AI shopping assistant: reviews, statistics and news
Assistants that help people find, compare and buy, and the store-side assistants shops install to do the same for their customers: product search, comparisons, price checks, cart and checkout help. Each one will be given the same twenty shopping tasks, as a shopper or on my test store, and tested on result quality, product facts and prices, comparisons, checkout actions, speed, privacy and what it costs.
Every AI shopping assistant I follow
Every AI shopping assistant I follow, in alphabetical order. None has been through my bench yet: each one is queued for the nine tests, and the first reviews appear here as they are finished. The statistics measure 16 of them each month. 17 more listed tools are not measured here: 6 are measured in the category of their main product, 3 sit on shared domains whose traffic is not their own and 8 live on domains whose traffic is mostly another product. Each of those is marked on its card.
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albyalby.comAI customer experience agent for retail sites that answers shopper questions on product pages and handles support, now part of Insider One.Not tested yet
Alexa for Shopping (was Rufus)amazon.comAmazon's shopping assistant, formed by merging Rufus into Alexa+, which researches, compares, tracks prices and buys inside the Amazon app and site.Not tested yetNot measured: shared domain
Algoliaalgolia.comSearch and discovery platform for retailers that includes a conversational AI shopping assistant built on the store's own catalogue.Not tested yetNot measured: domain is mostly another product
Alhena AIalhena.aiShopping assistant, support agent and voice agent for online stores, trained on the store's catalogue and policies.Not tested yet
Altaaltadaily.comAI personal styling and shopping app that builds a digital wardrobe and suggests outfits and purchases around it.Not tested yet
AskTimmyasktimmy.aiAI shopping assistant app for Shopify stores that answers customer questions around the clock and recommends products.Not tested yet
Bloomreachbloomreach.comEnterprise commerce platform whose Loomi conversational agent acts as a shopping assistant on large retail catalogues.Not tested yetMeasured in AI ecommerce agents
ChatGPT shoppingchatgpt.comProduct research and checkout inside ChatGPT, which shows products with prices and can complete a purchase with participating merchants.Not tested yetNot measured: domain is mostly another product
Constructorconstructor.comProduct discovery platform for retailers with an AI shopping agent that finds products from plain-language requests and an agentic checkout.Not tested yetMeasured in AI ecommerce agents
Daydreamdaydream.ingChat-based AI fashion shopping agent that searches more than 10,000 clothing brands from one conversation.Not tested yet
Dialogaskdialog.comBrand-trained AI shopping agent that retailers deploy on their site and inside assistants such as ChatGPT to guide shoppers to products.Not tested yet
Fin (formerly Intercom)fin.aiFin's AI customer agent (Fin was called Intercom until 2026) with an ecommerce mode that guides shoppers through product discovery, cart actions and post-purchase questions on a store's own site.Not tested yetMeasured in AI customer service agents
Gensmogensmo.comAI stylist and shopping app with virtual try-on that finds and styles clothing from a photo.Not tested yet
Google Lenslens.googleGoogle's visual search that identifies products from a photo and shows where to buy them, feeding into Google's AI shopping features.Not tested yetNot measured: domain is mostly another product
Gorgiasgorgias.comHelpdesk and AI agent for Shopify stores with a shopping assistant that answers product questions and recommends items to visitors.Not tested yetMeasured in AI ecommerce agents
iAdvizeiadvize.comFrench conversational commerce platform whose AI shopping assistant answers shoppers in real time and recommends products on retail sites.Not tested yet
Klarna AI assistantklarna.comChat assistant inside the Klarna app that recommends products, compares prices across merchants and lets users buy with Klarna payment options.Not tested yetNot measured: domain is mostly another product
Klaviyo AI Shopping Assistantklaviyo.comShopping assistant inside Klaviyo's customer agent that uses a brand's customer data to recommend products on its store.Not tested yetMeasured in AI marketing automation
Luigi's Boxluigisbox.comSearch and product discovery suite for online stores, including an AI assistant that helps shoppers find products.Not tested yet
Manifest AIgetmanifest.aiAI agents for Shopify, WooCommerce and BigCommerce stores that handle shopping questions and support across chat, email and WhatsApp.Not tested yet
Microsoft Copilotcopilot.microsoft.comMicrosoft's assistant with a shopping mode that compares products and prices from Bing's shopping index.Not tested yetNot measured: domain is mostly another product
