AI receptionist statistics, September 2026

Four numbers for September 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 15 AI receptionist sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google457Kvisits-7% vs a year ago
• Most visited site406KvisitsGoodcall, 89% of all
• Expected in October500Kvisits+9% vs last month

• 456,825 Google visits went to the 15 AI receptionist sites RankDude tracks in September 2026, 7% fewer than a year earlier (100% more without Phonely).
• Growing: the AI receptionist market is growing, but visits are down 68% since April 2026.
• 89% of all visits go to Goodcall, the most-visited AI receptionist; the five most-visited take 98%.
• 60.1% of visits come from the United States, followed by Canada, India and the United Kingdom.
• 499,699 visits expected in October 2026, likely between 307K and 692K.

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

Growing, but visits are down 68% since April 2026.

Over two years, visits went from 55.0K in October 2024 to a high of 1.4M in April 2026, and stand at 457K in September 2026. Much of the year’s change is one site, Phonely, which is why I also look at the market without it.

Visits, year on year

+100%

Visits, last six months

-46%

Name searches, US

+30%

Busiest month (2 years)

April 2026, 1.4M visits

Miles explains

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

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Google Trends barely registered “ai receptionist” until July 2025; interest then climbed to its peak in May 2026.

Google Trends now

64/100 +94%

Five-year peak

84/100 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 receptionist search trends page

Fewer visits than a year ago only because of Phonely, but more people searching by name, and the next six months look flat after a step up.

The losers, led by Phonely, lost most of their search visits (-100%).

Visits vs August 2026

-34%

Biggest gain this month

ServiceAgent +75%

Biggest loss this month

Goodcall -37%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like Goodcall’s +90% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

Open the AI receptionist monthly analysis page

I expect October 2026 to be 9% more than September 2026, and the next six months to look up.

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 busier month than average for searches, but the calendar did not improve the forecast, so it is left out.

Expected in October 2026

499,699 visits

Likely range

307K to 692K

Expected in April 2027

500K +9%

Past forecasts in range

3 of 6 months

Miles explains

Read the range, not the single number: tested on the last 6 months, my method landed inside its range 3 times.

Open the AI receptionist monthly forecast page

The most visited is Goodcall, with 405,856 visits a month, 89% of all visits.

Goodcall and ServiceAgent together hold 93% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 10 sites share 2%.

Top five sites

98% of all visits

Visits from the US

60.1%

Largest markets outside the US

Canada, India and United Kingdom

Sites tracked

15

Miles explains

Goodcall alone has 89% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI receptionist industry report page

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

Cite as: Miles Foster, “AI Receptionist Statistics, September 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/ai-receptionist/statistics

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