SubTrends

Averages 12 posts/day, top 25% activity. Most active Mondays around 5 PM UTC. Mostly image posts.

Posts / Day Average posts per day this month. Arrow is change vs the prior calendar month.
12 31%
Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post this month (upvotes minus downvotes). Arrow is change vs the prior month.
7 53%
Avg Comments Mean number of comments per post this month. Arrow is change vs the prior month when that month’s data is available.
1 17%
Activity Rank #11,942 by posts/day among 92,652 tracked SFW subreddits as of Jul 2026 (Top 25%). Arrow is spots gained or lost vs the prior month.
#11,942 2,808
Top 25%
Posts w/ Links The percentage of posts that link off-site. This counts true link posts plus text posts with a URL in the body. Image and video posts are not counted.
38%
Low-Reply Rate Share of posts with 0 or 1 comment. A single comment is often an automated mod reply rather than real community discussion.
83%

r/AIDeveloperNews Traffic & Engagement

Volume and engagement over time

Posts/DayAvg Upvotes05101520051015Jul 1Jul 8Jul 15Jul 22Jul 29
Posts/Day Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post in this bucket.

Post Format

Top Post Type Image
Typical Title Length Medium (92 chars)
Peak Day Thursday

Upvote Distribution

How upvoted posts perform Only posts with 2+ upvotes. The bands below show how those posts are spread by upvote count.

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66%
10–99
34%
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0%
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Posts that get upvoted Share of posts that received at least one upvote (2+ net upvotes). Most posts at 1 upvote are excluded. 49%
Median upvoted post Median upvotes among posts that received upvotes. Differs from Avg Upvotes in the snapshot, which includes every post. 5
Top post Highest upvote count on a single post this month. 80

r/AIDeveloperNews Most Active Times

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Most Active by Day

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Tue 9 PM
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r/AIDeveloperNews Flair Performance

Upvotes and volume by flair

This subreddit doesn't use post flairs.

No flaired posts were found in this month's data.

Post Type Breakdown

Share by text, image, or link

51%image posts

r/AIDeveloperNews Trending Keywords

Ranked by how often they appear

KeywordMentions ▼UpvotesComments
open
115 (30.1%)
121
source
70 (18.3%)
91
agent
52 (13.6%)
91
agents
51 (13.3%)
50
model
46 (12.0%)
192
built
44 (11.5%)
62
coding
39 (10.2%)
92
code
33 (8.6%)
51
local
30 (7.8%)
41
sourced
26 (6.8%)
191

r/AIDeveloperNews Mentioned Domains

Most linked sites

Domain Links Upvotes
github.com142
youtube.com41
pxllnk.co33
youtu.be31

r/AIDeveloperNews Top Posts

Highest-performing posts

Someone just open-sourced Grug-12B: An experimental model built on top of Gemma-4-12b that cuts reasoning tokens and doubles generation speed

80 upvotes 7 comments image Jul 5

Mistral AI has just launched Leanstral 1.5: A fully open-source Lean 4 code agent model (119B/6B active) with Free API

77 upvotes 8 comments image Jul 3

DeepSeek just launched "DSpark": A fully open-source speculative decoding module for their 1.6T MoE (1M Context) model

76 upvotes 9 comments image Jul 2

LangChain just launched OpenWiki: An open-source AI agent and CLI that writes and maintains your repo documentation

75 upvotes 3 comments image Jul 3

Vercel just dropped Native SDK: A fully open-source toolkit for building native desktop apps

73 upvotes 13 comments image Jul 18

KwaiKAT just dropped KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev: An open-weight MoE AI model (35B total, 3B active) built on Qwen3.6 for agentic coding

72 upvotes 16 comments image Jul 23

vLLM just dropped v0.25.0: Model Runner V2 is now default, PagedAttention is dead, and universal speculative decoding is here

69 upvotes 0 comments image Jul 12

PrismML just launched Bonsai 27B: The first 27B-class multimodal AI model to run on a phone (3.9GB/1-bit weights)

66 upvotes 19 comments image Jul 14

Tencent has just launched Hy3: A fully open-source agentic 295B MoE model (21B active) with Free API

64 upvotes 4 comments image Jul 7

Liquid AI just launched LFM2.5-Encoder (230M/350M): Two fully open-weight multilingual bidirectional encoders optimized for CPU

51 upvotes 0 comments image Jul 28

r/AIDeveloperNews Audience Overlap

Overlapping audiences

r/AIDeveloperNews FAQ

What's the best time to post on r/AIDeveloperNews?

Based on posting volume, r/AIDeveloperNews is most active on Mondays around 5 PM UTC. That window has the most community activity, but busier hours also mean more competition for attention.

How active is r/AIDeveloperNews?

r/AIDeveloperNews averages 12 posts per day and ranks in the top 25% for activity among tracked SFW subreddits.

How many upvotes do posts on r/AIDeveloperNews get?

Posts on r/AIDeveloperNews average about 7 upvotes this month (net score per post).

What kind of posts does r/AIDeveloperNews get most?

On r/AIDeveloperNews, posts are a mix of formats, mostly image posts