Top 50 Gen AI Web Products

Surprising trends in how people are using AI

Here are the top 50 Gen AI web products based on unique monthly visits (according to Similiar Web and a16z).

Of course we all expected ChatGPT to be at the very top of the list.

But here’s what’s interesting… keep reading..

  1. Not only has Google’s Gemini climbed the ranks to now 2nd place BUT it now has FOUR Products in the top 50 AI tool list! This includes: Gemini, Google AI studio, Notebook LM and Google Labs.

  1. China’s AI products are booming - With 9 products built in China:

    • DeepSeek (#3) – Chatbot/search hybrid, huge global traction

    • Quark (#9) – Alibaba’s AI-powered browser & assistant, popular in China

    • Doubao (#12) – ByteDance’s chatbot, China-only but massive scale

    • Kimi (#17) – Startup chatbot

    • Qwen3 (#20) – Alibaba’s open-source large language model

    • SeaArt.AI (#19) – Image generator community from China

    • Hailuo.AI (#36) – AI video generator

    • Kling.AI (#32) – Another Chinese AI video generator

    • Adot (#35) – Chinese-built AI product

    Also noteably - 3 of them are mainly serving China alone yet still made its way to the top 50 list (includes Quark #9, ByteDance’s Duobao #12, Kimi #17)

  2. AI Builders are creating their own new tribe of “Vibe Coders” - Everyday people are using AI to build AI apps with no coding experience. For example Lovable, Replit, and off the back of this databases (for the back end of AI apps) like Supabase are piggy backing off this trend

  3. Top 20% are “AI companions” - One of the biggest use cases of consumer AI right now is simply providing company as a friend, roleplating or romance bots like Character.ai, JanitorAI, SpicyChat, CrushOn, Candy.AI, JuicyChat and Joi

  4. Consistently, these 14 “All Stars" have been in the Top 50 list over the last 2 years since this list was created! Coming from just 5 countries we have:

  • U.S. - ChatGPT, Character.ai, Gamma, Midjourney, Perplexity, Poe

  • UK - Eleven Labs, Veed

  • Australia - Leonardo

  • China - Cutout Pro

  • France - Photoroom, HuggingFace

Which of these AI tools do you use regularly? Did any of these shock you?

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