| { |
| "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." |
| } |
