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Updated 10/15/2026 · next update 11/01/2026

AI receptionist market, September 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growingbut visits are down 68% since April 2026

Visits, year on year, without Phonely
+100%
Visits vs August 2026
-34%
Name searches vs October 2025
+30%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 15 AI receptionist sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In September 2026 they got about 456,825 visits, 7% fewer than a year ago and 34% fewer than in August 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 90% in a year), who sits highest on Google, where the visitors live and what comes next.

Data from DataForSEO, Tranco, Chrome UX Report, Ahrefs and SerpApi · not a ranking

AI receptionist market: the key numbers for September 2026

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

  • The tracked sites got 456,825 visits from Google in September 2026, 7% fewer than a year ago and 34% fewer than in August 2026. Phonely lost more visits on its own than the whole market lost in a year. Without it, visits would be up 100.0% on a year ago instead of down 7.3%. Goodcall lost more visits in September 2026 (240,263) than the whole market did (231,474); without it, visits to the other sites rose 20.8% on August 2026.
  • Google Ads gives no search figure I can publish for “ai receptionist” this month. People searched the site names 16,210 times in the US in September 2026, 30% more often than in October 2025.
  • No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai receptionist”; the highest is NextPhone, at position 14. Goodcall is the most-visited site.
  • 60.1% of visits came from the US (55.3% a year ago), then Canada, India and United Kingdom. The five most-visited sites took 98% of all visits.

1How many visits

In plain words: These sites got fewer visits from Google than a year ago (-7%), and September 2026 was a weaker month than August 2026 (-34%). Phonely lost more visits on its own than the whole market lost in a year. Without it, visits would be up 100.0% on a year ago instead of down 7.3%. Goodcall lost more visits in September 2026 (240,263) than the whole market did (231,474); without it, visits to the other sites rose 20.8% on August 2026.

Visits, September 2026
456,825 (-7.3% on a year ago, -33.6% on August 2026)
US visits
274,404 (+0.6% on a year ago)
24-month peak
1,440,678 in April 2026

WorldVisits a month to AI receptionist sites, worldwide

0500K1.0M1.5M2.0MOct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26457K
Low 19.7KHigh 1.4MAverage 479K
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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 7% below a year ago, and 68% below the April 2026 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

2How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 30% more often than in October 2025 (+30%). That is the loyalty number, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai receptionist"
no figure this month
Name searches, September 2026
16,210 in the US (+30.1% since October 2025), 105,150 worldwide

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

05.0K10.0K15.0K20.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2616.2K
Low 9.6KHigh 16.9KAverage 13.3K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Most searched by name, US

  • Avoca AI
    Searches a month
    3,600
  • Goodcall
    Searches a month
    2,900
  • Loman AI
    Searches a month
    1,900
  • Phonely
    Searches a month
    1,900
  • Slang.ai
    Searches a month
    1,600
  • Arini
    Searches a month
    1,300
  • Ringly
    Searches a month
    1,000
  • Sameday AI
    Searches a month
    720

Ordered by US searches for the brand name in September 2026. A measured order, not a ranking.

Rising next to the term on Google Trends: “nhs england ai receptionist advice”.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are up 30%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows more people coming back on purpose.

3Who is on Google's first page

No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai receptionist”; the highest-placed is NextPhone, at position 14. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

Ordered by US Google position for “ai receptionist”, then Tranco rank. A measured order, not a ranking.

