AI personal assistant statistics, September 2026

Four numbers for September 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 17 AI personal assistant sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google561Kvisits+41% vs a year ago
• Google searches12.1Ksearchesfor "ai personal assistant"
• Most visited site199KvisitsSai by Simular, 35% of all
• Expected in October539Kvisits-4% vs last month

• 561,263 Google visits went to the 17 AI personal assistant sites RankDude tracks in September 2026, 41% more than a year earlier (9% fewer without Sai by Simular).
• Shrinking: the AI personal assistant market is shrinking, but visits are up 24% over the last six months.
• 12,100 searches a month for “ai personal assistant” worldwide, 45% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 35% of all visits go to Sai by Simular, the most-visited AI personal assistant; the five most-visited take 84%.
• 28.7% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Canada and the United Kingdom.
• 539,020 visits expected in October 2026, likely between 418K and 660K.

Source: DataForSEO, Google Ads and Google Trends, September 2026, compiled by RankDude.

Shrinking, but visits are up 24% over the last six months.

Over two years, visits went from 599K in October 2024 to a high of 678K in December 2024, fell to 338K in July 2026, and recovered to 561K in September 2026. Much of the year’s change is one site, Sai by Simular, which is why I also look at the market without it.

Visits, year on year

-9%

Visits, last six months

+24%

Name searches, US

-35%

Busiest month (2 years)

December 2024, 678K visits

Miles explains

I only call a market growing when visits and name searches agree. Here visits are down and name searches are down, so they agree.

Open the AI personal assistant market demand page

“ai personal assistant” is searched about 12,100 times a month worldwide, 45% of it in the US.

Google Trends barely registered “ai personal assistant” until June 2025; interest then climbed to its peak in May 2026. Americans make 45% of the searches but only 28.7% of the visits, because the big sites also draw heavily from India, Canada and United Kingdom.

Searches a month, US

5,400

Google Trends now

42/100 +27%

Five-year peak

90/100 in May 2026

Miles explains

Google Trends shows direction, not volume. Interest is higher than a year ago, and I only trust that when the visits move the same way.

Open the AI personal assistant search trends page

More visits than a year ago only because of Sai by Simular, but fewer people searching by name, and the next six months look flat after a step down.

The losers, led by Shortwave, lost most of their search visits (-93%).

Visits vs August 2026

+32%

Biggest gain this month

Lifestack +181%

Biggest loss this month

Akiflow -34%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like Reclaim.ai’s +25% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

Open the AI personal assistant monthly analysis page

I expect October 2026 to be 4% fewer than September 2026, and the next six months to look down.

The forecast carries the level of recent months forward, not the trend line, because that version missed least when tested on past months. October is usually a quieter month than average for searches, but the calendar did not improve the forecast, so it is left out.

Expected in October 2026

539,020 visits

Likely range

418K to 660K

Expected in April 2027

539K -4%

Past forecasts in range

4 of 6 months

Miles explains

Read the range, not the single number: tested on the last 6 months, my method landed inside its range 4 times.

Open the AI personal assistant monthly forecast page

The most visited is Sai by Simular, with 199,148 visits a month, 35% of all visits.

Sai by Simular and Poke together hold 51% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 12 sites share 16%.

Top five sites

84% of all visits

Visits from the US

28.7%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Canada and United Kingdom

Sites tracked

17

Miles explains

Sai by Simular alone has 35% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI personal assistant industry report page

Yes. Every number on these pages comes from two CSV files, free to download.

Cite as: Miles Foster, “AI Personal Assistant Statistics, September 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/ai-personal-assistant/statistics

Open the AI personal assistant data page