AI in Japan — Which AI Do People Prefer? (updated daily)

AI in Japan — which tools does it prefer?

Japan’s whole AI diet, ranked and refreshed daily — every tracked tool’s share of the country’s search interest.

67.4%

ChatGPT — the leader

of Japan’s AI searches

5.7%

Grok — runner-up

rank #2 in Japan

5.7%

Grok

the pick beyond ChatGPT

tools with signal

of 26 tracked · this week

Japan’s AI-tool searches go first to ChatGPT — 67.4% of the country’s AI search interest this week, versus 68.0% for ChatGPT worldwide (-0.6pp below the global figure). Grok is second at 5.7%, and beyond ChatGPT the local favourite is Grok (5.7%). 26 of the 26 tracked tools register measurable interest here. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.

updated 2026-07-23 · refreshed daily

every tracked tool, ranked by Japan’s preference

share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.

all 26 tools in Japan — baked in daily

#	tool	company	share in Japan	global
1	ChatGPT	OpenAI	67.4%	68.0%
2	Grok	xAI	5.7%	2.4%
3	NotebookLM	Google	5.6%	1.5%
4	Gemini	Google	4.9%	10.7%
5	Claude	Anthropic	3.5%	4.8%
6	DeepSeek	DeepSeek	2.4%	2.4%
7	GitHub Copilot	GitHub	1.4%	0.5%
8	Suno	Suno	1.3%	0.5%
9	Kimi	Moonshot AI	1.2%	1.6%
10	Qwen	Alibaba	1.1%	1.1%
11	Microsoft Copilot	Microsoft	1.0%	0.5%
12	Meta AI	Meta	0.8%	1.2%
13	Character.AI	Character	0.6%	1.5%
14	ElevenLabs	ElevenLabs	0.6%	0.5%
15	Midjourney	Midjourney	0.5%	0.5%
16	Perplexity	Perplexity	0.4%	0.5%
17	Cursor	Anysphere	0.3%	0.0%
18	Runway	Runway	0.3%	0.0%
19	Sora	OpenAI	0.2%	0.0%
20	Replit	Replit	0.2%	0.5%
21	Veo	Google	0.2%	0.5%
22	Janitor AI	JanitorAI	0.1%	0.5%
23	Leonardo.Ai	Canva	0.1%	0.0%
24	Mistral	Mistral AI	0.1%	0.0%
25	Poe	Quora	0.1%	0.0%
26	Luma	Luma AI	0.1%	0.0%

share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts. 0.0% means the tool rounds to zero here — not that nobody searches for it. tool links open each tool’s stats page.

questions people ask about AI in Japan

Which AI is most popular in Japan?

ChatGPT — it takes 67.4% of Japan's AI-tool search interest this week; Grok is second at 5.7%. Shares measure relative Google search interest — preference, not usage counts.

Which AI does Japan prefer beyond ChatGPT?

Grok: setting ChatGPT aside, it is Japan's strongest AI preference at 5.7% of the country's AI-tool searches — rank #2 overall.

How does Japan compare with the rest of the world?

ChatGPT's share in Japan is 67.4% versus 68.0% worldwide — 0.6pp below its global figure. The full 26-tool ranking above is rebuilt every day from fresh Google Trends data.