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Which AI is growing, and which is declining

Market share, public interest, model prices and quality rankings, refreshed every day from public sources.

Last updated 28 October 2026, 15:38. Refreshed automatically once a day from public sources, listed at the bottom.

Biggest shareChatGPT80.5% of AI chatbot referrals
Fastest riser (3 months)Gemini+2.6 points
Biggest faller (3 months)Perplexity-2.4 points
Tools tracked15and growing

Market share over time

Latest complete month: September 2026. The month in progress is left out because partial months are unreliable.

Gemini▲ +3.0 pts
10.9%
Aug 25Sep 26
Perplexity▼ -2.0 pts
5.8%
Aug 25Sep 26
Microsoft Copilot▼ -1.7 pts
1.8%
Aug 25Sep 26
Claude▼ -2.8 pts
1.0%
Aug 25Sep 26
DeepSeek● 0.0 pts
0.0%
Aug 25Sep 26

ChatGPT is far ahead at 80.5% and is left out so the others stay readable. Each chart has its own scale; the change is over the last 3 months.

What this measures: the share of website visits that arrive from each AI chatbot, as counted by StatCounter on sites that use it. It shows which assistants send people to the web. It is not the number of users or the number of chats.

Who is growing and who is declining

ToolReferral share3-month changeShare trendInterest (28 days)Interest trend
ChatGPT80.5%+1.7 pts▲ Growing2,032,003 views+18% ▲ Growing
Gemini10.9%+2.6 pts▲ Growing83,272 views-2% Steady
Perplexity5.8%-2.4 pts▼ Declining62,035 views-8% Steady
Microsoft Copilot1.8%-1.0 ptsSteady35,439 views-1% Steady
Claude1.0%-0.9 ptsSteady172,997 views+15% Steady
DeepSeek0.0%+0.0 ptsSteady89,638 views+11% Steady
GrokNot tracked49,218 views-11% Steady
MistralNot tracked37,000 views+4% Steady
ElevenLabsNot tracked33,429 views+29% ▲ Growing
MidjourneyNot tracked15,864 views+3% Steady
Meta AINot tracked15,404 views0% Steady
GitHub CopilotNot tracked8,429 views-3% Steady
RunwayNot tracked5,463 views+4% Steady
CursorNot tracked4,424 views-20% ▼ Declining
SunoNot tracked2,745 views-24% ▼ Declining

Trend rules: share changes compare the last 3 months with the 3 before (at least 1 point for the bigger tools, a quarter change for small ones). Interest is the last 28 days of English Wikipedia page views against the 28 before (15% or more). Interest rises with news, so treat it as a signal, not a verdict.

Public interest

ChatGPT
2,032,003
Claude
172,997
DeepSeek
89,638
Gemini
83,272
Perplexity
62,035
Grok
49,218
Mistral
37,000
Microsoft Copilot
35,439
ElevenLabs
33,429
Midjourney
15,864
Meta AI
15,404
GitHub Copilot
8,429
Runway
5,463
Cursor
4,424
Suno
2,745

English Wikipedia page views over the last 28 days.

Which models people rate highest

LMArena leaderboard (overall, text), published 22 October 2026. People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.

#ModelMade byScoreVotes
1Gemini 4 Argon (High)Google152610,083
2Claude Opus 5.5 (High)Anthropic151610,322
3Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)Anthropic151316,343
4Claude Opus 5 (Max)Anthropic150834,526
5Claude Opus 5 (High)Anthropic150371,020
6Claude Opus 4.6 (High)Anthropic150183,454
7Muse Wonder (Max)Meta15016,001
8Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)Google149843,997
9Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic149788,206
10Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)Meta149120,506
11MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi14914,067
12Claude Fable 5 (High)Anthropic149144,253

Newest models and what they cost

From the OpenRouter catalogue: 456 models, 19 with a free tier. Prices are in US dollars per million tokens of input and output through the API, not the price of a chat subscription.

ModelAddedContextInput $/1MOutput $/1M
OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Terra Pro26 Oct 20261,050,0001.005.00
OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Terra Pro (batch)26 Oct 20261,050,0000.502.50
OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Terra26 Oct 20261,050,0001.005.00
OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Terra (batch)26 Oct 20261,050,0000.502.50
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 Pro23 Oct 20261,048,5762.0010.00
MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash19 Oct 20261,048,5760.150.60
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 101717 Oct 20261,048,5760.150.60
Elorian: Glimpse17 Oct 2026262,1440.603.00
Reflection: Beam 1.0 501B A23B16 Oct 20261,048,5760.251.00
Inception: Mercury 316 Oct 20261,000,0000.100.35
PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 9B16 Oct 2026262,1440.080.13
Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview15 Oct 202632,0000.302.50

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