Site

  • NextPhone
    Google US
    14
    Tranco
    1,547,102
    Move in 16 days
    ▲ 838,724
    Search visits
    945
  • Numa
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    269,775
    Move in 16 days
    ▼ 22,546
    Search visits
    2,215
  • Avoca AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    301,928
    Move in 16 days
    ▲ 79,746
    Search visits
    12,381
  • Goodcall
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    321,349
    Move in 16 days
    ▲ 27,849
    Search visits
    405,856
  • Phonely
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    434,028
    Move in 16 days
    ▲ 111,817
    Search visits
    1,279
  • Ringly
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    680,816
    Move in 16 days
    ▲ 304,645
    Search visits
    5,720
  • Loman AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    713,081
    Move in 16 days
    ▲ 232,261
    Search visits
    1,518
  • Sameday AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,062,667
    Move in 16 days
    ▲ 876,219
    Search visits
    426
  • Slang.ai
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,236,201
    Move in 16 days
    ▲ 198,440
    Search visits
    1,042
  • ServiceAgent
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,316,436
    Move in 16 days
    ▼ 110,130
    Search visits
    17,538
  • echowin
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,936,513
    Move in 16 days
    ▼ 39,828
    Search visits
    122
  • Arini
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    2,660,486
    Move in 16 days
    ▲ 1,627,714
    Search visits
    1,258
  • STELLA Automotive AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    2,869,091
    Move in 16 days
    ▲ 1,503,080
    Search visits
    463
  • Voksha
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    4,548,112
    Move in 16 days
    ▼ 142,824
    Search visits
    14
  • AIRA
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    –
    Move in 16 days
    –
    Search visits
    6,048

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, September 2026. First 15 of 15 sites shown.

Miles explains

No tracked site sits high on Google for “ai receptionist”, so most visits here come from people who already know the names.

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in September 2026: ServiceAgent (+75%); biggest loss: Goodcall (-37%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in September 2026

Up this month

  • ServiceAgent
    Aug 26
    10,045
    Sep 26
    17,538
    Change
    +74.6%

Down this month

  • Goodcall
    Aug 26
    646,119
    Sep 26
    405,856
    Change
    -37.2%
  • Avoca AI
    Aug 26
    17,634
    Sep 26
    12,381
    Change
    -29.8%

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

  • Goodcall
    Oct 25
    1,900
    Sep 26
    2,900
    Change
    +52.6%
  • Avoca AI
    Oct 25
    2,400
    Sep 26
    3,600
    Change
    +50.0%
  • Loman AI
    Oct 25
    1,300
    Sep 26
    1,900
    Change
    +46.2%
  • Slang.ai
    Oct 25
    1,300
    Sep 26
    1,600
    Change
    +23.1%
  • Phonely
    Oct 25
    1,600
    Sep 26
    1,900
    Change
    +18.8%

Searched less

  • Sameday AI
    Oct 25
    1,000
    Sep 26
    720
    Change
    -28.0%

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 60 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
60.1% (55.3% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
Canada, India and United Kingdom

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

0255075100Oct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2660.1
Low 42.6High 71Average 59
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    23,368
    Share of the measured countries
    75.6%
  • India
    Search visits a month
    5,916
    Share of the measured countries
    19.1%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    901
    Share of the measured countries
    2.9%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    254
    Share of the measured countries
    0.8%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    222
    Share of the measured countries
    0.7%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    160
    Share of the measured countries
    0.5%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    87
    Share of the measured countries
    0.3%

Source: DataForSEO, September 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the single biggest market, but only about 60 in every 100 visits. Canada alone is 75.6% of the countries I measure outside it.

6Links and ratings

The tracked sites had 20,431 referring domains between them in September 2026; this is the first reading, so there is no year-on-year figure yet. The average Domain Rating is 55. Ringly has the strongest link profile at DR 73.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

  • Ringly
    DR
    73
  • Goodcall
    DR
    71
  • Avoca AI
    DR
    61
  • Loman AI
    DR
    61
  • Numa
    DR
    61
  • AIRA
    DR
    60
  • NextPhone
    DR
    58
  • Slang.ai
    DR
    57

By referring domains

  • Goodcall
    Domains
    4,711
  • Numa
    Domains
    2,935
  • NextPhone
    Domains
    1,803
  • Voksha
    Domains
    1,773
  • STELLA Automotive AI
    Domains
    1,661
  • Ringly
    Domains
    1,321
  • Slang.ai
    Domains
    1,005
  • Phonely
    Domains
    977

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, September 2026.