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Archived edition, September 2026

AI Personal Assistant Industry Report, September 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growing

Visits, year on year, without OpenClaw
+54%
Visits, last six months
+135%
Name searches vs October 2025
+217%

Every key number on the AI personal assistant market for September 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 22 sites I measure got about 1.4 million visits from Google, 234% more than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 84.7% 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 personal assistant industry report: the key numbers for September 2026

Four numbers for September 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 22 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    1,406,469
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +233.9% year on year, +24.7% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    327,627
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +153.3% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    23.3%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    95,040
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +217.3% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    578,590
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +424.2% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai personal assistant”, US
    Value
    5,400
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai personal assistant”, worldwide
    Value
    12,100
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    76,194
    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
    84.7%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    97.5%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai personal assistant”, US
    Value
    1
    Period and basis
    September 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai personal assistant”, US
    Value
    1
    Period and basis
    September 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out Instinct, Motion, Poke and Vellum: 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 (+234%), and September 2026 was a better month than August 2026 (+25%). OpenClaw, which first drew search visits in February 2026, accounts for most of the rise (77% of it) and takes 53.9% of the visits. Without it, visits would be up 54.0% on a year ago instead of up 233.9%.

WorldVisits a month to AI personal assistant sites, worldwide

0500K1.0M1.5M2.0MOct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 261.4M
Low 362KHigh 1.4MAverage 683K
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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 234% 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 217% more often than in October 2025 (+217%). 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 2695.0K
Low 26.9KHigh 1.0MAverage 289K
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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 217%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows more people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 23 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 2623.3
Low 22.7High 34.7Average 28
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    294,722
    Share of the measured countries
    61.6%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    59,260
    Share of the measured countries
    12.4%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    34,350
    Share of the measured countries
    7.2%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    27,772
    Share of the measured countries
    5.8%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    24,775
    Share of the measured countries
    5.2%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    19,804
    Share of the measured countries
    4.1%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    17,882
    Share of the measured countries
    3.7%

Source: DataForSEO, September 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 23 in every 100 visits. India alone is 61.6% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

OpenClaw gets the most visits, OpenClaw is the name people search for most, and Sai by Simular holds Google’s first position for “ai personal assistant”. The five most-visited sites take 84.7% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

  • OpenClaw
    Visits a month
    757,750
  • Sai by Simular
    Visits a month
    199,148
  • Poke
    Visits a month
    86,639
  • Motion
    Visits a month
    84,221
  • Fyxer
    Visits a month
    63,331
  • Reclaim.ai
    Visits a month
    58,670
  • Saner.AI
    Visits a month
    42,876
  • Carly
    Visits a month
    39,859
  • Vellum
    Visits a month
    20,196
  • Lifestack
    Visits a month
    19,046

By US brand-name searches

  • OpenClaw
    Searches a month
    74,000
  • Fyxer
    Searches a month
    6,600
  • Akiflow
    Searches a month
    3,600
  • Reclaim.ai
    Searches a month
    3,600
  • Zo Computer
    Searches a month
    1,600
  • SaneBox
    Searches a month
    1,300
  • Saner.AI
    Searches a month
    1,300
  • Carly
    Searches a month
    880
  • Zapia
    Searches a month
    720
  • Shortwave
    Searches a month
    480

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 84.7% 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 Fyxer (+1011%); the steepest fall was at Shortwave (-93%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • Fyxer
    A year ago
    5,703
    Now
    63,331
    Change
    +1011%
  • Reclaim.ai
    A year ago
    47,003
    Now
    58,670
    Change
    +25%
  • Vellum
    A year ago
    17,969
    Now
    20,196
    Change
    +12%

Declining

  • Shortwave
    A year ago
    16,272
    Now
    1,209
    Change
    -93%
  • Trevor AI
    A year ago
    5,781
    Now
    450
    Change
    -92%
  • Motion
    A year ago
    287,409
    Now
    84,221
    Change
    -71%
  • SaneBox
    A year ago
    12,609
    Now
    5,731
    Change
    -55%
  • Zapia
    A year ago
    14,752
    Now
    9,172
    Change
    -38%
  • Akiflow
    A year ago
    6,752
    Now
    5,739
    Change
    -15%

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 +41.2% to +243.8%.

Corrected 22 October 2026: the figures were rebuilt from the sources; the year-on-year change in visits moved from +243.8% to +233.9%.

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

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