# The cheapest AI ETFs

> The cheapest AI ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges, as of Oct 20, 2026. 15 funds from ETFIQ’s own published figures.

Data as of Oct 20, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

As of Oct 20, 2026 . Rebuilt every trading night.

## The cheapest AI ETFs

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.

| # | Ticker | Fund | Fee | Net assets | Weight in S&P 500 companies | Total return, 1Y |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | WISE | Themes Generative Artificial Intelligenc | 0.35% | $34m | 32.4% | −26.9% |
| 2 | XA | Corgi AI Cybersecurity ETF | 0.35% | $8m | 41.4% | too new |
| 3 | XAIX | Xtrackers Artificial Intelligence and Bi | 0.35% | $156m | 70.1% | +32.7% |
| 4 | DRGN | Themes China Generative Artificial Intel | 0.39% | $27m | 0.0% | −11.6% |
| 5 | WDRN | WisdomTree Physical AI, Humanoids, and D | 0.45% | $18m | 23.0% | too new |
| 6 | WTAI | WisdomTree Artificial Intelligence and I | 0.45% | $669m | 65.0% | +28.9% |
| 7 | ARTY | iShares Future AI & Tech ETF | 0.47% | $3.8bn | 52.0% | +46.1% |
| 8 | BAI | iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active | 0.55% | $13.0bn | 54.4% | +22.2% |
| 9 | IGPT | Invesco AI and Next Gen Software ETF | 0.57% | $1.3bn | 76.2% | +57.4% |
| 10 | ALAI | Alger AI Enablers & Adopters ETF | 0.58% | $451m | 60.0% | +19.2% |
| 11 | JHAI | Janus Henderson Global Artificial Intell | 0.59% | $23m | 68.3% | +20.5% |
| 12 | AIX | Defiance US 100 Tech AI Moat ETF | 0.65% | $476,097 | 89.8% | too new |
| 13 | FAI | First Trust Bloomberg Artificial Intelli | 0.65% | $250m | 77.0% | +31.1% |
| 14 | ROBT | First Trust Nasdaq Artificial Intelligen | 0.65% | $750m | 34.3% | +3.7% |
| 15 | AIQ | Global X Artificial Intelligence & Techn | 0.68% | $10.6bn | 64.7% | +23.3% |

### Method

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.

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### Where these figures came from

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Source: ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.
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