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Two sites ate the AI girlfriend boom. One grew 35 times.

Candy AI and OurDream.ai grabbed most of the new visits, while famous old chatbots quietly faded.

Written by Miles Foster, Owner and tester, RankDude. / 2 min read

Candy AI's visits from Google jumped about 35 times in a year, to about 592,000 a month. RankDude data shows OurDream.ai grew about 18 times too. Together they took about six in ten of all new visits. But that's not the strange part.

The short version

  • 35x: Candy AI's growth in visits from Google in a year.
  • 18x: OurDream.ai's growth over the same 12 months.
  • 6 in 10: the share of new visits these two took.
  • -95.5%: what Kuki AI, once the famous Mitsuku, lost.

WorldCandy AI's visits from Google

0250K500K750K1.0MSep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Sep 26592K
Low 16.7KHigh 683KAverage 398K
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Raw monthly estimates, worldwide. Source: RankDude analysis of DataForSEO data.

Two sites, one boom

Google sent about 8.5 million visits to AI girlfriend sites in September 2026. These are estimates, not exact counts.

A year earlier it was about 7 million. That's a gain of roughly 1.4 million visits a month, or about 21%.

Now the twist. Candy AI alone added about 575,000 of those. OurDream.ai added about 285,000.

Take those two away and the boom looks much flatter. That's wild.

Candy AI is now the third most visited site, behind SpicyChat and CrushOn AI. OurDream.ai sits sixth.

You can see the full list on the AI girlfriend statistics page.

So is it smooth sailing from here? Not quite.

The numbers

Visits from Google, a year apart.

Candy AI, in a year16.7K to 592K
35x
OurDream.ai, in a year16.5K to 301K
18x
Kuki AI, in a yearonce called Mitsuku
-95.5%

A bumpy ride

The yearly gain hides a wobbly middle. Visits peaked at about 9.1 million in February 2026.

Then they slid to about 6 million in July. By September they were back to about 8.5 million.

Even Candy AI slipped, down 13% from August. OurDream.ai went the other way, from about 231,000 to about 301,000.

I tested OurDream.ai myself. My OurDream review shows what you really get. I have not tested Candy AI.

And while these two climbed, some famous names were sliding fast.

Where did Kuki go?

Kuki AI lost 95.5% of its visits from Google. You might know it by its old name, Mitsuku.

It won the Loebner Prize five times. That's a contest for the most human-like chatbot.

US searches for its name fell from about 1,900 a month to about 390. Ouch.

It's not alone. Dippy fell 82%. Nomi.ai lost two thirds. Replika lost 58%, and Joyland about half.

My guess? People now want pictures, voice and video, not just chat. That's my reading, not something the data proves.

“Two newcomers grabbed the boom while the old chatbots got left behind.”

Miles Foster

How I measured this

These are DataForSEO estimates of monthly visits from Google, worldwide, from September 2025 to September 2026. Name searches are US Google Ads figures to August 2026, and none of this counts people.

Market totals smooth out one-off spikes, but the Candy AI chart shows raw figures. More on my methodology page and DataForSEO page.

Source: RankDude analysis of DataForSEO data, September 2026.

On this site

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, “Kuki AI”, 18 October 2026.

Figures about the sites I track come from RankDude’s own monthly data (DataForSEO, Google Ads keyword data, Tranco, Google Chrome UX Report, Ahrefs, SerpApi, Google Trends, YouTube and Reddit); the figures here are for September 2026, published 8 October 2026, next update 1 November 2026. Each tool is explained on the testing tools pages. Reported facts about other companies are as published by the sources above.

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude. Miles Foster owns RankDude and runs every hands-on test in person: one written procedure per category, the same sample sizes and scoring for every tool in it, with the measurements and screenshots published on each review's full test results.

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