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AI Brand Chart: Design tools, edition 2026-w42

5 AI models, 60 buying scenarios, edition 2026-w42, data as of October 17, 2026.

Brand names only: the models saw each option as a brand name, with no product facts, and answered from their own knowledge.

Fast panel: the fast or small current models of each vendor, not the full flagship panel.

Tiers, not strict ranks

How to read this

A position is only the order of the estimates, and arrows show how that order moved since the last edition: brands in one tier cannot be told apart from its leader at 95% confidence, and each rank is an interval. Rails show the conditional pick share (among answers that picked a brand) in shortlists of 4 (chance is 25%).

Changed beyond noise: for this brand alone, the 95% interval of its share change excludes 0. Lineup or panel changes between editions can cause it too, and it is never a rank claim.

Display order since the last edition, not strict ranks. Moves without a badge are within the margin.

  1. 1NewCanvaTier 1, rank 1 to 3New on the chart in this edition.61% (48%–74%)1 week
  2. 2NewAdobe Creative CloudTier 1, rank 1 to 3New on the chart in this edition.59% (46%–72%)1 week
  3. 3NewFigmaTier 1, rank 1 to 7New on the chart in this edition.41% (28%–54%)1 week
  4. 4NewCorelDRAWTier 2, rank 3 to 11New on the chart in this edition.22% (11%–36%)1 week
  5. 5NewVismeTier 2, rank 3 to 11New on the chart in this edition.18% (9%–29%)1 week
  6. 6NewVistaCreateTier 2, rank 3 to 11New on the chart in this edition.16% (6%–29%)1 week
  7. 7NewSketchTier 2, rank 4 to 11New on the chart in this edition.13% (5%–23%)1 week
  8. 8NewPiktochartTier 2, rank 3 to 11New on the chart in this edition.13% (4%–24%)1 week
  9. 9NewPenpotTier 2, rank 4 to 11New on the chart in this edition.12% (6%–22%)1 week
  10. 10NewKittlTier 2, rank 4 to 11New on the chart in this edition.12% (5%–21%)1 week
  11. 11NewLinearityTier 2, rank 4 to 11New on the chart in this edition.8% (3%–16%)1 week