1. Market Overview: Broad Rally Fades, General AI Carries the Market
March's 11-of-12-categories rally reversed completely in April. Rolling up 17,934 products to top-level categories, total visits are nearly unchanged (+0.03% MoM) — but beneath this apparent calm lies massive internal divergence: General AI added +124M visits while the other 10 declining categories shed -118M, nearly cancelling each other out.
General AI now claims 67.8% of all tracked visits — up from 67.1% in March, a further concentration at the top. Writing&Design (-2.8%), Education (-4.2%) and Business (-5.0%) were the biggest decliners, unwinding March's nascent recovery.
2. Top 15 Leaderboard
Ranked by April visits, identical to the default AI-Web product library view. MoM is vs March 2026 (2026-02-28).
| # | Product | Category | Visits | MoM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  ChatGPT chatgpt.com | General AI | 5.51B | -3.8% |
| 2 |  Gemini gemini.google.com | General AI | 2.76B | +6.4% |
| 3 |  Canva canva.com | Writing&Design | 973.4M | -0.8% |
| 4 |  Claude claude.ai | General AI | 823.5M | +34.2% |
| 5 |  DeepSeek deepseek.com | General AI | 411.2M | +17.2% |
| 6 |  iLovePDF ilovepdf.com | General AI | 287.5M | 0.0% |
| 7 |  Grok grok.com | General AI | 279.3M | -14.4% |
| 8 |  NotebookLM notebooklm.google.com | General AI | 247.4M | +11.4% |
| 9 |  Character.AI character.ai | Characters&Fun | 180.7M | -6.1% |
| 10 |  Notion AI notion.so | Productivity | 174.5M | -5.1% |
| 11 |  Doubao doubao.com | General AI | 160.5M | +1.4% |
| 12 |  Perplexity perplexity.ai | General AI | 154.9M | -7.2% |
| 13 |  Microsoft Copilot copilot.microsoft.com | Productivity | 130.0M | +5.0% |
| 14 |  Google AI Studio aistudio.google.com | General AI | 127.3M | -0.5% |
| 15 |  DeepL deepl.com | Programming | 117.8M | -6.3% |
3. Claude Keeps Surging: 823M Visits Closing in on Canva
Following March's +111.4%, claude.ai added another +34.2% in April, growing from 614M to 824M visits — just 150M behind Canva's 973M at #3. At the current trajectory, Claude could overtake Canva in May and become the first non-search AI entry to cross 1B visits.
In absolute terms, Claude gained +210M incremental visits in April — the largest monthly gain in the index (ChatGPT lost -220M in the same period). This is the first time a non-Google product has out-gained ChatGPT in absolute monthly additions.
4. ChatGPT Dips for the First Time, but Scale Advantage Holds
ChatGPT recorded 5.51B visits in April, down -3.8% (-220M). In our tracked data window, this is the first month-over-month decline for chatgpt.com. Note: a single-month -3.8% could be seasonal noise or an early signal that competitive pressure is finally showing up in traffic. The ChatGPT/Gemini ratio narrowed to 2.00× (from 2.21× in March).
Despite the dip, ChatGPT's 5.51B monthly visits still nearly doubles Gemini's 2.76B — absent a sustained slide, this scale advantage provides a durable competitive moat.
5. Gemini Steady Growth: ChatGPT Ratio Dips Below 2×
Gemini grew +6.4% to 2.76B, its third consecutive month of positive growth. The ChatGPT/Gemini ratio fell from 2.53× (Feb) → 2.21× (Mar) → 2.00× (Apr) — breaking below 2× for the first time. If this trend holds, Google gains meaningful enterprise negotiating leverage: a Gemini in the same order of magnitude as ChatGPT fundamentally changes how enterprise buyers think about vendor lock-in.
