Toolradar Research
Data reports on the state of B2B software.
First-party analyses built from our 10,125-tool catalog across 401 categories. Pricing benchmarks, adoption patterns, free trial norms, category trends. Reviewed by Toolradar editors, methodology published, updated on a quarterly cadence.
Two AI Labs Took 75% of 2026's Software Funding
Software companies raised $272B across 449 rounds in 2026, but OpenAI ($110B) and Anthropic ($95B) took 75% of it. The other 414 companies split a quarter.
Read the reportHow Software Is Priced in 2026: The $18 Median and the $178 Mean
We read the pricing pages of 5,194 software tools that publish at least two plans. The median starts at $18 a month, the mean at $178, and that ten-fold gap explains almost everything about how the market prices itself: 60% of tools start under $25, 51% ship a free tier, and 43% publish exactly three plans.
Read the reportAI for Marketing 2026: AI Writes, It Does Not Yet Send
First-party data on where AI concentrates in the marketing stack. AI is deepest in generative tasks (copywriting 91%, content marketing 63%) and thinnest in operational ones (email marketing 32%): in marketing, AI writes, it does not yet send.
Read the reportAI for Legal 2026: Deep AI, Almost No Free Tier
First-party data on AI in the legal stack. AI is deepest in document work (80% of document automation, 100% of AI-for-legal tools), yet legal is the least-free corner of software: legal practice management offers a free tier in just 3% of tools.
Read the reportAI for Sales 2026: Where AI Concentrates in the Sales Stack
First-party data on where AI concentrates in the sales stack. AI penetration climbs from 39% in general sales tools to 87% in revenue intelligence, and the most AI-heavy layer is also the least free at 18%.
Read the reportAI by Business Function 2026: Which Teams Are Actually Adopting It
First-party data on which business functions have actually adopted AI. Customer Support leads at 66% of tools AI-described, healthcare 60% and HR 54%, while sales (39%) and project management (30%) lag.
Read the reportThe B2B Software Power Law 2026: How Concentrated the Market Really Is
First-party data on how concentrated the B2B software market is. The top 10 categories hold 32% of all tools and the top 25 hold 51%, yet the median category has just 40 tools and 56% have fewer than 50.
Read the reportThe State of AI Agents 2026: What 773 Tools Reveal Behind the $52B Forecast
First-party data on the AI agent market. We track 773 agent tools (45% paid-only, 28% new in 90 days, fed by 228 MCP servers), set against external forecasts of a 53 to 183 billion dollar market by 2030-2033.
Read the reportAI Model Head to Head 2026: Benchmarks vs Adoption
We put the capability leaderboard next to our own adoption data. Claude Opus 5 leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61, but ChatGPT holds 71.9% of the public review corpus and roughly 17 times Claude's review volume. Satisfaction is flat across the field, so reach, not raw intelligence, is deciding this market.
Read the reportThe Fastest-Growing Software Categories 2026: Where New Tools Are Landing
First-party data on which B2B software categories are growing fastest. 1,182 tools entered the catalog in 90 days; AI Agents is the fastest by velocity at 28% new, and three of the five categories adding the most tools are AI.
Read the reportThe SSO Tax Is Real: What 5,191 Software Tools Put Behind Their Top Tier
We analyzed the pricing tiers of 5,191 tools. Security and compliance features (SSO, audit logs, SLAs) are systematically locked to the most expensive plan; the features you use daily are not.
Read the reportThe SaaS Price Points Report 2026: What B2B Software Actually Costs Per Month
First-party data on what B2B software actually charges. Across 6,573 priced tiers, the most common monthly price is $10, the typical entry plan is $19, the median tier is $40, and 29% of prices end in 9. Paired with the pricing-psychology research that explains the anchors.
Read the reportThe AI Everywhere Report 2026: How AI Became a Layer, Not a Category
First-party data on how AI became a layer across B2B software. 47% of 9,960 tools now describe themselves with AI, and it has reached deepest into non-AI categories: NLP 91%, Transcription 90%, Revenue Intelligence 87%, Legal Document Automation 80%.
Read the reportWe Detected 127 Software Price Changes. Half of Them Were Cuts.
Our pricing monitor detected 127 clean price changes across the catalog. The split is almost even (51% up, 49% down), but when tools reprice they move hard: median +22% or -21%.
Read the reportThe Most Crowded B2B Software Markets 2026: Where Buyers Face the Most Choice
First-party data on where B2B software is most crowded. Three of the seven largest categories are now AI (AI Assistants, AI and Automation, AI Agents = 3,039 tools), the average tool has 5.5 direct competitors, and operational verticals like hotel management are the most saturated per tool.
