{"name":"The AI Tools AI Engines Read Most","source":"RightAIChoice","url":"https://rightaichoice.com/research/most-read-ai-tools","license":"CC BY 4.0","as_of":"2026-10-22","edition":"2026-10-01","temporal_coverage":"2026-09-23/2026-10-22","headline":"315 of 8,222 tracked AI tools were each read 100+ times by AI engines in the last 30 days, with the most-read tool page in the 5,000+ band and crawlers from 9 AI companies doing the reading.","summary":["When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity which tool to use, the assistant fetches pages to answer. This report shows which tool pages those engines fetched most over the window — an early-warning signal of what AI assistants are about to recommend.","Counts are published as bands, never exact figures, and tools under the reporting floor are left out entirely. The signal is which tools are being read, not a leaderboard of precise numbers.","Window: the 30 days ending October 22, 2026. \"AI-engine reads\" = answer-engine indexing plus live user-triggered fetches; model-training crawls are counted separately and are not in the ranking."],"tables":[{"title":"Which AI tools did AI engines read most in the last 30 days?","note":"Reads of a tool's page by answer-engine indexers and live user-triggered fetches (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and others), shown as bands. Training-corpus crawls are excluded. Tools below the reporting floor are not listed.","columns":["Rank","Tool","Category","AI-engine reads (band)"],"rows":[[1,"Locus Robotics","Robotics & Physical AI","5,000+"],[2,"Presto Voice","Restaurant & Hospitality","5,000+"],[3,"Temporal AI","Agent Frameworks & Orchestration","5,000+"],[4,"Spider Cloud","Web Scraping & Search APIs","1,000+"],[5,"Truleo","Data & Analytics","1,000+"],[6,"Surge AI","Data Labeling & Training Data","1,000+"],[7,"Poke (Interaction Co.)","Productivity","1,000+"],[8,"Praktika","Language Learning","1,000+"],[9,"Splice","Stock & Design Assets","1,000+"],[10,"Voyage AI","Vector Databases & Retrieval","1,000+"],[11,"Chili Piper","Sales Prospecting & Outbound","1,000+"],[12,"CodaMetrix","Healthcare Revenue Cycle","1,000+"],[13,"Gem","HR, Recruiting & Payroll","1,000+"],[14,"StoryFile","AI Avatars & Talking Video","1,000+"],[15,"The New Black","Image Generation","1,000+"],[16,"Polycam","3D Generation & Scanning","1,000+"],[17,"Isomorphic Labs","Drug Discovery & Life Sciences","1,000+"],[18,"Bitsgap","Investing & Market Research","1,000+"],[19,"ScreenplayIQ","Fiction & Screenwriting","1,000+"],[20,"Adobe Firefly Services","Image Generation","1,000+"],[21,"GeologicAI","Construction & Field Service","1,000+"],[22,"Weglot","Translation & Localization","1,000+"],[23,"Cognition AI","Autonomous Coding Agents","1,000+"],[24,"Guesty","Real Estate & Property","1,000+"],[25,"Letterhead","Email Marketing & Newsletters","1,000+"],[26,"LANDR Mastering","Audio Editing & Production","1,000+"],[27,"Bito","Code & Development","1,000+"],[28,"Transfix","Supply Chain & Logistics","1,000+"],[29,"Bürokratt","AI Assistants","500+"],[30,"Cryptohopper","Investing & Market Research","500+"],[31,"Nectar Energy","Business Intelligence","500+"],[32,"RapidSOS","Threat Detection & SOC","500+"],[33,"Push Security","Threat Detection & SOC","500+"],[34,"Poolside AI","Code & Development","500+"],[35,"QOVES","Computer Vision","500+"],[36,"AudioEye","Design & UI","500+"],[37,"Versatile","Construction & Field Service","500+"],[38,"Writer","Writing & Content","500+"],[39,"Genspark","AI Assistants","500+"],[40,"Soniox","Transcription & Speech-to-Text","250+"],[41,"Hi Marley","Insurance","250+"],[42,"Sublime Security","Threat Detection & SOC","250+"],[43,"Retell AI","Voice AI Agents & Phone Automation","250+"],[44,"n8n","Automation & Agents","250+"],[45,"Air AI","Supply Chain & Logistics","250+"],[46,"Voiceitt","Voice & Speech","250+"],[47,"Surfer AI","SEO Content Writing","250+"],[48,"HeyGen","AI Avatars & Talking