Is the AI agent market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▲ Growing
- Visits, year on year
- +112%
- Visits, last six months
- +102%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- +62%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 13 AI agent sites I track (DataForSEO estimates) and how often people in the US search for them by name (Google Ads). In October 2026 they got about 4.3 million visits.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 285% in a year while another lost 87% of its visits. See who grew and who shrank, the visits month by month and the name searches, plus what I expect for November 2026.
AI agent market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 13 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google4.3Mvisits+112% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US137Ksearches+62% vs October 2025
- Top five sites92.9%of visitsfastest grower: Manus
- Expected in November4.4Mvisitslikely 3.4M to 5.3M
- The AI agent market is growing as of October 2026.
- The 13 AI agent sites RankDude tracks got 4,258,933 visits from Google search in October 2026, 112% more visits than in October 2025.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 136,770 times in September 2026, 62% more searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI agent sites get 92.9% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI agent site over the year: Manus, +285% (290K to 1.1M visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: AgentGPT, -87% (19.2K to 2.5K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 4.4M visits, likely between 3.4M and 5.3M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 1 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI agent sites than a year ago?
Up 112% on a year ago; about level with September 2026 (+2%)
Yes. The 13 tracked AI agent sites got 4,258,933 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 112% more visits than in October 2025, and about the same as in September 2026.
October 2026 is the highest month of the last two years. In the US, visits were 482,122, up 204% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI agent sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
4.3M
+111.8% on a year ago
United States, this month
482K
+203.9% on a year ago
Two-year high
4.3M
October 2026
US share of visits
11.3%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
More visits than a year ago means new people are still finding AI agent sites through Google.
2.Are people searching for AI agent sites by name?
Up 62% on October 2025; 137K name searches a month in the US
Yes, more than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI agent sites 136,770 times in September 2026, 62% more searches than in October 2025. Someone who searches a site’s name already knows it, so this is the clearest sign of people coming back on purpose. The term “ai agents” itself gets about 49,500 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI agent sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI agent sites by name, searches a month
Miles explains
Name searches are up 62%. This number does not change when Google reshuffles its results, so it is the most reliable sign of growth on this page.
3.Which AI agent sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 92.9% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 99.7%
The five most-visited AI agent sites get 92.9% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Manus, from 290,065 to 1,116,055 visits (+285%). Steepest fall: AgentGPT, from 19,172 to 2,473 visits (-87%).
Falling fastest, year on year
AgentGPT2.5K visits-87%
AutoGPT16.6K visits-20%
Genspark1.0M visits-13%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.