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AI in Kenya — which tools does it prefer?

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

76.3%
ChatGPT — the leader
of Kenya’s AI searches
7.5%
Claude — runner-up
rank #2 in Kenya
7.5%
Claude
the pick beyond ChatGPT
18
tools with signal
of 26 tracked · this week

Kenya’s AI-tool searches go first to ChatGPT — 76.3% of the country’s AI search interest this week, versus 74.4% for ChatGPT worldwide (+1.9pp above the global figure). Claude is second at 7.5%, and beyond ChatGPT the local favourite is Claude (7.5%). 18 of the 26 tracked tools register measurable interest here. 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 ranking

every tracked tool, ranked by Kenya’s preference

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

all 26 tools in Kenya — baked in daily

#toolcompanyshare in Kenyaglobal
1ChatGPTOpenAI76.3%74.4%
2ClaudeAnthropic7.5%4.1%
3GeminiGoogle7.2%9.6%
4DeepSeekDeepSeek3.6%2.1%
5GrokxAI1.8%2.1%
6Meta AIMeta0.9%1.1%
7PerplexityPerplexity0.5%0.3%
8NotebookLMGoogle0.4%1.6%
9SunoSuno0.3%0.3%
10QwenAlibaba0.3%0.7%
11Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft0.2%0.3%
12Character.AICharacter0.2%0.9%
13ElevenLabsElevenLabs0.2%0.5%
14KimiMoonshot AI0.2%0.1%
15ReplitReplit0.2%0.2%
16Janitor AIJanitorAI0.1%0.5%
17Leonardo.AiCanva0.1%0.2%
18PoeQuora0.1%0.0%
19MidjourneyMidjourney0.0%0.2%
20GitHub CopilotGitHub0.0%0.2%
21CursorAnysphere0.0%0.2%
22RunwayRunway0.0%0.2%
23SoraOpenAI0.0%0.1%
24MistralMistral AI0.0%0.0%
25LumaLuma AI0.0%0.0%
26VeoGoogle0.0%0.2%

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.

02 · the timeline

how Kenya’s preferences moved

daily share per tool from the snapshot archive. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts — history accumulates from Jul 7, 2026.

03 · momentum

1d / 7d / 30d moves in Kenya

which tools are gaining and losing ground here. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.

faq

questions people ask about AI in Kenya

Which AI is most popular in Kenya?

ChatGPT — it takes 76.3% of Kenya's AI-tool search interest this week; Claude is second at 7.5%. Shares measure relative Google search interest — preference, not usage counts.

Which AI does Kenya prefer beyond ChatGPT?

Claude: setting ChatGPT aside, it is Kenya's strongest AI preference at 7.5% of the country's AI-tool searches — rank #2 overall.

How does Kenya compare with the rest of the world?

ChatGPT's share in Kenya is 76.3% versus 74.4% worldwide — 1.9pp above its global figure. The full 26-tool ranking above is rebuilt every day from fresh Google Trends data.

slice it yourself: Kenya in the compare deep-dive · developer scene: Kenya on the adoption map · raw history: series/KE.json.