6. Growth Leaders: Meshy.ai 3D Generation Goes Mainstream
Growth list filters for current-month visits ≥1M and prior-month ≥100K, to filter small-sample noise from new entrants.
| Product | Category | Visits | Prev | MoM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mindstudio mindstudio.ai | Business | 1.8M | 419.9K | +324.6% |
 Chatbot App chatbotapp.ai | Productivity | 7.1M | 2.7M | +158.3% |
 Mintlify mintlify.com | Programming | 1.4M | 618.3K | +125.7% |
 Meshy.ai meshy.ai | Image | 18.1M | 9.2M | +97.8% |
 Geminigen geminigen.ai | Video | 3.1M | 1.6M | +95.1% |
 Xiaomi MiMo mimo.xiaomi.com | General AI | 1.2M | 700.9K | +71.9% |
Claude claude.ai | General AI | 823.5M | 613.7M | +34.2% |
DeepSeek deepseek.com | General AI | 411.2M | 350.8M | +17.2% |
NotebookLM notebooklm.google.com | General AI | 247.4M | 222.2M | +11.4% |
Meshy.ai: 3D Generation Goes Mainstream
Meshy.ai hit 18.1M visits (+97.8%), breaking into the top-3 of the Image category. This is the first time an AI 3D-asset generation tool has reached visible monthly traffic scale — previously this sub-segment was completely overshadowed by 2D image generators. Meshy's core feature is text/image → 3D model conversion, primarily serving game developers and designers. The visit doubling suggests this tool class is crossing from geek community to professional workflow adoption.
Xiaomi MiMo: Chinese On-Device AI Gets Noticed
mimo.xiaomi.com appeared on our growth radar at 1.2M visits (+71.9%) — Xiaomi's developer platform for the MiMo model family. With Xiaomi simultaneously investing in on-device inference, the platform's visit growth reflects the early ecosystem traction of Chinese consumer-hardware companies' "AI Native" strategies.
7. Notable Decliners: Openclaw Halves, Grok Corrects
| Product | Category | Visits | Prev | MoM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Openclaw openclaw.ai | General AI | 14.2M | 28.8M | -50.7% |
 Accio accio.com | Business | 2.8M | 5.2M | -45.5% |
 Kimi moonshot.cn | General AI | 1.5M | 2.6M | -44.2% |
Grok grok.com | General AI | 279.3M | 326.3M | -14.4% |
 Freepik freepik.com | Writing&Design | 95.1M | 107.2M | -11.2% |
Perplexity perplexity.ai | General AI | 154.9M | 166.8M | -7.2% |
Openclaw (openclaw.ai) fell from 28.8M to 14.2M (-50.7%), the steepest decline among mid-tier products this month — its traffic source and product positioning remain unclear, worth monitoring. Accio (cross-border commerce search) -45.5% and Kimi (moonshot.cn gateway) -44.2% both have primary domains supporting their overall traffic, so single-domain drops don't necessarily signal product-level weakness. Grok's -14.4% pullback mirrors March's anomalous surge (jumping from #11 to #6 last month) — more likely a reversion to range than a structural decline. Perplexity's -7.2% continues a mild softening from March.
8. Three Takeaways
- Top-tier consolidation intensifies; Claude is the key wildcard. General AI alone commands 67.8% of all tracked visits; ChatGPT + Gemini + Claude together exceed 56%. Claude's two-month hypergrowth shows the top-tier is far from settled — the "AI gateway" battle is very much ongoing.
- Gemini is entering legitimate head-to-head territory with ChatGPT. The ChatGPT/Gemini ratio fell from 2.53× to 2.00× in three months — not linear extrapolation. Gemini's enterprise penetration, Android distribution, and rapid model capability catch-up are all compressing this gap in concert.
- Vertical categories are producing non-LLM breakout stars. Meshy.ai (+97.8% in 3D generation) and various AI workflow tools demonstrate that the next wave of AI traffic growth isn't purely from general-purpose chat — vertical applications with higher retention and word-of-mouth in professional contexts are carving out real scale.