Perplexity Shoppingperplexity.aiShopping mode inside the Perplexity answer engine that researches products, compares them with cited sources and can buy from some merchants.Not tested yetNot measured: domain is mostly another product
Phiaphia.comConsumer shopping assistant app and browser extension that compares prices for an item across new and secondhand retailers.Not tested yet
QuickPickquickpick.aiFree AI shopping assistant that asks a few questions and returns a short list of matching products, mostly electronics and home goods.Not tested yet
Rep AIhellorep.aiAI sales and support agent for Shopify stores that engages visitors, answers product questions and recovers abandoned carts.Not tested yet
Salesforce Agentforcesalesforce.comSalesforce's agent platform, used on Commerce Cloud stores as a shopping assistant that answers questions and builds carts.Not tested yetNot measured: shared domain
Shop (Shopify)shopify.comShopify's consumer shopping app with a built-in AI assistant for finding products across Shopify stores and paying with Shop Pay.Not tested yetNot measured: shared domain
ShopSavvyshopsavvy.comFree price comparison app and browser extension that lists a product's price at many stores, with price history and alerts.Not tested yet
Tidio (Lyro)tidio.comLive chat and AI agent for small and mid-sized online stores whose Lyro assistant answers shoppers and suggests products from the catalogue.Not tested yetMeasured in AI agents for websites
TikTok Shopping Assistanttiktok.comConversational shopping agent announced for the TikTok app that answers product, sizing and shipping questions and helps complete a purchase.Not tested yetNot measured: domain is mostly another product
Vettedvetted.aiAI shopping research agent that reads reviews, Reddit threads and expert articles to recommend a product and compares store prices.Not tested yet
Walmart Sparkywalmart.comWalmart's generative AI shopping companion inside the Walmart app that helps customers find and compare products across its range.Not tested yetNot measured: domain is mostly another product
Zoovuzoovu.comProduct discovery platform for B2C and B2B retailers that combines search, guided selling and an AI shopping assistant.Not tested yet
Related categories
Neighbouring categories, and how each differs from AI shopping assistants. A tool is measured in one category only: the one its main product belongs to.
- AI ecommerce agents: Agents for running a store: orders, listings, stock and support.
Data to September 2026
AI shopping assistant statistics and data
AI shopping assistants in numbers, measured every month from named sources; this edition covers September 2026. These pages monitor the AI shopping assistant market with measured data. They are not rankings: RankDude ranks only what it has tested.
- Search visits a month
- 143K
- all tracked AI shopping assistant sites, September 2026
- Visits, year on year
- +54%
- same month last year
- Searches by brand name
- -44%
- United States, vs October 2025
- Forecast, October 2026
- 140K
- range 129K to 152K
Estimated search visits to every measured AI shopping assistant site, worldwide
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Low 50.3KHigh 143KAverage 98.5K
Hover, tap, or use the arrow keys to inspect a month- AI shopping assistant search trendsFive years of interest in AI shopping assistantsGoogle Trends for "ai shopping assistants", worldwide and in the United States, plus the term's search volume in the US and 7 other countries, and where the visitors to tracked sites come from.
- AI shopping assistant demandAre AI shopping assistants growing or shrinking?24 months of search visits to AI shopping assistant sites, brand searches, who grew and who shrank.
- AI shopping assistant industry reportThe September 2026 AI shopping assistant report, to citeMarket size, demand, geography, the largest sites by measured traffic, movers and outlook in one dated document. 1 edition so far; past editions keep their URLs.
- AI shopping assistant monthly analysisThe AI shopping assistant market in September 2026: what the data saysEvery number I track for the AI shopping assistant sites I follow, read as one month. Search visits up 54.4% on a year ago and up 4.6% on the month before, with the Google positions, the demand and who moved.
- AI shopping assistant monthly forecastAI shopping assistant market, October 2026: the month ahead, marked in public140K visits expected, range 129K to 152K. Every past call is scored against what actually happened.
- AI shopping assistant data and toolsEvery AI shopping assistant figure defined, every file downloadableThe AI shopping assistant market and site datasets as CSV with definitions and dates, and a page for each tool behind the numbers: what it measures and what it cannot tell you.
News
What happened in the category, read against the data desk.
More coming to this category
Hands-on reviews, a best-of ranking of the tested tools, head-to-head comparisons and verified coupons are added as each test is finished. Make an AI shopping assistant? Get it on the bench.