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UA AI Tools from Ukraine

7 AI companies with verified Ukrainian origins — founded in Ukraine or built by Ukrainian founders, from 20-year pioneers to brand-new startups. Every origin claim independently verified.

7 companies 7 reviewed on Zekai building AI since 2009
Top 3 Ukrainian AI tools
#1
Luminar Neo ★ 9.3

Batch-retouch portraits with AI on your desktop. Get consistent results across thousands of photos and reclaim your evenings.

Photographers Read our review →
#2
Skylum Aperty ★ 9.3

Batch-retouch portraits with AI on your desktop. Get consistent results across thousands of photos and reclaim your evenings.

Photographers Read our review →
#3
People.ai ★ 8.6

Stop guessing which deals are real. People.ai automatically captures every sales activity to give you direct answers on pipeline health and risk.

Sales Read our review →

From Istanbul and Ankara to London, Frankfurt and San Francisco — Ukrainian founders are building world-class AI. This page tracks every AI product with verified Ukrainian origins. Companies that relocated abroad still count: origin is where a company was born, not where it banks.

Inside the Ukrainian AI ecosystem

Ukraine's AI ecosystem is anchored in Kyiv, Lviv, and Kharkiv, cities with strong engineering universities that have produced a deep bench of technical talent recognized worldwide. Ukrainian teams have built a particular strength in computer vision and generative photo and video editing, an area where products like Luminar Neo from Skylum turned advanced AI retouching into everyday tools for photographers, and where Reface pushed mobile-first face-swap and avatar technology to hundreds of millions of downloads. The same engineering culture extends into specialized audio AI, with Respeecher's voice-cloning technology trusted by game studios such as CD PROJEKT RED, and into enterprise software, where People.ai delivers revenue intelligence used daily by sales teams at companies like NVIDIA and OpenAI. What defines this ecosystem is continuity: despite enormous pressure, Ukrainian founders and engineers have kept shipping polished, globally competitive products rather than pausing operations. For a professional evaluating tools here, that translates into mature, well-tested software backed by teams whose technical rigor is well established in computer vision, creative AI, and B2B platforms alike.

“Photographers is the largest category among Ukrainian AI tools in the Zekai index, at 29% of listings.”— Zekai Index, 2026
Zekai's take: Photographers is the largest category among Ukrainian AI tools in the Zekai index, at 29% of listings. 29% of Ukrainian AI tools offer a free plan, compared to 27% globally.

State of AI Tools in Ukraine 2026

7
AI tools tracked
7
Reviewed & scored
29%
Offer a free plan
8.6/10
Avg. Zekai score
2009
Median founding year
29%
Top profession share
AI tools by professionPhotographers2Productivity1Sales1Video Editors1Music Producers1Writers1zekaiwork.com
Companies founded, by year20092021zekaiwork.com

Source: Zekai Index — 7 verified Ukrainian AI tools reviewed by Zekai as of 2026-09-02. Scores 1–10 per our published methodology.

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More Ukrainian AI tools

★ 8
Grammarly

Refine your financial reports and client proposals for maximum impact and clarity.

Founded: 2009 HQ: USA
Elevates written communication by refining text and reducing misunderstandings in critical documents like investor relations and financial reports.
★ 9.3
Luminar Neo

Batch-retouch portraits with AI on your desktop. Get consistent results across thousands of photos and reclaim your evenings.

HQ: Ukraine
Functions as a plugin for Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop; supports RAW files from over 1000 cameras.
★ 9.3
Skylum Aperty

Batch-retouch portraits with AI on your desktop. Get consistent results across thousands of photos and reclaim your evenings.

HQ: Ukraine
Reduces retouching time from 12 hours to 45 minutes for a typical wedding.
★ 8.6
People.ai

Stop guessing which deals are real. People.ai automatically captures every sales activity to give you direct answers on pipeline health and risk.

HQ: Ukraine
Trusted by NVIDIA, OpenAI, Red Hat and 100,000+ sellers daily.
★ 8.4
R Reface

Quickly create face-swap videos and AI avatars for social media content and viral marketing campaigns directly from your mobile device.

HQ: Ukraine
Over 300 million downloads across its product suite.
★ 8.6
Respeecher

Recreate any voice for your game, from de-aging protagonists to localizing dialogue and reviving beloved actors for DLCs.

HQ: Ukraine
Used by CD PROJEKT RED for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty.
★ 8.4
V vidby

Automate video and document translation, dubbing, and subtitling with AI to expand your global reach 1000x faster.

Founded: 2021 HQ: Switzerland
Trusted by 2,000+ companies; a YouTube Recommended Vendor.

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Frequently asked questions

How do you verify a company is Ukrainian?

Every entry needs at least two independent sources — company registries, Crunchbase, national tech press or VC portfolio pages — confirming it was founded in Ukraine, is headquartered there, or was built by a majority-Ukrainian founding team. Anything we cannot verify is excluded.

A company moved abroad — why is it still listed?

Origin means where a company was born. Many Ukrainian AI companies relocated their HQ to the US or Europe for market access while keeping engineering at home. We mark these as “relocated” and keep them: they are part of the Ukrainian AI story.

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