ChatGPT Dominates AI Chatbot Race as Gemini and Claude Follow: Similarweb

SAN FRANCISCO: OpenAI’s ChatGPT continues to dominate the global AI chatbot market, capturing 49.6% of worldwide website and mobile web traffic between April and June 2026, according to the latest data released by Similarweb. The report highlights ChatGPT’s strong lead over competitors as demand for generative AI tools continues to grow across education, business, software development, content creation, and everyday productivity.

According to the report, Google Gemini ranked second with 25.7% of global AI chatbot web traffic, followed by Anthropic’s Claude AI with 10.0%. China’s DeepSeek secured 3.7%, while xAI’s Grok accounted for 2.4%. Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity AI, and Meta AI each recorded 1.5%, with all other AI chatbot platforms collectively making up the remaining 4.5% of web traffic.

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Global AI Chatbot Rankings 2026: ChatGPT Maintains Top Spot

The findings reflect the increasingly competitive AI landscape, where major technology companies are racing to introduce more powerful language models, advanced reasoning capabilities, multimodal features, and enterprise-focused AI solutions. While rivals such as Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, Meta, xAI, and DeepSeek continue to expand their offerings, ChatGPT remains the most widely used AI chatbot by web traffic. However, the report notes that these figures are based only on website and mobile web usage and do not include traffic from native mobile applications or API usage, which could significantly affect the overall market picture.

Global AI Chatbot Web Traffic Share (April–June 2026)

Source: Similarweb (April–June 2026) – Website and Mobile Web Traffic Data.

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