AI tools market insights
What the catalogue says about the market, and what we measure for every listing. Updated daily.
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Listings per category
Number of tools we list in each category.
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| Category | Listings |
|---|---|
| Productivity | 188 |
| Coding | 88 |
| Video | 31 |
| Image | 28 |
| Writing | 24 |
| SEO | 12 |
| AI Agents | 4 |
| Meeting AI | 4 |
| AI Audio | 3 |
| Personal AI | 3 |
Free-tier share by category
Share of listings in each category that offer a free tier.
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| Category | Share | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| AI Agents | 100% | 4 of 4 listings |
| Meeting AI | 100% | 4 of 4 listings |
| AI Audio | 100% | 3 of 3 listings |
| Productivity | 72.9% | 137 of 188 listings |
| Image | 71.4% | 20 of 28 listings |
| Writing | 70.8% | 17 of 24 listings |
| Coding | 68.2% | 60 of 88 listings |
| SEO | 58.3% | 7 of 12 listings |
| Video | 51.6% | 16 of 31 listings |
| Personal AI | 33.3% | 1 of 3 listings |
Editorial rating spread
How the 385 listings distribute across rating bands (median 3.5).
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| Rating band | Listings |
|---|---|
| < 3.0 | 94 |
| 3.0–3.4 | 88 |
| 3.5–3.9 | 127 |
| 4.0–4.4 | 62 |
| 4.5+ | 14 |
How current our data is
Coverage and freshness across all listings.
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| Category | Listings | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Review verified in the last 7 days | 93 | 24% of listings |
| Review verified in the last 30 days | 145 | 38% of listings |
| Vendor pricing page fetched in the last 7 days | 189 | 49% of listings |
| Listings with prices on record | 97 | 25% of listings |
Vendor pages are only counted when our job could fetch and read them.
Entry prices by category
Lowest paid monthly plan per listing, among listings with prices on record. Shown only for categories with at least three priced listings.
| Category | Priced listings | Lowest | Median | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | 39 of 188 | $4.99 | $20 | $999 |
| Coding | 13 of 88 | $8 | $20 | $49 |
| Video | 9 of 31 | $10 | $20 | $29 |
| Image | 11 of 28 | $9 | $12 | $20 |
| Writing | 5 of 24 | $12 | $29 | $69 |
| SEO | 6 of 12 | $24 | $49 | $249 |
| AI Agents | 4 of 4 | $9 | $19.5 | $20 |
| Meeting AI | 4 of 4 | $16.99 | $18.5 | $29 |
| AI Audio | 3 of 3 | $6 | $19 | $20 |
| Personal AI | 3 of 3 | $7 | $10 | $29 |
Only 97 of 385 listings have prices on record today, so these ranges describe those listings, not the whole market. The daily vendor check is steadily adding more.
What we measure for every listing
If you are a vendor with a listing on WireTensors, every listing page shows an "Insights" section built from the facts below. It goes beyond what a visitor sees at a glance, and every figure is computed from our catalogue, not estimated.
- Rating position: rank and percentile among the listings in your category.
- Alternatives: how many other listings sit in your category.
- Pricing position: free-tier availability against the category, and entry price against the category median where prices are on record.
- Price changes: any change to your listed price in the last 30 days.
- Coverage: how many best-of guides and head-to-head comparisons include you.
- Freshness: when your review was last verified, and when we last fetched your pricing page.
- Regional coverage: Southeast Asian languages, payment methods and data-residency notes, where we have researched them.
How this is calculated
- Visits = first-party count of review-page views; outbound clicks = clicks on the "Visit" links, both recorded by our own server (not a third-party tracker), daily, excluding known bots and visitors who send Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. Countries are Cloudflare's two-letter code for the request; referrers are the external site hostname only. Counts start on the date shown and are not estimates.
- Category = the primary category on the listing. "Alternatives" = other listings in the same category.
- Rating rank = 1 + the number of listings in the category with a strictly higher editorial rating (ties share a rank). Percentile = share of the other listings in the category rated lower.
- Entry price = the lowest monthly price above zero in the listing's recorded pricing tiers. Only listings with recorded tiers are priced; price rank and percentile are shown only when the category has at least three priced listings.
- Free tier = the listing's free_tier flag. Share = listings with a free tier divided by listings in the category.
- Price moves = changes in the listing's price history, in the last 30 days, where an earlier price existed.
- Verified = the listing's last_verified date. Vendor page checked = the last date our daily job fetched the vendor's pricing page (only for pages it can read).
- Everything here is computed from the catalogue by a script with no AI step and regenerated on every daily run.
What we do not show yet
First-party counts recorded by our own server since 2026-11-09 (the last 5 days are covered). They exclude known bots and crawlers and visitors who send Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, so they are lower than raw server hits. We store no IP addresses, cookies or user agents. Conversion and revenue figures are not shown, and we never publish estimated traffic as if it were measured.