Updated 14 September 2026. This landscape snapshot analyzes Lorezi’s 865-tool AI software catalog to show how the market represented in our dataset is distributed across categories, access models, platforms and editorial scores.
Scope note: this is an analysis of the Lorezi catalog, not a claim that these 865 products represent every AI tool available worldwide. Category labels, free-plan status, pricing classifications and ratings reflect Lorezi’s structured research dataset as of the update date above.
Key findings
• 865 AI software products are included in the analyzed catalog.
• They span 269 primary category labels.
• 518 tools (59.9%) are recorded as offering a free plan.
• 812 tools (93.9%) are available on the web.
• The three largest primary categories — AI Productivity, AI Coding and AI Software — account for 314 tools (36.3%) of the catalog.
• The median Lorezi editorial rating is 4.36/5.
Category concentration
The catalog is broad, but tool supply is highly concentrated in a small number of primary categories. AI Productivity alone represents 17.6% of the 865-tool dataset.
| Primary category | Tools | Share of catalog |
|---|---|---|
| AI Productivity | 152 | 17.6% |
| AI Coding | 82 | 9.5% |
| AI Software | 80 | 9.2% |
| AI Image | 24 | 2.8% |
| AI Research | 19 | 2.2% |
| AI Writing | 18 | 2.1% |
| AI Agents | 13 | 1.5% |
| AI Marketing | 12 | 1.4% |
The long tail is substantial: after the largest clusters, hundreds of narrower category labels divide the remaining catalog. For buyers, this means broad “AI tools” searches quickly fragment into task-specific decisions; for software teams, it shows how crowded general productivity, coding and broad AI-software positioning have become inside Lorezi’s tracked universe.
Free access is common
518 of 865 tools (59.9%) are marked as offering a free plan. This field is independent from Lorezi’s pricing-model classification: a product may expose some free access while still being categorized as freemium or another commercial model.
Pricing-model classification
| Pricing classification | Tools | Share of catalog |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 290 | 33.5% |
| Freemium | 213 | 24.6% |
| Paid | 106 | 12.3% |
| Custom | 96 | 11.1% |
| Usage-based | 4 | 0.5% |
| Subscription | 1 | 0.1% |
| Missing or unknown | 155 | 17.9% |
Because 155 records have a missing or unknown pricing classification, the table should be read as a catalog snapshot rather than a definitive estimate of pricing-model market share.
Where AI software runs
Web delivery dominates the catalog. Desktop and mobile support are meaningful but far less universal, and platform counts overlap because one product can support several environments.
| Platform | Tools | Share of catalog |
|---|---|---|
| Web | 812 | 93.9% |
| macOS | 192 | 22.2% |
| Windows | 190 | 22.0% |
| iOS | 177 | 20.5% |
| Android | 161 | 18.6% |
| Linux | 120 | 13.9% |
| Chrome | 24 | 2.8% |
| API | 17 | 2.0% |
Lorezi editorial rating distribution
Across all 865 records, the median Lorezi overall rating is 4.36/5. The middle 50% of tools fall between 4.22 and 4.46, while the full observed range runs from 3.05 to 4.82.
| Rating statistic | Score |
|---|---|
| Mean | 4.32 / 5 |
| 25th percentile | 4.22 / 5 |
| Median | 4.36 / 5 |
| 75th percentile | 4.46 / 5 |
| Observed minimum | 3.05 / 5 |
| Observed maximum | 4.82 / 5 |
These are Lorezi editorial scores, not user-review averages or an external industry benchmark. They are useful for understanding the distribution of Lorezi’s evaluated catalog, not for claiming that the global AI-software market has an average quality score of 4.32.
What the dataset suggests
• Discovery is increasingly task-specific. The 269 primary category labels show how quickly broad AI-software discovery branches into narrower use cases.
• Free access is a normal competitive expectation. Nearly six in ten cataloged tools expose a free plan of some kind.
• The browser is the default delivery layer. More than nine in ten tools are web-accessible, while native desktop and mobile availability remain secondary.
• Competition is uneven. Productivity, coding and broad AI-software categories are much denser than most specialist categories in Lorezi’s catalog.
Methodology
This analysis uses Lorezi’s 865-tool structured software dataset as of 14 September 2026. One primary category is counted per tool for the category table. Platform counts are non-exclusive because tools can support multiple platforms. “Offers a free plan” uses Lorezi’s structured free-plan field. Pricing-model counts use the separate pricing classification field and therefore include an explicit missing/unknown group.
Lorezi’s editorial ratings are generated and maintained under the site’s evaluation framework. For more detail on how Lorezi researches and evaluates software, see our methodology.
Explore the underlying catalog
• Visit the Lorezi Research hub
• Explore AI software by category
Cite this analysis
Suggested citation: Lorezi. “AI Software Landscape 2026: 865 Tools Analyzed.” Updated 14 September 2026.
When referencing individual statistics, please attribute them to the Lorezi 2026 AI Software Dataset and link to this analysis after publication.