AI agent statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 13 AI agent sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google4.3Mvisits+112% vs a year ago
• Google searches301Ksearchesfor "ai agents"
• Most visited site1.1MvisitsManus, 26% of all
• Expected in November4.4Mvisits+3% vs last month

• 4,258,933 Google visits went to the 13 AI agent sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 112% more than a year earlier.
• Growing: the AI agent market is growing.
• 301,000 searches a month for “ai agents” worldwide, 16% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 26% of all visits go to Manus, the most-visited dedicated AI agent; the five most-visited take 92.9%.
• 11.3% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Brazil and Canada.
• 4,368,717 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 3.4M and 5.3M.

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

Growing.

Over two years, visits went from 132K in November 2024 to a high of 4.3M in October 2026, and stand at 4.3M in October 2026. Five sites take 92.9% of visits, so one ranking change at the top moves the whole line.

Visits, year on year

+112%

Visits, last six months

+102%

Name searches, US

+62%

Busiest month (2 years)

October 2026, 4.3M 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.

Open the AI agent market demand page

“ai agents” is searched about 301,000 times a month worldwide, 16% of it in the US.

Google Trends barely registered “ai agents” until June 2025; interest then climbed to its peak in May 2026. Americans make 16% of the searches but only 11.3% of the visits, because the big sites also draw heavily from India, Brazil and Canada.

Searches a month, US

49,500

Google Trends now

48/100 +41%

Five-year peak

96/100 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 agent search trends page

More visits than a year ago, more people searching by name, and the next six months look like growth.

The fastest growers over the year, Manus, Skywork and Sintra, grew fastest, mostly from a smaller base. The losers, led by AgentGPT, lost most of their search visits (-87%).

Visits vs September 2026

+2%

Biggest gain this month

Hermes Agent +56%

Biggest loss this month

Manus -17%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like Manus’s +285% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

Open the AI agent monthly analysis page

I expect November 2026 to be about the same as October 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 November 2026

4,368,717 visits

Likely range

3.4M to 5.3M

Expected in May 2027

4.6M +8%

Past forecasts in range

6 of 6 months

Miles explains

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

Open the AI agent monthly forecast page

The most visited is Manus, with 1.1 million visits a month, 26% of all visits.

Manus and Genspark together hold 50% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 8 sites share 7.1%.

Top five sites

92.9% of all visits

Visits from the US

11.3%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Brazil and Canada

Sites tracked

13

Miles explains

Manus alone has 26% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI agent industry report page

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

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

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