AI Graveyard / 2026

AI tools that died in 2026

26 AI tools shut down, were acquired and folded, or had their domains lapse in 2026. Curated by the ToolDirectory.AI editorial team — every entry was a real product listed on the site before its lights went out.

  • Continue
    Continue
    Acquired

    Jun 2026

    Continue was an open-source AI coding assistant and Copilot alternative with extensions for VS Code and JetBrains, and over 34,000 GitHub stars. Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, acquired the project and team. After a final v2.0.0 release around June 18-19, 2026, the repository was made read-only and unmaintained. The Apache-2.0 code remains available but is no longer shipping updates.

    Acquired by Cursor (Anysphere).

    Last known pricing: Free, open source

  • LLM Browser
    LLM Browser
    Domain lapsed

    Jun 2026

    LLM Browser is an antidetect cloud browser for AI agents, with binary-level stealth, built-in CAPTCHA solving, and 600K+ fingerprint presets.

  • Qlip
    Qlip

    Jun 2026

    AI-powered platform for extracting viral video clips for social media.

    Acquired by Livestorm.

  • MarketingCopy AI
    MarketingCopy AI
    Shut down

    May 2026

    marketingcopy.ai returns 4xx; product offline.

  • SwapFans AI
    SwapFans AI
    Shut down

    May 2026

    Hard 404 at root; product taken offline.

  • INK
    INK
    Acquired

    May 2026

    AI-powered SEO assistant for optimized content creation. The product has since been folded into SmythOS; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to smythos.com.

    Acquired by SmythOS.

  • SEO.app
    SEO.app
    Acquired

    May 2026

    AI-driven SEO optimization plugin for ChatGPT. The product has since been folded into SmythOS; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to smythos.com.

    Acquired by SmythOS.

  • Wordmax.ai
    Wordmax.ai
    Domain lapsed

    May 2026

    AI writer for efficient blog and article creation. The site is no longer reachable as of our last health check; we've marked the tool as discontinued.

  • Libretto
    Libretto
    Shut down

    Apr 2026

    libretto.ai returns 4xx; product offline.

  • Forethought
    Forethought
    Acquired

    Mar 2026

    Forethought built enterprise AI agents for customer support, with self-improving automation that resolved tickets across chat, email, and voice. The company raised around $115 million over its life as an independent vendor. Zendesk announced its intent to buy Forethought in March 2026 and completed the deal on March 26, 2026, its largest acquisition in roughly two decades. Forethought now ships as 'Forethought AI Agents by Zendesk' inside the Zendesk Resolution Platform.

    Acquired by Zendesk.

    Last known pricing: Custom enterprise pricing

  • Sora
    Sora
    Shut down

    Mar 2026

    OpenAI officially shut down its Sora AI video generation platform on March 24, 2026, roughly six months after its launch, due to extreme operational costs, declining user interest, and a shift in company strateg

  • Pocus
    Pocus
    Acquired

    Mar 2026

    Acquired by Apollo.io in March 2026; Pocus's GTM-data platform folded into Apollo.

    Acquired by Apollo.io.

  • Synativ
    Synativ
    Shut down

    Mar 2026

    Get your GIS Data right The site is no longer reachable as of our last health check; we've marked the tool as discontinued.

  • Meetz AI
    Meetz AI
    Domain lapsed

    Mar 2026

    Domain no longer resolves.

  • Apex
    Apex
    Domain lapsed

    Mar 2026

    Securely drive AI adoption with visibility, detection, and remediation. The site is no longer reachable as of our last health check; we've marked the tool as discontinued.

  • Crear.ai
    Crear.ai
    Shut down

    Mar 2026

    AI-powered platform for efficient content composition and enhancement. The site is no longer reachable as of our last health check; we've marked the tool as discontinued.

  • Arches AI
    Arches AI
    Domain lapsed

    Mar 2026

    Arches AI: Craft tailored chatbots, train models, and generate AI-based media with ease. The site is no longer reachable as of our last health check; we've marked the tool as discontinued.

  • Neptune AI
    Neptune AI
    Acquired

    Mar 2026

    Neptune.ai was a Warsaw-based MLOps platform for experiment tracking, founded in 2017. OpenAI announced it would acquire the company on December 3, 2025. The hosted SaaS was shut off on March 5, 2026, and remaining hosted data was deleted; the neptune.ai domain now redirects to OpenAI. The tooling continues internally at OpenAI.

    Acquired by OpenAI.

    Last known pricing: Free tier; paid team and enterprise plans

  • Haystacks AI
    Haystacks AI
    Acquired

    Mar 2026

    Optimize real estate investments with AI-driven market intelligence. The product has since been folded into Forty5Park; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to forty5park.com.

    Acquired by Forty5Park.

  • GodMode
    GodMode
    Domain lapsed

    Feb 2026

    GodMode: A powerful suite for developers to access and modify production data safely. The site is no longer reachable as of our last health check; we've marked the tool as discontinued.

  • Contlo
    Contlo
    Domain lapsed

    Feb 2026

    Leading generative AI marketing platform for enhanced customer engagement. The site is no longer reachable as of our last health check; we've marked the tool as discontinued.

  • Manot
    Manot
    Acquired

    Feb 2026

    Pivoted to Feedback Intelligence, then acquired by ActiveCampaign in February 2026.

    Acquired by ActiveCampaign.

  • Trolly AI
    Trolly AI

    Feb 2026

    AI-powered tool for automated product recommendations and customer engagement.

    Acquired by NetusAI.

  • Innkeeper
    Innkeeper
    Domain lapsed

    Jan 2026

    AI for hotel management, optimizing revenue and guest services. The site is no longer reachable as of our last health check; we've marked the tool as discontinued.

  • Langfuse
    Langfuse
    Acquired

    Jan 2026

    Acquired by ClickHouse in December 2025; Langfuse continues to operate independently as the LLM observability platform.

    Acquired by ClickHouse.

  • Phind
    Phind
    Shut down

    Jan 2026

    Phind, a developer-focused AI answer engine that paired live web search with code-aware models, shut down on January 16, 2026 — abruptly, with no sunset period and just over a month after raising $10M. User data was deleted on January 30. As general-purpose foundation models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) folded web search and coding help into their core products, a standalone developer answer engine lost its differentiator.

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