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Rebuilt every trading night.\n The cheapest AI ETFs\n See 15 funds ranked by the annual fee the fund charges. Updated Oct 20, 2026. A fee is one fact, not a verdict. Funds on one theme can hold different companies, and the holdings are on the theme page.\n The cheapest AI ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges, as of Oct 20, 2026. Source: ETFIQ. # Ticker Fund Fee Net assets Weight in S&P 500 companies Total return, 1Y \n 1 WISE Themes Generative Artificial Intelligenc 0.35% $34m 32.4% \u221226.9% \n 2 XA Corgi AI Cybersecurity ETF 0.35% $8m 41.4% too new \n 3 XAIX Xtrackers Artificial Intelligence and Bi 0.35% $156m 70.1% +32.7% \n 4 DRGN Themes China Generative Artificial Intel 0.39% $27m 0.0% \u221211.6% \n 5 WDRN WisdomTree Physical AI, Humanoids, and D 0.45% $18m 23.0% too new \n 6 WTAI WisdomTree Artificial Intelligence and I 0.45% $669m 65.0% +28.9% \n 7 ARTY iShares Future AI & Tech ETF 0.47% $3.8bn 52.0% +46.1% \n 8 BAI iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active 0.55% $13.0bn 54.4% +22.2% \n 9 IGPT Invesco AI and Next Gen Software ETF 0.57% $1.3bn 76.2% +57.4% \n 10 ALAI Alger AI Enablers & Adopters ETF 0.58% $451m 60.0% +19.2% \n 11 JHAI Janus Henderson Global Artificial Intell 0.59% $23m 68.3% +20.5% \n 12 AIX Defiance US 100 Tech AI Moat ETF 0.65% $476,097 89.8% too new \n 13 FAI First Trust Bloomberg Artificial Intelli 0.65% $250m 77.0% +31.1% \n 14 ROBT First Trust Nasdaq Artificial Intelligen 0.65% $750m 34.3% +3.7% \n 15 AIQ Global X Artificial Intelligence & Techn 0.68% $10.6bn 64.7% +23.3% \n \n Method\n The 36 of 36 ETFs in the artificial intelligence theme that publish an expense ratio, cheapest first. Across the funds listed here the annual fee runs from 0.3% to 0.7%. A fee is the one number a fund controls and the one a holder always pays. The list sorts one published figure, with no scoring or weighting. Every fund ETFIQ covers in this category is eligible, closed funds included.\n Where to next\n Every AI ETF and what it holds The largest AI ETFs Where these figures came from\n Fund holdings from SEC Form N-PORT and from the issuers own daily files SEC EDGAR, full-text search of fund filings SEC Form N-PORT, what a fund filed it holds Rule 19a-1, what a distribution notice must say ETFIQ links to the documents behind every figure; a link is not an endorsement.\n A ranking is not a recommendation or an opinion. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser. Standards and sources \n Cite this page. ETFIQ, The cheapest AI ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges, data as of Oct 20, 2026. https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-cheapest-ai Free to use with attribution for figures ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. 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