The AI Software Graveyard
5.9% of the 3,427 AI agents & tools we track are already dead
We ran automated health checks against every tool listed in our directory: DNS lookups, full page loads, redirect tracing, and domain-parking detection. 201 of them are gone — domains that no longer resolve, servers that never answer, or homepages replaced by "this domain is for sale."
How they died
Causes of death across all 201 confirmed-dead tools.
The silent-death signal
Tools with no social presence at all die far more often.
Key takeaways
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“1 in 17 AI tools (5.9% of 3,427 tracked by AgentLocker) is already dead — the domain gone, the server dark, or the site parked for resale.”
“9.1% of AI tools tracked by AgentLocker no longer exist in their original form — either dead outright or redirecting to a different company after a pivot, acquisition, or domain sale.”
“The average dead AI tool survived just 14.9 months after being listed before going dark.”
“54.7% of dead AI tools were charging subscriptions when they vanished — paying customers didn't save them.”
“Market Analysis is the deadliest AI category: 15.1% of its tools are gone, versus just 0.0% in Robotics.”
“AI tools with no social media presence die 1.5x more often than those with active accounts (7.7% vs 5.1%).”
Did charging money help?
Death rate by pricing model.
The older the listing, the fuller the graveyard
Death rate by the quarter each tool was added.
Where AI tools go to die: death rate by category
Categories with at least 40 tracked tools, ranked by share confirmed dead.
Methodology
- Dataset: all 3,427 AI agents & tools listed on AgentLocker, scanned August 13, 2026.
- Dead means: the domain no longer resolves (85), the server never responds (45), the homepage returns 404/410/5xx (66), or the domain is parked for resale (5).
- Redirected (111) means the site permanently forwards to a different company's domain — a common signature of acquisitions, pivots, and domain sales. We count these separately, not as dead.
- Ambiguous results (bot walls, timeouts we couldn't classify) count as alive, so the real death rate is likely higher than reported.
- "Average time to going dark" measures months between a tool being listed here and failing its health check — an upper-bound proxy, since tools may die before we notice.
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