AI market sentiment · updated Oct 5, 2026
AI Fear & Greed Index
One number for the AI economy. 0 is extreme fear. 100 is extreme greed. The reading below is the latest hourly score.
Now
Neutral
Latest reading
Yesterday
Neutral
Today: +7 points versus yesterday
Last week
Neutral
+5 points versus last week
Extreme Fear
Fear
Neutral
Greed
Extreme Greed
The composite inputs are mixed. A composite of price, news, activity and editorial assumptions; it does not measure dollars entering or leaving AI investments and has no established predictive track record.
A composite of price, news, activity and editorial assumptions; it does not measure dollars entering or leaving AI investments and has no established predictive track record.
How to read the AI Fear & Greed Index
The AI Fear & Greed Index is a 0–100 gauge of investor sentiment toward the AI economy. Right now it reads 59, which is Neutral. A low score means fear: the composite inputs lean defensive. A high score means the inputs lean constructive. This does not measure capital flows. Use it as market-mood context, not a buy or sell signal.
0–24
Extreme Fear
The measured and assumed inputs lean strongly defensive.
25–39
Fear
The composite inputs lean defensive.
40–59
Neutral
The composite inputs are mixed.
60–74
Greed
The composite inputs lean constructive.
75–100
Extreme Greed
The composite inputs lean strongly constructive.
What is inside today's number
Each bar is that signal's current weight. The number on the right is its own 0–100 score, not a claim about why the index moved.
Compute
17.8%
30.7
Macro
15.6%
77.6
Market
14.4%
74.1
Ecosystem
10%
41.2
Assets
10%
58.2
News
8.9%
83.5
Technicals
8.9%
62.7
Allocation
5.6%
89
Reader Attention
4.4%
12.2
Catalysts
4.4%
84.4
Score chart
AI Sentiment Score Trend
238 recorded readings, 2026-09-24T13:07:04.604Z to 2026-10-05T18:07:05.233Z. This endpoint can differ from the current calculation.
Calculation time
59
Latest chart observation
Change over window
+5 pts
Hourly readings
238
269-hour history; average hourly move 2.8 points from near-hourly adjacent readings.
stored
Latest recorded score
238 recorded readings, 2026-09-24T13:07:04.604Z to 2026-10-05T18:07:05.233Z. This endpoint can differ from the current calculation.
Current score composition
Current top-weighted AI index drivers
10 active signals: 6 in the greed range, 2 neutral, 2 in the fear range. Ranking reflects current weighted influence on the score, not attribution for a historical move. Active signals can include measured inputs and model assumptions.
Liquidity & Macro Pressure
77.6Constructive · active weight 15.6% · not a forecast
AI Market Momentum
74.1Constructive · active weight 14.4% · not a forecast
AI News Sentiment
83.5Very hot · active weight 8.9% · not a forecast
Editorial Allocation Breadth
89Very hot · active weight 5.6% · not a forecast
Compute Deflation
30.7Defensive · active weight 17.8% · not a forecast
TECHi Reader Attention
12.2Stress · active weight 4.4% · not a forecast
The 0–100 scale
What the AI Fear & Greed score means
Extreme Fear
0–24
The measured and assumed inputs lean strongly defensive.
Fear
25–39
The composite inputs lean defensive.
Neutral
40–59
The composite inputs are mixed.
Greed
60–74
The composite inputs lean constructive.
Extreme Greed
75–100
The composite inputs lean strongly constructive.
The index is recomputed every hour from the latest available data. If a live source is temporarily unavailable, the score holds at its most recent reading. Underlying sources update on their own cadence — intraday, monthly, quarterly, annually, or on TECHi editorial refreshes.
How it compares
AI Fear & Greed vs the Crypto Fear & Greed Index
Crypto greed gauges read Bitcoin's mood. We built this to read the AI economy — a broader, more transparent, faster-updating signal.
What it measures
TECHi AI
The AI economy — AI-stock momentum, capex, compute costs, ecosystem breadth, news & macro
Crypto
Bitcoin & large-cap crypto sentiment
Signals behind the score
TECHi AI
12 configured · 12 available · 10 active (techi-ai-fng-v1.10)
Crypto
Around 6 signals, mostly price & volatility
Update frequency
TECHi AI
Hourly
Crypto
Daily
Asset focus
TECHi AI
AI & technology stocks
Crypto
Bitcoin / crypto
Source transparency
TECHi AI
Every input links to its source, with freshness shown per signal
Crypto
Aggregate components, summarized
Free API & embed widget
TECHi AI
Yes
Crypto
API yes, embed limited
Both are sentiment gauges, not buy or sell signals. See the crypto index on Alternative.me.
News & Sentiment Signal
Market News & Sentiment Trending
TECHi analyzes technology market headlines — the article topics, ticker sentiment, and headline tone that feed the AI News Sentiment component.
