How Many AI Agents Are There in 2026?
A current count of the products in FalcoScan’s Agents market, what the count includes, and how the market breaks down by momentum, pricing, funding and status, plus how many products elsewhere call themselves AI agents.
25 September 2026 · 7 min read · Data updated 25 September 2026
How many AI agents are there?
Based on FalcoScan data updated 25 September 2026, there are 380 AI agent products still operating in FalcoScan’s Agents market, the fourth largest of the 29 markets it tracks. That counts every catalog entry filed under Agents that has not shut down or been acquired; they come from 227 distinct websites, since some companies are listed more than once. Counting the 29 that have shut down and the two that were acquired, FalcoScan has tracked 411. Outside that market, another 129 operating products use the phrase “AI agent” in their tagline.
What counts as an AI agent on FalcoScan?
On this page an AI agent is a product listed in FalcoScan's catalog under its Agents market. Each product sits in exactly one market, so a product that acts as an agent for, say, support or finance work can be filed under that market instead, and is not counted here. FalcoScan counts catalog entries, and a company can have more than one: the 380 operating products come from 227 distinct websites. The most entries at a single address is seven, at flowiseai.com.
Operating means the product has not shut down and has not been acquired. Shut-down and acquired products stay in the tracked total and are counted separately, which is why the two headline numbers differ.
How many products outside the Agents market call themselves AI agents?
To count agents filed elsewhere without guessing, this page uses one defined test: an operating product whose own tagline contains the phrase “AI agent” or “AI agents”. Inside the Agents market, 133 of the 380 operating products pass it. Outside it, 129 more do, from 125 distinct websites, spread across 18 markets and led by Support (19), Finance (17) and Automation (14). The phrase covers products that are agents and products built for teams running agents, so it measures how products describe themselves, not a count of agents.
Number of operating products (not shut down or acquired) in each FalcoScan market whose tagline contains “AI agent” or “AI agents”, counted as catalog entries. Eight more markets hold 21 between them. A snapshot of the current catalog, not a trend. Source: FalcoScan catalog, data updated 25 September 2026.
How does the Agents market compare in size with other AI markets?
Agents holds 5.2% of the 7,276 operating products across all 29 markets. The largest, Coding, has 432.
Number of operating products (not shut down or acquired) in each FalcoScan market, counted as catalog entries. A snapshot of the current catalog, not a trend. Source: FalcoScan catalog, data updated 25 September 2026.
What momentum do AI agents have?
Products in the Agents market are more likely than the average product to carry a hot momentum label. Of those with a label, 57% are marked hot and 29% rising, against 31% and 48% across the catalog. None is marked declining.
Share of active products (not shut down) carrying each momentum label, as a percentage of those with a label: 359 in Agents, 7,112 across the catalog. Momentum is an editorial label, not a measured growth rate. A snapshot of the current catalog, not a trend. Source: FalcoScan catalog, data updated 25 September 2026.
How are AI agents priced?
Paid-only products are rarer here than across the catalog. Of products in the Agents market with a known pricing model, 18% are free, 59% freemium and 24% paid, against 8%, 49% and 43% across the catalog. In all, 74% of active products in the Agents market are recorded as having a free tier.
Share of active products (not shut down) on each pricing model, as a percentage of those with a known model: 369 in Agents, 7,278 across the catalog. Freemium means a free plan alongside paid ones. A snapshot of the current catalog, not a trend. Source: FalcoScan catalog, data updated 25 September 2026.
How are the companies behind AI agents funded?
Seed-stage companies are behind the most products in the Agents market: 29% of those with a known funding stage, against 16% across the catalog.
| Funding stage | Agents products | Share in Agents | Share in catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bootstrapped | 55 | 14.4% | 17.1% |
| Pre-seed | 24 | 6.3% | 4.2% |
| Seed | 109 | 28.6% | 16.3% |
| Series A | 103 | 27.0% | 26.3% |
| Series B | 1 | 0.3% | 3.3% |
| Series C | 6 | 1.6% | 1.4% |
| Series D+ | 1 | 0.3% | 1.2% |
| Growth | 49 | 12.9% | 17.7% |
| Public | 33 | 8.7% | 12.7% |
| Acquired | 0 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
Funding stage of the company behind each active product, as a percentage of those with a known stage: 381 of 382 in Agents, 7,439 across the catalog. A snapshot of the current catalog. Source: FalcoScan catalog, data updated 25 September 2026.
How many AI agent products have shut down?
Of the 411 products in the Agents market FalcoScan has tracked, 29 have shut down and two have been acquired. That is a shut-down rate of 7.1%, close to the catalog’s 7.3%.
| Status | Agents products | Share of tracked | Share in catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating | 380 | 92.5% | 90.6% |
| Shut down | 29 | 7.1% | 7.3% |
| Acquired | 2 | 0.5% | 2.0% |
Every product FalcoScan has tracked in Agents (411) and in the whole catalog (8,031), by current status. Source: FalcoScan catalog, data updated 25 September 2026.
How crowded is the AI agent market?
