Ranked: Most Popular AI Tools by Monthly Site Visits

Kayla Zhu
2025-03-24 10:41:00
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Most Popular AI Tools as of January 2025

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT continues its reign as the internet’s artificial intelligence tool of choice, not only among generative AI models but across all AI tools.

As ChatGPT’s sees a slight dip in its monthly site visits, competitors like China’s DeepSeek are rapidly gaining traction.

This visualization ranks the most popular AI tools based on monthly site visits as of January 2025, using data from Aitools.xyz.

Which AI Tools Had the Highest Monthly Traffic in January?

Below, we show the 15 most popular AI tools by monthly site visits in January 2025, and their monthly change in visits.

Rank	Tool	Category	Monthly Visits	Monthly change
1	ChatGPT	Chat	4.7B	-2.1%
2	Canva	Image	887M	-9.4%
3	Google Translate	Translation	595M	-7.7%
4	DeepSeek	Chat	268M	2026.0%
5	Character.AI	Chat	226M	1.9%
6	JanitorAI	Chat	200M	24.0%
7	Perplexity	Search	133M	-3.6%
8	Gemini	Chat	118M	-9.2%
9	Remove.bg	Image	112M	-3.3%
10	Claude	Chat	105M	-1.1%
11	Microsoft Copilot	Chat	101M	-17.1%
12	Duolingo	Education	96M	1.8%
13	DeepL Translate	Translation	90M	9.6%
14	Grammarly	Writing	89M	-9.3%
15	QuillBot	Writing	57M	-10.8%

ChatGPT remains the most widely used AI tool, with 4.7 billion monthly site visits—far surpassing all other platforms.

No other AI tool exceeded 1 billion monthly visits in January. Coming in at second was Canva, which integrates AI-powered design and image editing features using OpenAI’s model, and recorded 887 million visits.

Chinese AI company DeepSeek saw a massive surge in traffic, ranking 4th overall with 268 million visits, following the open-source release of its reasoning model in January, which led to a 2,026% increase in site visits.

In March, Chinese search engine Baidu announced two versions of their new foundational model, Ernie, which the company claims is “on par with DeepSeek R1 at only half the price.”

As new players enter the market across the world, the AI craze show no signs of slowing down. Last year, a third of global VC funding went towards AI startups.

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