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{
  "study": "The State of AI Browser Extensions 2026",
  "crawl_date": "2026-07-14",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "universe": {
    "query": "AI",
    "item_type": "extension",
    "total": 39241,
    "with_min_100k_users": 215,
    "broad_host_access": {
      "all": 11054,
      "all_pct": 28.2,
      "tier_100k": 136,
      "tier_100k_pct": 63.3
    },
    "collects_data": {
      "all": 21412,
      "all_pct": 54.6,
      "tier_100k": 136,
      "tier_100k_pct": 63.3
    },
    "top_categories_all": [
      {
        "category": "productivity/tools",
        "count": 19038
      },
      {
        "category": "productivity/workflow",
        "count": 6037
      },
      {
        "category": "productivity/developer",
        "count": 3480
      },
      {
        "category": "productivity/education",
        "count": 2581
      },
      {
        "category": "productivity/communication",
        "count": 1844
      }
    ]
  },
  "rating_contrast": {
    "first_party_lab_avg": 3.45,
    "first_party_lab_range": [
      2.71,
      3.83
    ],
    "frontier_lab_chat_agent_avg": 3.26,
    "third_party_aggregator_avg": 4.81,
    "third_party_aggregator_range": [
      4.69,
      4.92
    ],
    "group_gap_stars": 1.36,
    "worst_case_gap": {
      "lab": "Claude",
      "lab_rating": 2.71,
      "aggregator": "Sider",
      "aggregator_rating": 4.92,
      "gap": 2.21
    },
    "zero_distribution_overlap": true
  },
  "privacy_top30": {
    "broad_host_access": 24,
    "collects_data": 25,
    "of": 30
  },
  "labs_with_no_first_party_extension": [
    "Google (Gemini)",
    "Microsoft (consumer Copilot sidebar)",
    "xAI (Grok)",
    "Mistral",
    "DeepSeek"
  ],
  "notes": "Aggregate-only. User counts are Chrome's bucketed install values, not exact. rating = mean star score; rating_count = number of reviews (far smaller than installs). q='AI' is a keyword token match over the store."
}