AI voice agent statistics, September 2026

Four numbers for September 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 9 AI voice agent sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google603Kvisits-24% vs a year ago
• Most visited site433KvisitsPolyAI, 72% of all
• Expected in October624Kvisits+4% vs last month

• 602,538 Google visits went to the 9 AI voice agent sites RankDude tracks in September 2026, 24% fewer than a year earlier (15% fewer without PolyAI).
• Shrinking: the AI voice agent market is shrinking.
• 72% of all visits go to PolyAI, the most-visited AI voice agent; the five most-visited take 97.4%.
• 23.4% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Canada and the United Kingdom.
• 624,410 visits expected in October 2026, likely between 508K and 741K.

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

Shrinking.

Over two years, visits went from 104K in October 2024 to a high of 1.2M in April 2026, and stand at 603K in September 2026. Much of the year’s change is one site, PolyAI, which is why I also look at the market without it.

Visits, year on year

-15%

Visits, last six months

-42%

Name searches, US

-3%

Busiest month (2 years)

April 2026, 1.2M visits

Miles explains

I only call a market growing when visits and name searches agree. Here visits are down and name searches are level, so they don’t agree yet.

Open the AI voice agent market demand page

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

Google Trends now

34/100 0%

Five-year peak

92/100 in May 2026

Miles explains

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

Open the AI voice agent search trends page

Fewer visits than a year ago, name searches holding steady, and the next six months look flat after a step up.

The fastest growers over the year, Retell AI and Cresta, grew fastest, mostly from a smaller base. The losers, led by Regal, lost most of their search visits (-95%).

Visits vs August 2026

-18%

Biggest gain this month

Retell AI +10%

Biggest loss this month

SquadStack -67%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like Retell AI’s +333% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

Open the AI voice agent monthly analysis page

I expect October 2026 to be 4% 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.

Expected in October 2026

624,410 visits

Likely range

508K to 741K

Expected in April 2027

624K +4%

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 voice agent monthly forecast page

The most visited is PolyAI, with 433,416 visits a month, 72% of all visits.

PolyAI and Retell AI together hold 86% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 4 sites share 2.6%.

Top five sites

97.4% of all visits

Visits from the US

23.4%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Canada and United Kingdom

Sites tracked

9

Miles explains

PolyAI alone has 72% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI voice agent industry report page

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

Cite as: Miles Foster, “AI Voice Agents Statistics, September 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/ai-voice-agents/statistics

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