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Archived edition, September 2026

AI Agents Industry Report, September 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growing

Visits, year on year
+181%
Visits, last six months
+146%
Name searches vs October 2025
+62%

Every key number on the AI agent market for September 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 16 sites I measure got about 4.2 million visits from Google, 181% more than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 93.1% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for October 2026. This is an archived edition, kept as published; the latest one is here.

Published 15 October 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

AI agent industry report: the key numbers for September 2026

Four numbers for September 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 16 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    4,218,347
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +181.1% year on year, +21.5% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    449,514
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +208.5% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    10.7%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    138,890
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +61.8% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    1,108,140
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +5.5% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai agents”, US
    Value
    49,500
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai agents”, worldwide
    Value
    301,000
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    76,571
    Period and basis
    September 2026; first reading, no year-on-year figure yet
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    93.1%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    99.4%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai agents”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    September 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai agents”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    September 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out Hermes Agent, Manus and Viktor: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+181%), and September 2026 was a better month than August 2026 (+22%). Genspark made most of the move in September 2026: it gained 409,870 of the market's 746,621 visits; without it, visits to the other sites rose 11.5% on August 2026.

WorldVisits a month to AI agent sites, worldwide

01.3M2.5M3.8M5.0MOct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 264.2M
Low 52.2KHigh 4.2MAverage 1.8M
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Miles explains

Judge this line on the year, not the last dot: visits are 181% above a year ago, and this is the highest month in two years. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

3How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 62% more often than in October 2025 (+62%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

0500K1.0M1.5M2.0MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26139K
Low 80.9KHigh 1.2MAverage 355K
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are up 62%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows more people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 11 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 7 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

012.52537.550Oct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2610.7
Low 8High 26.3Average 12
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    773,360
    Share of the measured countries
    59.5%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    219,724
    Share of the measured countries
    16.9%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    91,150
    Share of the measured countries
    7%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    64,246
    Share of the measured countries
    4.9%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    53,208
    Share of the measured countries
    4.1%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    53,164
    Share of the measured countries
    4.1%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    45,224
    Share of the measured countries
    3.5%

Source: DataForSEO, September 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 11 in every 100 visits. India alone is 59.5% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

Manus gets the most visits, OpenClaw is the name people search for most, and no tracked site ranks on Google for “ai agents”. The five most-visited sites take 93.1% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

  • Manus
    Visits a month
    1,339,480
  • Genspark
    Visits a month
    942,765
  • OpenClaw
    Visits a month
    757,750
  • Skywork
    Visits a month
    686,669
  • Sai by Simular
    Visits a month
    199,148
  • Hermes Agent
    Visits a month
    91,272
  • Flowith
    Visits a month
    80,895
  • Agnes AI
    Visits a month
    58,399
  • Sintra
    Visits a month
    24,899
  • MiniMax Agent
    Visits a month
    11,889

By US brand-name searches

  • OpenClaw
    Searches a month
    74,000
  • Skywork
    Searches a month
    27,100
  • Genspark
    Searches a month
    18,100
  • Marblism (Eva)
    Searches a month
    8,100
  • Sintra
    Searches a month
    5,400
  • Agnes AI
    Searches a month
    1,900
  • Flowith
    Searches a month
    1,900
  • AutoGPT
    Searches a month
    1,000
  • MiniMax Agent
    Searches a month
    590
  • AgentGPT
    Searches a month
    320

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 93.1% of all visits. When one of them gains or loses a big ranking, the whole market total moves with it.

6Who grew and who shrank

The fastest grower in a year was Skywork (+5233%); the steepest fall was at AgentGPT (-86%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • Skywork
    A year ago
    12,875
    Now
    686,669
    Change
    +5233%
  • Manus
    A year ago
    253,024
    Now
    1,339,480
    Change
    +429%
  • Sintra
    A year ago
    17,561
    Now
    24,899
    Change
    +42%
  • AutoGPT
    A year ago
    10,278
    Now
    11,293
    Change
    +10%

Declining

  • AgentGPT
    A year ago
    17,487
    Now
    2,497
    Change
    -86%
  • SuperAGI
    A year ago
    6,000
    Now
    2,714
    Change
    -55%
  • Genspark
    A year ago
    1,177,980
    Now
    942,765
    Change
    -20%

Worldwide search visits, September 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

Corrected 22 October 2026: the figures were rebuilt from the sources; the year-on-year change in visits moved from +112.7% to +168.0%.

Corrected 22 October 2026: the figures were rebuilt from the sources; the year-on-year change in visits moved from +168.0% to +181.0%.

To cite this report: RankDude, “AI Agents Industry Report, September 2026”, published 15 October 2026, corrected 22 October 2026, https://rankdude.ai/ai-agents/statistics/industry-report/2026-09. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.

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