Updated July 2026 · generated from live data

AI Tools Statistics: 24 numbers you can cite

Every statistic below is computed from RightAIChoice’s continuously re-verified catalog of 7,989 AI tools, or from our original Product Hunt Graveyard survival study (n=2,291, downloadable dataset). Nothing is estimated or copied from other reports. Free to cite with a link to this page.

Market size & freshness

  1. 1.RightAIChoice tracks 7,989 published AI tools across 15+ major categories. [live catalog]
  2. 2.2,511 tools (31.4%) were re-verified within the last 7 days — the catalog cycles continuously rather than being a static list. [live catalog]
  3. 3.0 new AI tools entered the catalog in the last 30 days alone. [live catalog]
  4. 4.Automation & Agents is one of the largest AI-tool categories, with 1,797 tools (22.5% of the catalog). [live catalog]
  5. 5.Productivity is one of the largest AI-tool categories, with 1,205 tools (15.1% of the catalog). [live catalog]
  6. 6.Developer Infrastructure is one of the largest AI-tool categories, with 1,176 tools (14.7% of the catalog). [live catalog]
  7. 7.Code & Development is one of the largest AI-tool categories, with 1,098 tools (13.7% of the catalog). [live catalog]
  8. 8.Research & Education is one of the largest AI-tool categories, with 913 tools (11.4% of the catalog). [live catalog]

Pricing

  1. 9.70.8% of AI tools are free or freemium — most of the market can be tried without paying. [live catalog]
  2. 10.53.4% of AI tools use a freemium pricing model (4,264 tools). [live catalog]
  3. 11.17.5% of AI tools use a free pricing model (1,396 tools). [live catalog]
  4. 12.16.4% of AI tools use a contact pricing model (1,312 tools). [live catalog]
  5. 13.12.7% of AI tools use a paid pricing model (1,017 tools). [live catalog]

Survival & churn (original research)

From the Product Hunt Graveyard study — we probed the live website of 2,291 top Product Hunt launches from 2023–2025. Full methodology and downloadable dataset linked below.

  1. 14.24.4% of top Product Hunt launches from 2023–2025 are already dead — domain gone, parked, or 404 (as of July 2026). [Graveyard study]
  2. 15.Another 4.5% of top launches now redirect to a different company — roughly 28.9% are gone as independent products. [Graveyard study]
  3. 16.AI products die at almost exactly the same rate as non-AI products: 24.5% vs 24.4%. [Graveyard study]
  4. 17.A top-5 launch-day finish cuts a product's death rate roughly 3× — 9% vs 25.9% for rank 6 and below. [Graveyard study]
  5. 18.Writing tools are the deadliest launch category at 45.2% dead; open-source products die least at 8.9%. [Graveyard study]
  6. 19.Products launched in 2025 are already 20% dead after roughly a year — most product deaths happen within the first 1–2 years. [Graveyard study]
  7. 20.41.7% of currently-live AI tools (3,334 of 7,989) have at least one dead external link — documentation and resource rot sets in well before products die. [live catalog]

Viability & momentum

  1. 21.Across 7,989 scored tools, the average viability score is 82/100. [live catalog]
  2. 22.86.1% of AI tools score as "strong" viability (70+), while 0.1% are rated at-risk (below 40). [live catalog]
  3. 23.7 tracked AI tools have public GitHub repositories, holding 603,106 combined stars. [live catalog]
  4. 24.The most-starred AI tool in the catalog is LangChain with 142,327 GitHub stars. [live catalog]

How to cite these numbers

Cite as: RightAIChoice, “AI Tools Statistics” (July 2026) — https://rightaichoice.com/state-of-ai-tools/statistics. Catalog statistics regenerate from the live database (the “updated” date above is real); survival statistics come from the Graveyard study with per-product evidence and a CC BY 4.0 dataset. Methodology: rightaichoice.com/methodology.