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746 AI tools analysed: origin on a world map down to city level, categories, free plan rates and entry prices, calculated from sourced vendor data.
Click a continent or country to zoom in. Inside a country you see the headquarters cities and the tools behind them. The colour shows how many tools come from each country.
Source: AI Compare, headquarters per the vendor's legal notice, legal pages or company profile. 641 of 746 tools with a sourced country, 519 of them with a sourced city.
Choose a category in the chart or legend. Below it you see its subcategories and every tool in them.
Source: AI Compare, analysis of 746 catalog entries based on sourced vendor data.
The 15 subcategories with the most tools, coloured by main category.
Source: AI Compare, analysis of 746 catalog entries based on sourced vendor data.
Headquarters by city. Click a city to show it on the world map. Some US vendors list only a registered address as their seat, for example in Wilmington or Dover, Delaware.
Source: AI Compare, headquarters per the vendor's legal notice, legal pages or company profile. 641 of 746 tools with a sourced country, 519 of them with a sourced city.
Distribution of monthly entry prices in US dollars. Median: $20; 46.5% start below 20 US dollars.
Source: AI Compare, US list price of the entry paid plan billed monthly, 217 tools.
Number of sourced plans per tool, including free and enterprise tiers. Median: 4.
Source: AI Compare, analysis of 746 catalog entries based on sourced vendor data.
Tools, free and trial rates plus median and mean monthly entry prices per category.
| Category | Tools | Free plan | Trial | Median price/month | Avg. price/month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | 231 | 54.5% | 19.9% | $19 | $48.40 |
| Development & Code | 157 | 70.1% | 10.8% | $25 | $48.33 |
| Design & Image | 74 | 58.1% | 16.2% | $12 | $16.58 |
| Content & SEO | 73 | 37.0% | 47.9% | $24 | $36.53 |
| Audio & Voice | 59 | 66.1% | 8.5% | $16.49 | $83.22 |
| Media & Video | 57 | 63.2% | 8.8% | $24 | $28.85 |
| Business & Finance | 51 | 35.3% | 27.5% | $99 | $97 |
| HR & Recruiting | 22 | 9.1% | 63.6% | $57 | $104.25 |
| Industry, Construction & Logistics | 12 | 8.3% | 25.0% | - | - |
| Agriculture, Energy & Tourism | 10 | 60.0% | 10.0% | - | - |
Median: the middle value of the sorted prices, resistant to single outliers. Average price (mean): sum of all prices divided by the number of tools.
Source: AI Compare, US list price of the entry paid plan billed monthly, 217 tools.
Every figure is recalculated with each catalog update.
Largest country of origin: United States, with 342 of the 641 tools with a sourced origin (53.4%). The five largest countries of origin together make up 76.9%. Cities with the most headquarters: San Francisco (106), New York (20) and London (18).
Vendors headquartered in Europe account for 169 tools (26.4%). European countries with the most tools: Germany (69), United Kingdom (26) and France (12). The free plan rate of European tools is 41.4%, compared with 54.7% across the catalog.
54.7% of all tools have a permanent free plan, another 20.4% offer only a trial and 15.7% are paid only. The free plan rate is highest in Development & Code (70.1%) and lowest in Industry, Construction & Logistics (8.3%).
The median monthly entry price is $20, the mean $46.76. 46.5% of tools with a monthly price start below 20 US dollars, while 6.5% charge 100 US dollars or more. By median, the most expensive category is Business & Finance ($99) and the most affordable Design & Image ($12).
United States: free plan rate 60.5%, median entry price $20 per month. Europe: free plan rate 41.4%, median entry price $21.50 per month. The figures describe this catalog, not the entire market.
The median tool offers 4 plans. 56.4% of tools have four or more plans, only 11.9% exactly one. For comparisons it therefore pays to look at the matching plan rather than the entry price alone.
The clearest specialisation among the large countries of origin, Germany: 14.5% of its tools belong to HR & Recruiting, compared with 2.9% across the catalog. The heatmap above shows the pattern for all large countries of origin.
The basis is all 746 published tools in the AI Compare catalog. Prices, plans and free offers come from the vendors' official pricing pages. The entry price is the US list price of the entry paid plan; only plans billed monthly are included.
Headquarters come from the vendor's legal notice, legal pages, company register or company profile. The company address stated there counts, not the founders' origin. Tools without a sourced headquarters do not appear on the map.
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Source: AI Compare, AI Pricing Index 2026 (https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/ai-pricing-index)
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