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Naver

035420.KS

Application

South Korea's dominant search and internet-platform company, whose HyperCLOVA X foundation models power its search, commerce and content products.

Total funding—

Market cap$22.5B

Employees5,047

Founded1999

HeadquartersSeongnam, South Korea

StatusPublic

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• AI Tab Application

  Agentic conversational search reachable from NAVER's own search bar that understands intent and connects results to real actions such as shopping, place discovery and reservations.

Inside Naver Map

• Place Agent Application

  AI-based conversational search feature inside the Naver Map app: finds places (restaurants, cafes, salons, vets and more) from a single natural-language request combining several conditions, refines results through multi-turn dialogue, and can complete a reservation through Naver Reservation for participating venues.

Similar products 28

No sourced competitor yet: no filing, vendor document or measured-market report read so far names a rival for this company, so none is asserted. The companies below are the closest by what their products do.

How this list is ranked ↗

OOpenEvidencePrivate · $12.2BAI Tab and OpenEvidence do comparable work on search answers; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGlean (Glean Technologies)Private · $7.2BAI Tab and Work Hub do comparable work on search answers; smaller scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareYYou.comPrivate · $1.5BAI Tab and You.com Answer API do comparable work on search answers; smaller scale (private); ships API service rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompareHHarveyPrivate · $11BAI Tab and Harvey Knowledge do comparable work on search answers; smaller scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareDDropboxPublic · $7.8BAI Tab and Dropbox Dash do comparable work on search answers; smaller scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareKKakaoPublic · $16BPlace Agent and Kanana in KakaoTalk do comparable work on search answers; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandComparePPerplexityPrivate · $20.4BPlace Agent and Perplexity do comparable work on search answers; similar scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePProfoundPrivatePlace Agent and Profound do comparable work on search answers; Profound's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSemrushAcquired ($1.9B deal)Place Agent and Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit do comparable work on search answers; Semrush is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHyperWritePrivatePlace Agent and HyperWrite do comparable work on search answers; HyperWrite's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSServiceNowPublic · $130.1BAI Tab and AI Search do comparable work on search answers; larger scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareYYandexPublicPlace Agent and Alice AI do comparable work on search answers; Yandex's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMicrosoftPublic · $3.7TPlace Agent and Microsoft Copilot do comparable work on search answers; larger scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareMManusPrivatePlace Agent and Manus do comparable work on search answers; smaller scale (private); ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAmazonPublic · $2.8TAI Tab and Amazon Quick do comparable work on search answers; larger scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TPlace Agent and AI Mode in Google Search do comparable work on search answers; larger scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareUUpstagePrivate · $958.8MPlace Agent and Solar Chat do comparable work on search answers; smaller scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareZZ.ai (Zhipu AI)Public · $58.6BPlace Agent and Z.ai do comparable work on search answers; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareXxAIAcquired ($230B deal)AI Tab and Grokipedia do comparable work on search answers; xAI is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTencentPublic · $510.1BPlace Agent and Tencent Yuanbao do comparable work on search answers; larger scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareOOpenAIPrivate · $852BPlace Agent and ChatGPT do comparable work on search answers; larger scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareMPMeta PlatformsPublic · $1.5TPlace Agent and Meta AI do comparable work on search answers; larger scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAAnthropicPrivate · $965BPlace Agent and Claude do comparable work on search answers; larger scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareMAMistral AIPrivate · $13.8BPlace Agent and Mistral Vibe do comparable work on search answers; similar scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlibabaPublic · $273.4BPlace Agent and Quark do comparable work on search answers; larger scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareSStepFunPrivate · $10BPlace Agent and 阶跃AI (StepFun AI) do comparable work on search answers; smaller scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareMAMoonshot AIPrivate · $35BPlace Agent and Kimi do comparable work on search answers; similar scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareALAI21 LabsPrivate · $1.4BAI Tab and AI21 Studio do comparable work on search answers; smaller scale (private); ships API service, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompare

Closest alternatives are pairs a vendor page itself compares. Similar products are matched from what each product does; nothing in that group is asserted as a rivalry.

Sources

Market cap

Third-party database · 28 Aug 2026

Market capitalisation 31.05T KRW, stockanalysis.com, converted at 1,377.69 KRW/USD (2026-08-28).

Employees

Third-party database · 31 Dec 2025

Employee count as of 2025, stockanalysis.com.

Founded

Wikipedia · 29 Aug 2026

Founded 2 June 1999.

Revenue (TTM)

Third-party database · 31 Dec 2025

2025 annual revenue 12.04T KRW, converted at 1,377.69 KRW/USD (2026-08-28).

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