Video","250+"],[49,"Claude","AI Assistants","250+"],[50,"Chatlyn","Restaurant & Hospitality","250+"],[51,"Exa","Web Scraping & Search APIs","250+"],[52,"Runway Gen-4","AI Video Generation","250+"],[53,"Fusion 360","3D Generation & Scanning","100+"],[54,"Opus Clip","Short-Form & Faceless Video","100+"],[55,"Hedra Character-3","AI Video Generation","100+"],[56,"ChatGPT","AI Assistants","100+"],[57,"Pieces for Developers","Notes & Knowledge Management","100+"],[58,"Firecrawl","Web Scraping & Search APIs","100+"],[59,"Replit Agent","AI App & Website Builders","100+"],[60,"Runtm","Agent Memory & Runtimes","100+"],[61,"EverBee","Ecommerce & Retail","100+"],[62,"Groq","GPU Cloud & Model Inference","100+"],[63,"Loora","Language Learning","100+"],[64,"ElevenLabs","Voice & Speech","100+"],[65,"AssemblyAI","Transcription & Speech-to-Text","100+"],[66,"Undermind","Research & Education","100+"],[67,"Elicit","Research & Education","100+"],[68,"Alloy","Fraud, KYC & Identity","100+"],[69,"Cursor","Autonomous Coding Agents","100+"],[70,"Speak","Language Learning","100+"],[71,"LangChain","LLM Observability & Evals","100+"],[72,"GETASAP","Supply Chain & Logistics","100+"],[73,"Descript","Video & Audio","100+"],[74,"Superhuman","Email & Inbox Management","100+"],[75,"Suno","Music Generation","100+"],[76,"APIMaster","LLM Gateways & Model Routers","100+"],[77,"Greptile","Code Review & Quality","100+"],[78,"Kagi","AI Assistants","100+"],[79,"Lindy","Productivity","100+"],[80,"Zapier","Automation & Agents","100+"],[81,"Publer","Social Media Management","100+"],[82,"Juno","Healthcare","100+"],[83,"Latent","Healthcare Revenue Cycle","100+"],[84,"Appsmith","AI App & Website Builders","100+"],[85,"Cantina","AI Companions & Character Chat","100+"],[86,"Otter.ai","Meeting Assistants & Notetakers","100+"],[87,"Composio","MCP Servers & Agent Tooling","100+"],[88,"Litmaps","Research & Education","100+"],[89,"HumanLayer","Code & Development","100+"],[90,"Tavus","AI Avatars & Talking Video","100+"],[91,"TalkPal","Language Learning","100+"],[92,"Reclaim.ai","Calendar & Scheduling","100+"],[93,"Tavily","Web Scraping & Search APIs","100+"],[94,"Arden","GRC & Compliance Automation","100+"],[95,"Lovable","AI App & Website Builders","100+"],[96,"SciSpace","Research & Education","100+"],[97,"Harvey","Contracts, E-Signature & Legal","100+"],[98,"Netlify","Developer Infrastructure","100+"],[99,"Notable","Healthcare Revenue Cycle","100+"],[100,"AfterQuery","Data Labeling & Training Data","100+"]]},{"title":"Which categories do AI engines read most?","note":"Sum of reads across every tool in the category, as a band, with the number of tools in the category that individually cleared the reporting floor.","columns":["Category","Tools","Tools above the floor","AI-engine reads (band)"],"rows":[["Automation & Agents",586,20,"10,000+"],["Image Generation",574,14,"10,000+"],["Agent Frameworks & Orchestration",389,20,"10,000+"],["Code & Development",457,22,"10,000+"],["Voice AI Agents & Phone Automation",210,13,"10,000+"],["AI Video Generation",443,17,"10,000+"],["Data & Analytics",358,10,"10,000+"],["Productivity",272,22,"10,000+"],["Developer Infrastructure",214,9,"10,000+"],["AI Assistants",191,16,"10,000+"],["Supply Chain & Logistics",107,6,"10,000+"],["Autonomous Coding Agents",222,19,"10,000+"],["Sales Prospecting & Outbound",267,9,"10,000+"],["3D Generation & Scanning",145,9,"5,000+"],["Voice & Speech",236,10,"5,000+"],["Document Q&A & Summarizing",267,"fewer than 5","5,000+"],["AI App & Website Builders",225,13,"5,000+"],["Browser & Computer-Use Agents",115,5,"5,000+"],["Transcription & Speech-to-Text",170,11,"5,000+"],["Writing & Content",256,5,"5,000+"],["Customer Support",252,"fewer than 5","5,000+"],["Research & Education",228,9,"5,000+"],["AI Governance & Guardrails",194,11,"5,000+"],["Business Intelligence",201,6,"5,000+"],["Photo Editing & Enhancement",245,"fewer than 5","5,000+"],["AI Avatars & Talking Video",116,7,"5,000+"],["Video & Audio",192,10,"5,000+"],["Healthcare",150,11,"5,000+"],["Music Generation",170,"fewer than 5","5,000+"],["CRM",113,6,"5,000+"],["Investing & Market Research",104,"fewer than 5","5,000+"],["Business & Finance",183,"fewer than 5","5,000+"],["LLM Observability & Evals",186,7,"5,000+"],["Short-Form & Faceless Video",157,7,"5,000+"],["Social Media Management",169,5,"5,000+"],["Ad Creative & Media Buying",150,6,"5,000+"],["Agent Memory & Runtimes",139,6,"5,000+"],["MCP Servers & Agent Tooling",185,"fewer than 5","5,000+"],["Translation & Localization",101,5,"5,000+"],["Notes & Knowledge Management",142,"fewer than 5","5,000+"],["Audio Editing & Production",105,"fewer than 5","5,000+"],["Local & On-Device AI",134,5,"5,000+"],["Ecommerce & Retail",165,"fewer than 5","5,000+"],["GPU Cloud & Model Inference",114,7,"5,000+"],["Computer Vision",144,"fewer than 5","1,000+"],["Everyday Life",154,"fewer than 5","1,000+"],["Meeting Assistants & Notetakers",108,7,"1,000+"],["Marketing & SEO",151,6,"1,000+"],["Market & Competitive Intelligence",131,"fewer than 5","1,000+"],["AI Digital Workers",112,"fewer than 5","1,000+"],["LLM App Frameworks & SDKs",136,"fewer than 5","1,000+"],["Graphic Design",143,"fewer than 5","1,000+"],["Presentations & Slides",105,"fewer than 5","1,000+"],["Chatbot Builders",128,"fewer than 5","1,000+"],["Study Tools",120,"fewer than 5","1,000+"],["Multi-Model AI Chat",110,"fewer than 5","1,000+"],["Document AI & Data Extraction",116,"none recorded","1,000+"],["Fun Photo & Video Apps",145,"fewer than 5","1,000+"]]},{"title":"Which AI companies' crawlers are reading tool pages?","note":"Named crawlers that fetched tool pages in the window, with the operator and what the fetch feeds. Bands only.","columns":["Crawler","Operator","What it feeds","Tool-page reads (band)"],"rows":[["oai-searchbot","OpenAI","builds the index ChatGPT search answers from","10,000+"],["exasearchbot","Exa","AI search API that agents and LLM apps query","10,000+"],["gptbot","OpenAI","model training crawler","10,000+"],["amazonbot","Amazon","feeds Alexa answers","10,000+"],["perplexitybot","Perplexity","index crawler","10,000+"],["bytespider","ByteDance","LLM training crawler","10,000+"],["claudebot","Anthropic","Claude training and index crawler","10,000+"],["reflectionbot","Reflection AI","model-lab crawler","10,000+"],["youbot","You.com","answer engine crawler","5,000+"],["meta-webindexer","Meta","web index behind Meta AI answers","5,000+"],["chatgpt-user","OpenAI","A ChatGPT user asked, and ChatGPT fetched our page live","500+"],["claude-user","Anthropic","A Claude user asked with web search on, and Claude fetched our page live","100+"]]}],"methodology":["Every request to the site is classified by crawler identity (user agent, verified where the operator publishes IP ranges) and purpose. Per tool and per day, the number of reads by AI-search and AI-user-fetch crawlers is stored in crawler_tool_daily.","This report sums reads per tool over the 30 days ending on the newest ingested day (October 22, 2026), ranks published tools, and converts each sum to a band inside the database so the raw number is never exported.","The crawler table reads crawler_traffic_daily for tool-page fetches by crawlers classed as AI search, AI user-fetch or AI training, and maps each crawler to its operator using the site-wide crawler taxonomy.","Reporting floor: 100 reads. Categories with at least 100 published tools are listed."],"sources":["crawler_tool_daily","crawler_traffic_daily","tools","categories / tool_categories","lib/observability/crawler-names.ts (crawler taxonomy)","SQL function research_most_read()"],"variables":[{"name":"band","description":"AI-engine reads in the window, as a band: 100+ | 250+ | 500+ | 1,000+ | 5,000+ | 10,000+"},{"name":"rank","description":"Position by reads in the window (ties broken alphabetically)"},{"name":"crawler","description":"Crawler name per the site crawler taxonomy; operator derived from it"}]}