News score
86/100
headline tone
Scored articles
384/384
0 rejected as irrelevant
Average tone
0.4
raw sentiment
Latest article
Oct 5, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC
provider feed
Relevance funnel
- Collected
- 1072
- Outside the 36-hour window
- 512
- Duplicates removed
- 176
- Included
- 384
- Rejected as irrelevant
- 0
- Ticker-mapped (of included)
- 384
- General AI, no ticker (of included)
- 0
- Avg. classifier confidence
- Not scored
Sources: Yahoo 300 · Benzinga 39 · SeekingAlpha 21 · ChartMill 10 · The Motley Fool 8 · Zacks Investment Research 5 · GlobeNewswire Inc. 1
QA check: essentially no collected articles were rejected as irrelevant. Confirm the feed is being filtered, not passed through.
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How the AI Fear & Greed Index is calculated
Published score is a structured linear combination of four sub-indices: Market Momentum 36% (AI session breadth when the coverage basket is not live, capex, price-volume breadth proxy, technical breadth, options crowding), Ecosystem Supply 25% (log-scaled compute deflation and externally sourced ecosystem breadth), Macro Liquidity 23% (official rates and inflation, plus a live session tape of Nasdaq 100, NVIDIA, VIX, gold, silver, oil, and bitcoin), and Attention Sentiment 16% (TECHi reader attention capped at 4/100, news sentiment, catalysts and weekly tape). The experimental TECHi adoption clock is shown as context but does not move the published score. Each component is converted to a 0-100 z-score percentile against TECHi methodology priors; stale measured inputs decay toward 50, fully refreshing components are excluded, and their weight is redistributed across active components. Editorial placeholders do not count in the live-input ratio. Editorial assumptions without a source observation date have an unknown review date; the hourly calculation time does not refresh their evidence. The final headline score applies a freshness confidence multiplier to the active score deviation from neutral.
Every input links to its source. Stale or missing feeds are automatically down-weighted, and the score is pulled toward neutral when live coverage is low — so the number reflects how much real data is actually behind it.
Hourly
recomputed every hour
90/100
High coverage
84%
32/32 source-linked
10/12
weighted into the score
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Component readings
- AI Market Momentum
- 74.1/100 · 14.4% weight
- Liquidity & Macro Pressure
- 77.6/100 · 15.6% weight
- Compute Deflation
- 30.7/100 · 17.8% weight
- Capital & Capex
- 50/100 · 0% weight
- TECHi Reader Attention
- 12.2/100 · 4.4% weight
- AI News Sentiment
- 83.5/100 · 8.9% weight
- Ecosystem Breadth
- 41.2/100 · 10% weight
- Editorial Allocation Breadth
- 89/100 · 5.6% weight
- Technical Breadth
- 62.7/100 · 8.9% weight
- Options Stress & Crowding
- 50/100 · 0% weight
- Catalyst & Weekly Tape
- 84.4/100 · 4.4% weight
- Cross-Asset Pressure
- 58.2/100 · 10% weight
AI Fear & Greed Index — FAQ
What is the AI Fear & Greed Index?+
The AI Fear & Greed Index is a 0–100 gauge of investor sentiment toward the AI economy. Low scores indicate defensive composite inputs; high scores indicate constructive inputs. This is not a measurement of investment flows. It blends 12 weighted, source-linked signals (AI-stock momentum, capex, compute costs, ecosystem breadth, quote-page demand, news sentiment, and macro pressure) into one number, refreshed hourly.
Is the AI market in fear or greed right now?+
Right now the index reads 59 out of 100, which is "Neutral". The composite inputs are mixed. A composite of price, news, activity and editorial assumptions; it does not measure dollars entering or leaving AI investments and has no established predictive track record.
How is the AI Fear & Greed Index calculated?+
Each of the 12 components is scored 0–100, normalised against versioned methodology priors (a z-score percentile); sufficiently populated recorded history can calibrate those priors, then combined by weight into a composite. Stale or missing feeds are down-weighted and the headline score is pulled toward neutral (50) when live coverage is low, so the number honestly reflects how much current data supports it.
How is it different from the Crypto Fear & Greed Index?+
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index by Alternative.me measures Bitcoin sentiment, driven mostly by price, volatility, and social volume, and updates about once a day. TECHi's index measures the AI economy instead — AI-stock breadth, AI capex, compute (token) costs, ecosystem breadth, and macro liquidity — updates hourly, and links every input to its source.
How often is the index updated?+
The index recomputes every hour. The page shows the time of the last update, an auto-refresh countdown to the next one, and a manual refresh button, and you can pull the latest reading anytime from the public JSON API.
How should I use the score?+
Treat it as market-mood context, not a buy or sell signal. This index has no established predictive track record. It is a dashboard for AI-stock research, earnings, and risk appetite — it is not investment advice.