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OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT may be the world\u2019s most popular chatbot app. But rival services are gaining, according to data from analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower.<\/p>\n
SimilarWeb, which estimates traffic to websites including chatbot web apps, has recorded healthy recent upticks in usage across bots like Google\u2019s Gemini<\/a> and Microsoft\u2019s OpenAI-powered Copilot<\/a>. Gemini\u2019s web traffic grew to 10.9 million average daily visits worldwide in March, up 7.4% month-over-month, while daily visits to Copilot increased to 2.4 million \u2014 up 2.1% from February.<\/p>\n Similarweb reports that Anthropic\u2019s Claude<\/a> reached 3.3 million average daily visits in March, and Chinese AI lab DeepSeek\u2019s chatbot eclipsed 16.5 million visits<\/a> that same month. Meanwhile, xAI\u2019s Grok, which only gained a web app several months ago, averaged the same number of daily web visits as DeepSeek\u2019s chatbot: 16.5 million.<\/p>\n The numbers pale in comparison to ChatGPT<\/a>, which surged past 500 million weekly active users in late March. Yet David Carr, editor at Similarweb, noted that there\u2019s fierce competition for the No. 2 chatbot spot.<\/p>\n \u201c[F]or March, DeepSeek is in second place, despite seeing traffic drop 25% from where it was in February, based on daily visits,\u201d Carr told TechCrunch. \u201cChina\u2019s DeepSeek came out of nowhere in January, but the AI platform with the greatest momentum at the moment is Grok from Elon Musk\u2019s xAI, with traffic up nearly 800% month-over-month.\u201d<\/p>\n AI companies\u2019 mobile chatbot apps have been growing their user bases, too, perhaps fueled by recent AI model releases.<\/p>\n According to metrics from app data analysis company Sensor Tower, the Claude app saw a 21% week-over-week increase in weekly active users during the week of February 24, when Anthropic released its latest flagship AI model Claude 3.7 Sonnet<\/a>. Two weeks prior, shortly after Google made its Gemini 2.0 Flash<\/a> model generally available, the number of Gemini app weekly active users grew by 42%. <\/p>\n Abraham Yousef, senior insights analyst at Sensor Tower, attributed the rising tides not only to new models, but new capabilities, as well. Just this past month<\/a>, Google brought a \u201ccanvas\u201d feature to Gemini that lets users preview the output of coding projects, and Anthropic has steadily added tools<\/a> to its Claude client.<\/p>\n \u201cThe rollout of popular new AI models, heightened consumer interest in the space, the introduction of various new features and functions, and the growing number of unique use cases has propelled user growth for AI chatbot apps,\u201d Yousef told TechCrunch. <\/p>\n But OpenAI probably isn\u2019t panicking yet. Yousef pointed out that ChatGPT had 10x mobile app weekly active users compared to Gemini and Claude combined as of March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n