0
#2
OpenAI/ChatGPT
AI-Native
Payment-activity share: 5.9%0
#29
OpenRouter
AI-Native
Payment-activity share: 0.5%+3
#42
Perplexity AI
AI-Native
Payment-activity share: 0.3%+1
#131
Langsmith by Langchain
AI-Native
Payment-activity share: 0.1%+3
#148
Langfuse
AI-Native
Payment-activity share: 0.1%+8
Which AI platforms subcategories companies spend on most
AI Platform is the largest AI platform & ModelOps software subcategory by spend share at 13.3%, followed by LLM Providers & APIs at 0.4%, across 245 products tracked from real company purchases in Cledara's dataset.
AI platform & ModelOps software spend trends
As of 26 October 2026, UK companies have estimated annualized median spend of £13k for AI platform & ModelOps software, up 488% versus a year ago. The annualized figure is the latest complete month's median multiplied by 12, not a measured trailing-year total.
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Annual activity-rank risers and declining AI platforms signals
Grok and Meshy have the largest measured annual activity-rank gains among the displayed products with both observations. The catalogue records 245 products; they currently rank #177 and #581 by global payment activity in Cledara's latest category data. The gains compare the current month with the same calendar month one year earlier.
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#177
Grok
AI-Native
Payment-activity share: 0.1%+38
Rising Star
#581
Meshy
AI-Native
Payment-activity share: 0.0%+53
Rising Star
#650
Genspark
AI-Native
Payment-activity share: 0.0%+69
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ChitChat
AI-Native
Payment-activity share: Unavailable—
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DetectLanguage
AI-Native
Payment-activity share: Unavailable—
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Clarifai
AI-Native
Payment-activity share: Unavailable—
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AI platform & ModelOps software accounts for 20.5% of trailing 12-month software payment transactions and 14.1% of recorded software spend in the Cledara population. Both shares use the all-software denominator. The catalogue contains 245 products; it does not measure an average company's stack.
Claude is a large language model developed by Anthropic, capable of handling text, voice messages, and documents to facilitate natural language interactions.
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory that conducts research in the field of AI with the stated goal of promoting and developing friendly AI in a way that benefits humanity as a whole.
LangChain is a unified DevOps platform for developing, collaborating, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM applications, offering full visibility into the sequence of calls and supporting all phases of LLM-powered application lifecycle.
Grok is a conversational generative AI service provided through the Grok.com website and mobile applications. The service responds to user prompts and generates outputs based on xAI models.
Databutton is a low-code platform that enables individuals to quickly create and deploy AI applications with ease. The platform introduces a new approach where prompting takes precedence over traditional programming, making it accessible for users to create AI-powered applications.
fal provides a cloud-based platform for running generative-media models and AI inference through APIs. The platform includes tools for generating images, video, audio and 3D outputs, and for deploying and managing custom AI models.
Google One is Google's AI research and development arm, dedicated to creating innovative AI technologies. Leveraging data and machine learning algorithms, Google AI develops systems for pattern recognition, prediction, and content generation, powering features like Google Assistant.
Chatbase is an AI chatbot builder that trains ChatGPT on data and seamlessly integrates a chat widget into websites, empowering the chatbot to respond to queries.
Cohere is an AI platform specializing in large language models (LLMs), that allows developers to utilize pre-built LLMs for performing various tasks on text input, with a focus on enterprise-level applications.
Modal provides a serverless platform tailored for machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) teams. It allows users to execute various tasks such as running generative AI models, large-scale batch jobs, job queues, and more without the need of managing infrastructure.
xAI is an artificial intelligence tool, with its primary product, Grok. An AI chatbot integrated with the X platform, designed to answer a wide range of questions and assist users in various tasks.
Exa provides an AI-driven search engine and API that delivers content retrieval using embeddings-based search. It offers features like semantic understanding of queries, instant content retrieval, and similarity search to enhance AI applications.
BytePlus offers enterprise-level tools that enable companies to use machine learning, data intelligence, customer data platforms, AR, video/live streaming and personalization to build digital experiences or deploy AI models. It supports the full workflow from data collection and model training to deployment and inference, plus tools for customer data unification and live-interactive content.
