The ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude share race, the fastest-growing AI tools, traffic concentration, categories and countries, plus AI app downloads and in-app purchase revenue.
AI Gateways: Crowded, Leader Gains (Sep 2026)
74 new entrants in twelve months, traffic up 69% against a falling market — and leader OpenRouter gained share rather than losing it, from 37.4% to 49.3%. The breakdown: 21.6% of the growth was carried in by new supply, incumbent demand grew only 32.7%, and China supplies 19.3% of visits — 4.8x its share of the wider market. Full Top 50 included.
WAIC 2026 Shanghai: AI in Four Niche Verticals (July 2026)
Across ~70 booths in the H4 industry-application street, the busiest theme was niche-vertical AI agents — beyond content creation and audio/video generation, there were plenty of products for smart office, research, user-interview and legal work.
GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna) vs Claude Fable 5 & Mythos 5: OpenAI vs Anthropic across 4 Surfaces (July 2026)
OpenAI ships the GPT-5.6 family (Sol / Terra / Luna) exactly one month after Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5.
Global Frontier LLM API Pricing × Token Structure (June 2026)
One ruler for 20 high-traffic frontier LLMs: Chinese models average ~6–9x cheaper than US ones — yet input dwarfs output by tens of times and cache covers 50–94% of input, so the bill is driven by input & cache pricing, not the headline output price. Full price × token-structure table and a cost-formula breakdown included.
Big Tech AI Showdown: OpenAI, Anthropic & Google across 4 Surfaces (May 2026)
One ruler for all three: OpenAI is the scale king (5.57B web visits + 96.4M app downloads, #1 on both charts); Anthropic the growth king (claude.ai +896% YoY, ~10x in a year); Google the matrix king (438 models tracked). Combined web visits hit 9.42B/month, split 59 : 31 : 10 — the pie grows, the cut shifts.
Global AI Tools Traffic Monthly Report (April 2026)
Global AI-tool visits held flat (+0.03% MoM) in April; only General AI and Characters&Fun grew among 12 categories. Claude surged again +34.2% to 823M; ChatGPT dipped for the first time -3.8%; Gemini/ChatGPT ratio broke below 2×; 3D-gen newcomer Meshy.ai crossed 18M visits.
Global AI Tools Traffic Monthly Report (March 2026)
March visits across 19,832 tracked AI sites reached 15.56B (+14.3% MoM); 11 of 12 categories accelerated, Claude doubled to global #4, and Chinese dev-platforms entered the +100% club.