Agents scores 31 out of 100 on saturation, the 17th highest of 29 markets, against a median of 33. Its average opportunity score is 73, above the median market’s 69. Wrapper share, the percentage of its tracked products scoring 60 or more on wrapper risk, is 19.0%, against 2.5% in the median market and 16.5% across all tracked products, a figure pulled up by the few markets where likely wrappers are common.
| Measure | Agents | Median market | Rank of 29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturation (0 to 100) | 31 | 33 | 17th most saturated |
| Opportunity (0 to 100) | 73 | 69 | 10th highest |
| Wrapper share (%) | 19.0% | 2.5% | 8th highest |
Saturation and opportunity are averages across the market's products. Wrapper share is the percentage of its tracked products scoring 60 or more on wrapper risk. The median market is the middle of the 29 markets on each measure. Source: FalcoScan catalog, data updated 25 September 2026.
For every market ranked on these measures, see the most competitive AI markets.
Which AI agents score highest on opportunity?
| # | Product | Opportunity | Momentum | Pricing | Funding stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beam AI | 98 | Hot | Paid | Seed |
| 2 | Devin AI | 98 | Hot | Paid | Growth |
| 3 | Stack AI | 98 | Hot | Freemium | Seed |
| 4 | Agno | 92 | Hot | Free | Seed |
| 5 | Dify.ai | 92 | Stable | Freemium | Seed |
| 6 | Hume EVI | 92 | Hot | Freemium | Growth |
| 7 | PolyAI | 92 | Hot | Paid | Growth |
| 8 | Dust.tt | 91 | Hot | Freemium | Seed |
| 9 | Minion AI | 91 | Hot | Freemium | Seed |
| 10 | Rivet | 91 | Stable | Free | Bootstrapped |
The operating products in the Agents market with the highest opportunity scores, one row per website. Opportunity is a 0 to 100 score from FalcoScan's opportunity model, which weighs addressable demand, competitive saturation and differentiation; it does not measure revenue or users. Source: FalcoScan catalog, data updated 25 September 2026.
What stands out in the AI agent numbers?
Agents has the second highest share of hot momentum labels of the 29 markets: 57% of its labelled active products, against 31% across the catalog.
The companies behind these products are earlier-stage than the catalog’s. Of those with a known funding stage, 35% are pre-seed or seed, against 20% across the catalog.
Even so, Agents is not among the most crowded markets. Its saturation of 31 ranks 17th of 29, below the median of 33, and its average opportunity score of 73 is above the median market’s 69.
Thin products are more common than in most markets. Wrapper share is 19.0%, against 2.5% in the median market: nearly one in five of the products tracked in Agents are likely a layer over someone else’s model.
What does the count mean for builders and investors?
If you are building an agent. Decide which market your buyers will file you under. A product that runs support or finance work competes with that market's products as well as with the Agents market, and Support, Finance and Automation already hold the most products that call themselves AI agents outside it.
If you are sizing the field. Count websites as well as entries. The 380 operating entries in Agents come from 227 distinct websites, so the number of companies competing is closer to the second figure than the first.
How does FalcoScan count AI agents?
Every product in the catalog is filed under one market and carries a momentum label, a pricing model and, where known, the funding stage of the company behind it, plus an opportunity score, a saturation score and a wrapper risk score, each from 0 to 100. Market figures are recomputed from those scores every day. FalcoScan also checks whether each product is still running: a product counts as shut down once it is marked dead, and acquired products are counted separately. Distinct websites are counted by web domain, with subdomains counted under their parent, or by repository or listing for products hosted on GitHub, GitLab, Hugging Face or an app store. This page is rebuilt from the latest refresh, and the date at the top is the date of the data it used.
The phrase test outside the Agents market reads each operating product's tagline, the one-line description it is listed with, and matches “AI agent” or “AI agents” regardless of capital letters. Inside the Agents market it matches 35% of operating products, a guide to how narrow the phrase is.
Where can you explore AI agents?
Every product in the market is listed with its scores on the Agents market page, and the Market Terminal sets Agents against every other market, including Support, Finance and Automation, where most of the agents filed elsewhere sit. For agents that answer and make phone calls, read how many AI voice agents are on the market, and for coding agents, how many AI coding tools there are. The wrapper risk index covers thin products, and who funds AI, and at what stage covers funding across the catalog. For what moved this week, see the Pulse, and for the products with the most momentum each month, the Rising 10.
Questions people ask
How many AI agents are there in 2026?
FalcoScan tracks 380 operating products in its Agents market, based on data updated 25 September 2026. Counting the 29 that have shut down and the two that were acquired, it has tracked 411. The operating products come from 227 distinct websites, because some companies have more than one catalog entry.
Are there AI agents outside the Agents market?
By how products describe themselves, yes. Another 129 operating products in 18 other FalcoScan markets use the phrase “AI agent” in their tagline, led by Support (19), Finance (17) and Automation (14), based on data updated 25 September 2026. Each product sits in one market, so these are not counted in the Agents market.
Is the AI agent market crowded?
Less than most. The Agents market scores 31 out of 100 on FalcoScan’s saturation measure, 17th highest of 29 markets, against a median of 33, based on data updated 25 September 2026.
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Citing these numbers
Every figure here is read from the FalcoScan catalog, and this page refreshes daily. The numbers above are from the data updated on 25 September 2026. When you quote one, quote that date with it.
FalcoScan, “How Many AI Agents Are There in 2026?”, data updated 25 September 2026. https://falcoscan.com/articles/how-many-ai-agents-are-there