Agentic provides autonomous AI agents that connect to tools, APIs and data sources to automate workflows and complete complex tasks for teams and organizations.
BASE44 is an AI-powered, no-code platform that enables users to create fully functional applications by describing their requirements in natural language. It addresses the complexity of traditional software development by automating tasks such as database setup, authentication, and API integration. The platform offers built-in solutions for data storage, user management, and analytics, eliminating the need for manual configuration of services like Supabase or SendGrid.
Meshy is an AI-powered 3D modeling platform that enables users to transform text prompts or 2D images into high-quality 3D models and animations. It offers features like text-to-3D conversion, image-to-3D transformation, texture generation, and animation tools, catering to game developers, designers, and creators seeking efficient 3D content creation.
LlamaIndex is a data framework that connects custom data sources to large language models (LLMs), enabling ingestion, indexing, and querying of structured and unstructured data for AI applications.
Dust is a platform designed for businesses to create customizable AI assistants using their internal knowledge base. These assistants help streamline workflows and provide access to relevant information, boosting team productivity and collaboration.
GenSpark is an AI-powered search platform that uses a multi-agent system to generate real-time, customized summaries called Sparkpages. These pages consolidate information from various sources, providing users with synthesized, unbiased, and interactive responses to their queries.
Cerebras builds specialized computing systems and cloud services for running artificial intelligence workloads. Its hardware, including the CS-2 and CS-3 systems, is based on the Wafer Scale Engine, a processor designed to handle very large neural networks. These systems are used for tasks such as training and deploying language models and processing large datasets. Cerebras also provides cloud-based access to the same technology, allowing organizations to use its infrastructure without installing the hardware on-premise.
Requesty provides an API platform that routes requests to multiple large-language-model providers through a single interface. It enables customers to manage usage, logging, performance, and data handling across LLMs.
Tavily is a search API designed for AI applications (LLMs), providing accurate, real-time information retrieval to reduce hallucinations and optimize decision-making.
Weaviate is a cloud-native vector search engine that allows developers to build and deploy machine learning models for natural language processing (NLP) and other AI applications. It offers powerful search capabilities, enabling users to explore and analyze unstructured data efficiently.
Replicate.com provides a platform for running, fine-tuning, and deploying open-source and custom AI models with minimal coding effort. It hosts a variety of models from the community, making them accessible for production use through APIs. The service targets AI development across several domains, such as image, text, and video generation.
TypeSafe provides AI-powered infrastructure and tooling focused on evaluating, testing, and improving the reliability and safety of large language model applications. It helps teams monitor model behavior, run experiments, and build more trustworthy AI systems.
Cassidy.ai is an AI-powered automation platform that integrates with over 100 tools, enabling businesses to automate tasks such as customer support triage, lead qualification, and RFP processing. It addresses challenges in managing repetitive tasks by providing AI assistants and workflows that utilize company-specific data.
Qdrant is a vector similarity search engine designed to store, search, and manage vectors with additional payload, facilitating neural network or semantic-based matching, faceted search, and other applications.
Fireworks AI is a platform that enables users to create, customize, and deploy generative AI models for various applications, including generating images and text. The platform is designed to support the technical aspects of AI integration, focusing on the functionality and deployment of AI within products.
Comfy is the home of the ComfyUI ecosystem which includes an open-source visual AI workflow engine and a cloud service called Comfy Cloud that runs these workflows via browser with cloud compute. The platform enables users to build, execute and manage generative AI workflows for images, videos and other media without requiring local installation.
Z.ai provides a conversational interface that processes text and image inputs through large language models to generate technical content and automated workflows.
Confident AI offers a cloud-based platform for evaluating Large Language Model (LLM) applications, addressing the need for systematic benchmarking and performance monitoring. It enables users to curate datasets, define evaluation metrics, and conduct experiments to assess LLM outputs.