Read the reportThe Free Software Report 2026: Where B2B Software Is Free (and Where It Never Is)
First-party data on which B2B software categories are actually free. 54% of 9,959 tools offer some free access, but it is a developer-tools story: Browser DevTools 100%, AI Coding 88%, while Warehouse Management is 0% and Legal Practice Management 3%.
Read the reportWe Tracked 564,000 Clicks From 730,000 Tech Professionals. Here Is Where Attention Goes.
Across 118 editions of 6 newsletters reaching 730,000 subscribers, we logged 564,000 clicks. Ignoring our own links, readers click news over software tools roughly three to one.
Read the reportThe Software People Actually Research Looks Nothing Like What the Press Covers
121,435 tool-profile views across 10,501 tools show the most-researched software is practical, private, and self-hosted (Nextcloud, Obsidian, Proton Mail), not the AI products that own the headlines.
Read the reportThe Tech Press Covers 7% of Software. AI Eats Half the Coverage.
We tracked 11,506 press mentions across 387 sources and mapped them to 9,960 tools. Only 7% of software gets any coverage, the top 10 tools take half of it, and ChatGPT alone is 22%.
Read the reportWe Analyzed 4.1 Million Software Reviews. Here Is What They Actually Say
An analysis of 4.13 million public reviews behind 6,372 software tools: the average rating, the inflation problem, why the biggest brands are not the highest rated, and the category gap that matters more than any single score.
Read the reportThe MCP Boom: How a Protocol Went From 2 Tools to 228 in Under a Year
MCP went from 2 listings in late 2025 to 228 in our August 2026 catalog, concentrated almost entirely in developer and AI-infrastructure tools and given away for free. We map who is shipping MCP, how fast, at what price, and where it has not landed yet.
Read the reportThe State of AI Software Discovery 2026: What 897,000 AI Search Queries Reveal
We analyzed 897,216 AI citations across 5,363 Bing Copilot grounding queries. One in three came from 'best X' searches and 41% were buying-intent. Here is how B2B buyers actually research software with AI.
Read the reportThe SaaS Press Index 2026: Which Tools Win Coverage in Tech Media
What 6,704 press mentions across 290 publications reveal about SaaS coverage in 2026. ChatGPT pulled 22.6% of all mentions, AI categories took 6 of the top 10 slots, and 95% of indexed tools earned zero press coverage.
Read the reportThe LLM Citation Index 2026: How Software Discovery Actually Works Now
Toolradar receives 95k pageviews/month. 30% from Bing, 24% DuckDuckGo, 16% ChatGPT. Google is 1.5%. The B2B software discovery layer is now LLM-mediated. First-party data on which page types get cited, which LLMs cite which content, and what it means.
Read the reportB2B SaaS Go-to-Market 2026: What 9,024 Tools Reveal About Launch Channels
Most GTM playbooks describe the top 5% of launches. We pulled discovery source + press coverage data on 9,024 B2B SaaS tools. 92% launch with no tracked channel. Product Hunt is freemium-only. Only 25 tools have 100+ press mentions. Real GTM data, not survivorship bias.
Read the reportSaaS Pricing Models 2026: Patterns Across 2,575 Paid Tools
How B2B SaaS actually structures pricing in 2026. Three-tier default (35%), single-tier surprise (19%), per-seat myth busted (only 8%), free trial cadence (14-day modal). First-party data from 2,575 paid tools.
Read the reportState of AI Adoption 2026: What 2,427 AI Tools Reveal
First-party analysis of 2,427 AI tools across 27 sub-categories. The split between vertical AI (70%+ paid, $100+ tiers) and horizontal AI (60%+ freemium, $20-50 anchor). Free trial gap, pricing distribution, top-scored tools. Updated quarterly.
Read the reportB2B SaaS Pricing Benchmarks 2026: What 9,024 Tools Reveal
First-party pricing analysis of 9,024 published B2B SaaS tools. Real distribution of paid vs freemium vs free, starting tier prices, free trial duration norms, and category-by-category breakdowns. Updated quarterly.
Read the reportMethodology
How we build these reports
Every report is built from our internal database of 10,125 published B2B software tools across 401 categories. We extract pricing tiers, trial information, category assignments, and editorial scores directly from each vendor's official site, then verify the data against the vendor's pricing page weekly. Reports update on a quarterly cadence; the "next update" date on each report shows when the data will be refreshed.
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