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how much of the world’s AI attention goes to Character.AI — tracked daily across 87 countries.
Character.AI (Character) holds 0.9% of global AI-tool search interest this week — rank 8 of 26 tools tracked, down 0.1pp over the last 30 days. It is not yet a top-2 choice in any of the 87 tracked countries. Its strongest market is Ukraine, where it takes 4.0% of AI-tool searches. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.
updated 2026-10-05 · search-share data through Oct 2, 2026 · refreshed daily
01 · the trend
weekly, 2025-10-05 → 2026-09-27. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.
headlines from official sources, last 60 days; chips show how search share and attention moved in the 7 days after each — correlation, not causation. the full feed is the wire.
02 · momentum
share moves from daily snapshots. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts — snapshot history accumulates from Jul 7, 2026.
03 · where it’s strongest
share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.
| # | country | share of AI searches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇺🇦 Ukraine | 4.0% |
| 2 | 🇦🇷 Argentina | 2.5% |
| 3 | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan | 2.5% |
| 4 | 🇷🇺 Russia | 2.4% |
| 5 | 🇵🇱 Poland | 2.3% |
| 6 | 🇨🇱 Chile | 1.7% |
| 7 | 🇲🇽 Mexico | 1.5% |
| 8 | 🇺🇸 United States | 1.5% |
| 9 | 🇦🇺 Australia | 1.3% |
| 10 | 🇷🇴 Romania | 1.3% |
share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts. country links open that country’s full AI-preference page. updated 2026-10-05.
04 · attention
daily Wikipedia pageviews for “Character.ai” — a full year of public curiosity. source: Wikimedia Pageviews API.
faq
Ukraine shows the strongest Character.AI preference of the 87 countries tracked: 4.0% of its AI-tool search interest goes to Character.AI, versus 0.9% globally. Next come Argentina (2.5%) and Kazakhstan (2.5%). This measures share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.
Not globally: ChatGPT holds 74.4% of AI-tool search interest this week versus Character.AI's 0.9%. There is no tracked country where Character.AI out-searches ChatGPT right now.
0.9% this week — rank 8 of the 26 AI tools tracked. Over the last 30 days its global share moved -0.1pp. Shares are anchor-normalized Google search interest, so the 26 tools sum to roughly 100% per country.
Roughly flat: -0.1pp over the last 30 days, holding 0.9% of AI-tool searches. The tracker refreshes daily, so this answer updates with the data.
compare Character.AI against all 26 tools on the race chart, or head back to the tracker hub.
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