🇿🇦 ZA · ai tracker
South Africa’s whole AI diet, ranked and refreshed daily — every tracked tool’s share of the country’s search interest.
South Africa’s AI-tool searches go first to ChatGPT — 81.4% of the country’s AI search interest this week, versus 68.0% for ChatGPT worldwide (+13.4pp above the global figure). Claude is second at 4.8%, and beyond ChatGPT the local favourite is Claude (4.8%). 22 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
01 · the ranking
share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.
| # | tool | company | share in South Africa | global |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChatGPT | OpenAI | 81.4% | 68.0% |
| 2 | Claude | Anthropic | 4.8% | 4.8% |
| 3 | Gemini | 4.5% | 10.7% | |
| 4 | DeepSeek | DeepSeek | 2.7% | 2.4% |
| 5 | Grok | xAI | 1.8% | 2.4% |
| 6 | NotebookLM | 0.9% | 1.5% | |
| 7 | Character.AI | Character | 0.8% | 1.5% |
| 8 | Perplexity | Perplexity | 0.4% | 0.5% |
| 9 | Microsoft Copilot | Microsoft | 0.4% | 0.5% |
| 10 | Janitor AI | JanitorAI | 0.4% | 0.5% |
| 11 | Suno | Suno | 0.4% | 0.5% |
| 12 | Kimi | Moonshot AI | 0.3% | 1.6% |
| 13 | ElevenLabs | ElevenLabs | 0.2% | 0.5% |
| 14 | Qwen | Alibaba | 0.2% | 1.1% |
| 15 | Replit | Replit | 0.2% | 0.5% |
| 16 | Midjourney | Midjourney | 0.1% | 0.5% |
| 17 | GitHub Copilot | GitHub | 0.1% | 0.5% |
| 18 | Cursor | Anysphere | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| 19 | Leonardo.Ai | Canva | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| 20 | Runway | Runway | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| 21 | Sora | OpenAI | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| 22 | Veo | 0.1% | 0.5% | |
| 23 | Meta AI | Meta | 0.0% | 1.2% |
| 24 | Mistral | Mistral AI | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 25 | Poe | Quora | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 26 | Luma | Luma AI | 0.0% | 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.
02 · the timeline
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
which tools are gaining and losing ground here. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.
faq
ChatGPT — it takes 81.4% of South Africa's AI-tool search interest this week; Claude is second at 4.8%. Shares measure relative Google search interest — preference, not usage counts.
Claude: setting ChatGPT aside, it is South Africa's strongest AI preference at 4.8% of the country's AI-tool searches — rank #2 overall.
ChatGPT's share in South Africa is 81.4% versus 68.0% worldwide — 13.4pp above its global figure. The full 26-tool ranking above is rebuilt every day from fresh Google Trends data.
slice it yourself: South Africa in the compare deep-dive · developer scene: South Africa on the adoption map · raw history: series/ZA.json.