Popularity ranking · South Africa

The 16 most popular Generative AIs in South Africa

This curated ranking covers the 16 largest generative ais in South Africa, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Chat GPT, Grok and Gemini lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 3.3M people. Across all 16 entries the average audience size is 343k, and the largest, Chat GPT, reaches around 1.5M people in South Africa. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in South Africa who actively engage with each generative ai, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across South Africa and are refreshed weekly.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 16, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in South Africa who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in South Africa. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in South Africa, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in South Africa. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Chat GPT 1.5M 34.1 42.7% Generative AI
2 Grok 1.1M 38.5 42.3% Generative AI
3 Gemini 797k 35.5 39.8% Generative AI
4 Claude 523k 37.5 54.0% Generative AI
5 DeepSeek 502k 34.5 41.0% Generative AI
6 OpenAI 430k 34.5 53.1% Generative AI
7 Perplexity 208k 34.8 41.1% Generative AI
8 ElevenLabs 160k 39.0 49.8% Generative AI
9 N8N 87k 35.9 42.9% Generative AI
10 Midjourney 82k 34.5 47.8% Generative AI
11 Zapier 54k 37.4 48.0% Generative AI
12 Airtable 39k 36.3 47.9% Generative AI
13 DALL-E 25k 36.1 46.8% Generative AI
14 DeepL 14k 34.2 64.1% Generative AI
15 Jasper AI 10k 36.2 47.2% Generative AI
16 Google AI Overview 874 37.1 55.2% Generative AI

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular generative ais compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across South Africa and ranks each generative ai by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest generative ai in South Africa?

Chat GPT currently leads with an estimated audience of 1.5M people in South Africa.

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