Top 50 AI YouTubers in 2026
The 50 largest ai youtubers by subscribers, out of 283 channels we classify as ai in our index.Each row shows the channel's size and the brands we have detected sponsoring its videos. Lex Fridman leads with 5M subscribers.
Updated Sep 27. Subscriber counts from YouTube; sponsors detected by SponsorRadar.
Perplexity
Shopify
LMNT
Alibaba Cloud
Wan Ai
Qoder
AI sponsorship deals per month
Sponsored videos detected per month across every channel in this list's scope. Recent months keep filling in as detection catches up.
The 50 biggest AI YouTubers
Ranked by current subscriber count. Top sponsors are the three brands with the most detected deals on that channel, all time.
Brands that sponsor ai youtubers
The most active sponsors across ai channels in the last 12 months, by detected deals.
| Brand | Category | Deals | Channels |
|---|---|---|---|
 Hostinger | Education | 222 | 41 |
 Abacus Ai | AI | 141 | 11 |
 Soul 2.0 | AI | 112 | 19 |
 Higgsfield | Technology | 95 | 22 |
 Scrimba | Technology | 77 | 9 |
 Vanta | AI | 73 | 2 |
 Kpmg | AI | 71 | 1 |
 Hubspot | Finance & Business | 70 | 7 |
| Alibaba Cloud | AI | 56 | 3 |
 Heygen | Entertainment | 49 | 14 |
 Invideo | Education | 43 | 15 |
 Openart | AI | 36 | 7 |
 Tripo Ai | AI | 34 | 5 |
 Artlist | Education | 33 | 6 |
 Nvidia | Education | 31 | 12 |
 Glaido | AI | 31 | 2 |
 Oracle | Technology | 30 | 3 |
 Brilliant.org | Education | 29 | 9 |
 Sweat Tent | Sports | 26 | 1 |
 Eleven Labs | Entertainment | 24 | 14 |
How this list is built
The scope is channels we classify as ai. We order them by subscriber count as reported by YouTube, refreshed nightly, and show the top 50. A sponsor is a brand we detected in that channel's videos through sponsor segments, description disclosures and promo links; the count is unique brands, all time. Channels we have not indexed are not ranked, so a missing channel means missing coverage, not a judgement. Read the full methodology.
Questions people ask
- Who is the biggest ai youtuber in 2026?
- Lex Fridman tops this list with 5M subscribers, and its most frequent sponsors are Perplexity, Shopify, LMNT.
- How is this ranking built?
- We rank the channels we classify as ai in our index by current subscriber count, then attach the sponsors we have detected in each channel's videos. 283 channels qualify; the top 50 are shown. Subscriber counts come from YouTube and refresh nightly.
- Which brands sponsor ai youtubers?
- Across the last 12 months the most active are Hostinger, Abacus Ai, Soul 2.0, Higgsfield, Scrimba. The full table above lists 20 brands with deal counts.
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