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AI Tool Failure Rate Statistics (2026): 9.5% of 2,718 Tracked Tools | ToolDirectory.AI ToolDirectory.AI · ResearchLive · Updated August 12, 2026 Original research · The AI Graveyard How many AI tools quietly die? We have catalogued 2,718 AI tools. 258 have since shut down or been acquired — a hand-reviewed measure of how fast this landscape turns over. ✦ Measured, not estimated 2,718 Tools tracked 258 Retired & buried 9.5% Mortality rate Key findings Cite these 01 Of the 2,718 AI tools ToolDirectory.AI has tracked, 258 (9.5%) have shut down or been acquired. 02 125 tools shut down outright; 133 were acquired. 03 2025 was the deadliest year on record, with 101 retirements. 04 54.1% of acquired AI tools kept shipping under their own brand; the rest were folded in and sunset. 05 96 distinct companies have acquired at least one tracked AI tool. 06 The category with the most retirements is Developer Tools (34 dead tools). 07 The highest failure rate is in Automotive: 16.1% of tracked tools (5/31) have died. By the numbers As of August 12, 2026 2,718 Tools tracked Active catalog + Graveyard 258 Retired Shut down or acquired 9.5% Mortality rate Share of all tracked tools 125 Hard shutdowns Product offline, team gone 133 Acquired 54.1% kept shipping 2,460 Still active Live in the catalog today Retirements by year deceasedAt 2025 was the deadliest year on record. Counts reflect the year each tool actually wound down — recent years lag, because failures surface months after the fact. 2 '18 1 '19 3 '20 4 '21 5 '22 22 '23 51 '24 101 '25 68 '26 How they died By cause Shut down34.9% · 65 Acquired and sunset32.8% · 61 Domain lapsed28.5% · 53 Abandoned3.8% · 7 Who is buying Consolidation · 96 acquirers 01NVIDIA 8 tools 02OpenAI 7 tools 03Salesforce 4 tools 04Cursor (Anysphere) 3 tools 05Google 3 tools 06Meta 3 tools 07Adobe 2 tools 08Amazon 2 tools 09Calabrio 2 tools 10Cognition 2 tools The Graveyard Where tools go to die Absolute retirements per category. Larger categories naturally bury more. R · I · P 34 Developer Tools buried R · I · P 27 AI Infrastructure buried R · I · P 21 AI Agents buried R · I · P 20 Customer Support buried R · I · P 19 AI Art & Image Creation buried R · I · P 18 AI Content Writing buried R · I · P 18 Marketing & SEO buried R · I · P 16 Productivity buried Which categories fail most Failure rate Share of every tool tracked in a category that has since died. Categories with fewer than 12 tracked tools are excluded so the rate is not noise. Automotive 5 / 31 16.1% E-Commerce 6 / 48 12.5% NSFW 4 / 33 12.1% Coding Assistants 4 / 42 9.5% BI & Analytics 12 / 127 9.4% AI Content Writing 15 / 172 8.7% Customer Support 12 / 138 8.7% Developer Tools 27 / 320 8.4% Cite this report · Open data “Commonly cited AI startup failure figures run 80–90% — but they're estimates. Ours is measured at the product level: 9.5%, hand-verified, and updated as the Graveyard grows.” ToolDirectory.AI, "The State of AI Tool Mortality," August 12, 2026. https://tooldirectory.ai/research/ai-tool-mortality This report and its underlying dataset are free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to ToolDirectory.AI. Dataset (JSON) →Report (Markdown) →Browse the Graveyard → Methodology · How we count Every entry in the Graveyard is read, sourced, and dated by an editor before it lands — we do not auto-scrape, and we do not mark a tool dead just because its domain stops resolving. “Retired” means a hard shutdown or an acquisition; acquired tools that kept shipping under their own brand are tracked separately and are not counted as deaths in the cause and category breakdowns where noted. The mortality rate is the Graveyard count divided by every tool we have ever tracked (active catalog plus Graveyard). It is a floor, not a ceiling: tools we never catalogued and tools that have died but we have not yet confirmed are not included. Numbers regenerate automatically as the registry grows. Questions · FAQ How many AI tools have shut down? ToolDirectory.AI has tracked 2,718 AI tools; 258 (9.5%) have since shut down or been acquired. Of those, 125 were hard shutdowns and 133 were acquisitions. What is the AI tool failure rate? Across every tool we have catalogued, the measured failure rate is 9.5% as of August 12, 2026. This counts both outright shutdowns and acquisitions where the original brand was retired. What is the AI startup failure rate? Commonly cited AI startup failure figures run from 80% to 90%, but they are estimates. Our number is measured at the product level: 9.5% of the 2,718 AI tools we have tracked have already shut down or been acquired — a live, hand-verified floor for the real rate, updated as the Graveyard grows. Landscape-level survivorship over a longer window will read higher. What kills most AI tools — shutdown or acquisition? The most common recorded cause is "Shut down" at 34.9% of retirements with a known cause. Do acquired AI tools survive? 54.1% of acquired AI tools kept shipping under their own brand after the deal; the rest were folded into the acquirer and sunset. How is this data collected? Every Graveyard entry is hand-reviewed, sourced, and dated by an editor — never auto-scraped. The full dataset is available as JSON at /feed/graveyard.json under CC BY 4.0. Newsletter Get the weekly roundup. One email each Friday. The week's additions, the week's deaths, and one thing we changed our mind about. No drip sequences, no AI-generated filler. 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