NVIDIA AI is a centralized online portal offered by NVIDIA that provides developers with access to software development kits (SDKs), tools, APIs, documentation, training resources, and community support for building GPU-accelerated applications. This includes domains such as AI, graphics rendering, simulation, high-performance computing and more.
Relevance AI provides a platform for building an AI Workforce, which consists of customizable AI agents equipped with tools to handle repetitive business tasks.
Cartesia is a platform that provides real-time, multimodal intelligence, enabling users to generate speech, power voice applications, and fine-tune voice models.
Black Forest Labs is a suite of generative AI models for image and video creation, offering high-quality outputs with advanced editing capabilities and rapid generation speeds.
Moonshot AI provides advanced large-language-model technology (such as its Kimi models) that supports high-capacity text generation, reasoning, and multimodal AI use cases for developers and enterprises. It also offers an AI-powered, no-code conversion-optimization platform that analyzes websites and automatically tests improvements to increase user engagement and revenue.
Nebius is a platform that provides AI-focused infrastructure, offering access to NVIDIA GPUs (H100, H200, L40s) for tasks such as model training and inference. It includes managed services like Kubernetes and Slurm clusters, as well as tools for dataset processing and model management.
Klavis AI is an integration platform for AI specifically a “Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration platform” that enables AI agents/applications to reliably connect to external tools and services at scale.
Cloudmersive offers a suite of cloud-based APIs to automate processes such as file conversion, image recognition, data validation, and security threat detection.
Agenta is an open-source LLMOps platform that provides an end-to-end workflow for building, testing, evaluating, and monitoring large language model (LLM)-powered applications. The platform centralizes prompt management, versioning, evaluation metrics, observability and deployment tools to help teams ship reliable production-grade LLM apps.
Play.ht provides a text-to-speech platform that transforms written text into spoken audio using artificial intelligence. It supports various languages and accents, catering to a range of applications such as audiobooks, podcasts and video voiceovers. Users can input text, choose a voice and language, and adjust pronunciation settings. The platform enables the download of generated audio or its direct embedding into websites and applications.
Cekura automates Quality Assurance for voice and chat AI agents by allowing teams to simulate diverse scenarios with different personas, run pre-production tests, and monitor live conversations. It enables replay of real calls, provides performance metrics such as latency, interruptions, and compliance, and delivers real-time alerts alongside dashboards, helping teams continuously improve the reliability of their AI agents.
Anam provides a platform to build digital personas. The platform enables real-time interaction through AI-generated video interfaces that process inputs and return responses.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the most popular AI platform & ModelOps software in 2026?
Anthropic/Claude leads this category by trailing 12-month payment activity, followed by OpenAI/ChatGPT and OpenRouter. Its 12.3% share is of recorded transactions across all software in Cledara, not a percentage of companies or a within-category share.
How is AI platform & ModelOps software market share measured?
Payment-activity rankings count observed purchase and renewal transactions over the trailing 12 months; spend rankings use observed software spend. Shares use all tracked software as their denominator. Neither activity rank nor activity share measures distinct customers, seats or product usage. Updated monthly; last update 26 October 2026, 20:12 UTC.
Which AI platforms have the largest activity-rank gains?
Grok and Meshy lead the measured 12-month payment-activity rank gains among the displayed ranked products. Comparisons require the current observation month and the same month one year earlier. A gain in rank positions does not establish revenue, customer or usage growth.
How many AI platforms are in this catalogue?
The recorded catalogue contains 245 AI platforms. This is a product count across the catalogue, not the number of tools used by an average company. Products without current observations may remain recorded.
How do the leading AI-platform activity shares compare?
Anthropic/Claude has 12.3% and OpenAI/ChatGPT 5.9% of trailing 12-month transactions across all tracked software. These payment-activity shares do not establish which product receives more spend.
How much do companies spend on AI platform & ModelOps software?
UK companies have estimated annualized median spend of £13k for AI platform & ModelOps software (£4k–£40k interquartile range), based on payments as of 26 October 2026. These category figures multiply the latest complete month's distribution by 12; they are not trailing-year totals. Reported in GBP; EUR and USD available on the page.
