adtoolbench/ai-ad-tools

AdToolBench AI Ad Tools Dataset

A structured, source-linked list of 222 AI tools for paid advertising, ad creative and affiliate marketing. It covers 15 categories: ad creative generators, UGC/avatar video, ad copy, attribution and server-side tracking, affiliate tracking software, competitor ad research, Google Ads/PPC, Meta ads automation, product feeds, landing pages and more.

It is the open data behind AdToolBench, an independent directory of AI tools for media buyers. Every row links to its tool page on adtoolbench.com and, where a price is present, to the vendor page the price came from.

• Files: tools.csv (the default config on the Hub) and tools.jsonl (same rows, typed values: booleans and null).
• Rows: 222 (one per tool). Snapshot date: 2026-10-20.
• License: CC BY 4.0

Fields

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Tool name
slug	string	Stable identifier (same as the AdToolBench URL slug)
category	string	AdToolBench category (one of 15)
category_slug	string	Category identifier, e.g. attribution-tracking-and-server-side
website_url	string	Vendor website (no tracking or affiliate parameters)
pricing_model	string	subscription, quote, usage-based, annual-only, free or unknown
price_entry_plan	string / null	Name of the cheapest paid plan we recorded
price_per_month	number / null	Entry price per month. Blank if unknown, never estimated
price_currency	string / null	USD or EUR
price_billing_note	string / null	Billing basis of the price, e.g. monthly or billed annually (monthly-equivalent shown)
price_verified	boolean	true only if read directly from the vendor's own pricing page or official docs
price_status	string	verified, unverified (third-party or ambiguous source) or unknown (no price recorded)
price_checked_date	date	Date the pricing source was checked (YYYY-MM-DD)
price_source_url	string / null	Page the price (or its absence) was read from
free_plan	boolean / null	true or false if the vendor states it; blank or null if not stated or not checked
free_trial	boolean / null	true if the vendor states a free trial; blank or null otherwise
affiliate_program	boolean / null	true if the vendor runs a public affiliate or partner program; blank or null means not confirmed (not "no")
affiliate_commission	string / null	Commission as published by the vendor (e.g. 30%), only when publicly stated and checked
affiliate_terms	string / null	Short public commission terms (e.g. "recurring for 12 months"), when stated
affiliate_checked_date	date / null	Date the affiliate program page was checked
adtoolbench_url	string	Tool page on adtoolbench.com

Snapshot coverage (2026-10-20):

• Prices: 162 verified, 7 unverified, 53 with no price. Most of the no-price tools are quote-only or demo-led.
• Affiliate programs: 78 tools have a confirmed affiliate program, and 62 of them publish a commission.

How prices are verified

• Prices are read from each vendor's own pricing page or official documentation. Rendered pages are captured and the entry-level paid plan is recorded with its billing basis.
• price_verified = true means the figure was seen on the vendor's own page on price_checked_date.
• Figures from third-party sources, or from pages where the billing period is ambiguous, are marked unverified.
• We never guess. If no price could be confirmed, price_per_month is left blank.
• Prices change often, and promotions end. Always confirm on price_source_url before buying.
• The data comes from public vendor pages. It does not include hands-on testing results or any non-public information.

Update cadence

The dataset is refreshed weekly from the AdToolBench database. Prices are rechecked on a rolling basis, and each row's price_checked_date shows when it was last checked. The live version is also available at https://adtoolbench.com/data/tools.json.

Attribution

If you use this dataset, please credit AdToolBench with a link to https://adtoolbench.com, as CC BY 4.0 requires. For example:

Data: AdToolBench AI Ad Tools Dataset (https://adtoolbench.com), CC BY 4.0.

Citation

@misc{adtoolbench_ai_ad_tools_2026,
  title        = {AdToolBench AI Ad Tools Dataset},
  author       = {{AdToolBench}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/adtoolbench/ai-ad-tools}},
  note         = {Snapshot 2026-10-20. https://adtoolbench.com. License: CC BY 4.0}
}

Limitations

• Coverage: the list covers tools relevant to paid ads and affiliate marketing. It is not exhaustive.
• Categories: each tool has one primary category assigned by AdToolBench.
• Comparing prices: entry prices are not comparable across tools without reading plan limits (credits, events, seats). See the source pages.
• Affiliate data: a blank affiliate_program means not confirmed, not "no program".

Contact

Corrections and questions: team@adtoolbench.com. Corrections are applied whether or not a vendor works with us.