Which AI Products Shut Down in 2026? The AI Graveyard, by Market

How many AI products shut down in 2026?

Based on FalcoScan data updated 18 October 2026, 8 AI products shut down so far in 2026, across five markets, and another 13 were acquired. Coding, Video and Image lost the most, two each. The whole of 2025 saw 14, so 2026 is running behind it for now. Every entry below links to a published source or, where the site simply went dark, to the Internet Archive's last working copy. The full list is in the table, product by product.

Which AI products shut down in 2026?

Every product FalcoScan has verified as shut down so far in 2026, A to Z. A market name opens that market's page; a product name opens its FalcoScan record, which keeps the evidence; the source column opens the article or archive capture that proves it.

"Last seen" is the Internet Archive's last working capture, shown where that is the evidence. Source: FalcoScan's AI Graveyard (data updated 18 October 2026).

Which AI markets lost the most products in 2026?

Shut-downs and acquisitions so far in 2026 by market, with how many products FalcoScan has tracked in each market and its all-time shut-down rate. A market can lose products two ways, and the table keeps them apart: a shut-down is a product that is gone, an acquisition is one that changed hands.

Tracked counts every product FalcoScan has listed in the market, running or not. The all-time rate is shut-downs as a share of tracked. Source: FalcoScan's AI Graveyard (data updated 18 October 2026).

How does 2026 compare with earlier years?

The whole of 2025 saw 14, so 2026 is running behind it for now. The table runs back through every year with a dated record. A year is the year a product shut down or was sold; products whose end date is not established are left out of it.

Source: FalcoScan's AI Graveyard (data updated 18 October 2026).

How old were the AI products that shut down?

Of the 8 AI products that shut down so far in 2026, eight have a recorded founding year. The median age at shutdown is undefined years, and 38% were founded in 2023 or later, which is the cohort that launched into the first wave of general-purpose models.

By funding stage, the shut-downs so far in 2026 break down as bootstrapped two, growth stage two, series a two, public company one and seed one. A stage is the last one FalcoScan recorded before the product closed.

Three of this year's shut-downs had been bought first: Continue (bought by Cursor), Ready Player Me (bought by Netflix) and Unscreen (bought by Canva in 2021). A purchase is not a guarantee that a product keeps running.

How does FalcoScan decide an AI product is dead?

A product enters the AI Graveyard as shut down in one of two ways: a published source says it closed, or its website is gone or parked today and the Internet Archive shows it working before, with no running product sharing that website and no public company keeping it as a feature. Every entry links to a published source. A product that renamed itself, or that still runs under a new owner, is not counted as dead. Catalog listings of the same product are merged, so the counts here are products, not listings. The method is set out on the AI Graveyard page and in the methodology. This page is rebuilt from the latest refresh, and the date at the top is the date of the data it used.

Where can you dig into the shut-downs?

The AI Graveyard holds every verified shut-down and acquisition with its evidence, and the 2026 page answers the year's questions in one place. For the other half of this year's story, read which AI companies got acquired in 2026, and for the buyers behind those deals, who is buying AI startups. The market that lost the most this year has its own page: every Coding product. The frozen report what died and where it went keeps a reference reading, and the Pulse carries what moved this week.

Buyers who later closed a product have their own pages: Cursor, Canva.

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