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Updated 11/01/2026 Ā· next update 12/01/2026

AI agent market forecast, November 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The forecastā–² Risingthrough May 2027

November vs October
+2.6%
May 2027, six months out
+7.8%
Past forecasts in range
6 of 6

Each month I forecast Google visits to the AI agent sites I track, then score myself when the real number lands. For November 2026 I expect about 4.4 million visits, about the same as in October 2026.

Below: how my last forecast did, the next six months and site by site.

Made 1 November 2026 from the October 2026 data. Data from DataForSEO, Google Trends via SerpApi, Tranco and Ahrefs Ā· not a ranking

AI agent forecast: the key numbers for November 2026

02.5M5.0M7.5M10MForecastMeasuredNov 25Feb 26May 26Aug 26Nov 26Feb 27May 274.4M3.0M to 6.2M
MeasuredForecastLikely range

Visits from Google search to the tracked sites, a month. Hover or tap the chart for each month.

  • The AI agent sites RankDude tracks got 4,258,933 visits from Google search in October 2026.
  • The forecast for November 2026 is 4,368,717 visits, about the same as October 2026, likely between 3.4M and 5.3M.
  • That is up on November 2025, when the same sites had 2,616,516 visits.

1How did the October 2026 forecast do?

In plain words: Last monthā€™s forecast landed inside its range, 1% off. A hit.

In the October 2026 edition the forecast said October 2026 would bring about 4,204,011 search visits, somewhere between 3.2M and 5.2M. It brought 4,258,933. That landed inside the range, the month landing 1% above the forecast. That is a good month for a forecast.

Made in

  • October 2026
    Months ahead
    1
    Forecast
    4,204,011
    Range
    3.2M to 5.2M
    Actual
    4,258,933
    Miss
    +1.3%
    Result
    in range

Source: DataForSEO.

Site by site

Site

  • Manus
    Forecast
    1,371,741
    Range
    1.1M to 1.6M
    Actual
    1,116,055
    Miss
    -18.6%
    Result
    missed
  • Genspark
    Forecast
    877,147
    Range
    415K to 1.3M
    Actual
    1,016,290
    Miss
    +15.9%
    Result
    in range
  • OpenClaw
    Forecast
    764,155
    Range
    306K to 1.2M
    Actual
    737,966
    Miss
    -3.4%
    Result
    in range
  • Skywork
    Forecast
    668,385
    Range
    524K to 813K
    Actual
    803,002
    Miss
    +20.1%
    Result
    in range
  • Sai by Simular
    Forecast
    196,712
    Range
    78.7K to 315K
    Actual
    281,577
    Miss
    +43.1%
    Result
    in range
  • Hermes Agent
    Forecast
    87,490
    Range
    35.0K to 140K
    Actual
    142,640
    Miss
    +63.0%
    Result
    missed
  • Flowith
    Forecast
    81,328
    Range
    41.5K to 121K
    Actual
    96,504
    Miss
    +18.7%
    Result
    in range
  • Agnes AI
    Forecast
    59,328
    Range
    52.3K to 66.4K
    Actual
    ā€“
    Miss
    ā€“
    Result
    missed
  • Sintra
    Forecast
    23,563
    Range
    10.4K to 36.7K
    Actual
    23,873
    Miss
    +1.3%
    Result
    in range
  • MiniMax Agent
    Forecast
    12,285
    Range
    6.5K to 18.1K
    Actual
    11,925
    Miss
    -2.9%
    Result
    in range

7 of 10 site forecasts landed in range.

The backtest, month by month

Month

  • May 2026
    Would have forecast
    2,035,865
    Range
    1.4M to 2.6M
    Actual
    2,455,637
    Miss
    +20.6%
    Result
    in range
  • June 2026
    Would have forecast
    2,394,109
    Range
    1.8M to 3.0M
    Actual
    2,723,344
    Miss
    +13.8%
    Result
    in range
  • July 2026
    Would have forecast
    2,375,739
    Range
    1.8M to 2.9M
    Actual
    2,932,710
    Miss
    +23.4%
    Result
    in range
  • August 2026
    Would have forecast
    2,969,796
    Range
    2.3M to 3.7M
    Actual
    3,403,649
    Miss
    +14.6%
    Result
    in range
  • September 2026
    Would have forecast
    3,408,194
    Range
    2.6M to 4.2M
    Actual
    4,157,195
    Miss
    +22.0%
    Result
    in range
  • October 2026
    Would have forecast
    4,138,716
    Range
    3.2M to 5.1M
    Actual
    4,258,933
    Miss
    +2.9%
    Result
    in range

Each row uses only data from before that month.

The running scorecard

Months ahead

  • 1
    Forecasts scored
    1
    In range
    1 of 1
    Average miss
    1.3%

Across 1 earlier edition, every forecast for a month that has since closed.

Miles explains

6 of 6 in range is honest, not perfect. The biggest miss was July 2026 (+23%), the kind of month when one big site jumps. Thatā€™s why the range is wide.

2What is the market doing now?

Visits are up on a year ago (+112%), and the last three months were higher than the three before. Name searches are up (+62% since October 2025). Recent months are getting stronger; the forecast expects November 2026 to be about the same as October 2026.

Visits, October 2026
4,258,933 (+2.4% on the month before, +111.8% on a year ago)
Last 3 months vs the 3 before
+45.7%
24-month peak
4,258,933 in October 2026
Name searches, US
+62.0% since October 2025
Google Trends, "ai agents"
48/100 (+41.2% on a year ago)
12-month trend
+5.5% a month; the forecast carries part of the slope, fading

WorldChange in visits, month on month, worldwide

+40%+20%0%-20%-40%May 25Aug 25Nov 25Feb 26May 26Aug 26Oct 26

Green grew, red shrank. Source: DataForSEO.

Miles explains

Big green or red bars are usually one site winning or losing a Google ranking, not the whole market moving. What I watch is the last three months against the three before: +46%.

3Is November usually a big month or a quiet one?

No seasonal pattern is used in this forecast: the five-year Google Trends series for "ai agents" has too many empty months (26 of 60, the last in December 2023) to read a seasonal pattern from.

On the calendar, November brings Black Friday and Cyber Monday and Thanksgiving (US). Once the Google Trends series for the term can be read month by month, this section scores each month against an average month and tests whether that helps the forecast.

4What to expect in November 2026

About 4.4M visits in November 2026, about the same as October 2026. The likely range is 3.4M to 5.3M.

Measure

  • Search visits, worldwide
    Last known
    4,258,933
    Forecast
    4,368,717
    Range
    3.4M to 5.3M
  • Search visits, US
    Last known
    482,122
    Forecast
    488,315
    Range
    427K to 549K
  • Brand-name searches a month, US (last known: September 2026)
    Last known
    136,770
    Forecast
    127,863
    Range
    58.7K to 197K
  • Searches for ā€œai agentsā€, US (last known: September 2026)
    Last known
    74,000
    Forecast
    70,326
    Range
    46.5K to 94.2K

Source: DataForSEO and Google Ads.

5What to expect over the next six months

By May 2027 the forecast expects about 4,590,247 visits a month, +8% on the 4,258,933 of October 2026, so the next six months look like growth.

Month

  • December 2026
    Worldwide visits
    4,444,037
    Range
    3.4M to 5.5M
    US visits
    495,498
    Range
    427K to 564K
  • January 2027
    Worldwide visits
    4,496,761
    Range
    3.3M to 5.7M
    US visits
    500,526
    Range
    425K to 576K
  • February 2027
    Worldwide visits
    4,533,668
    Range
    3.2M to 5.8M
    US visits
    504,045
    Range
    422K to 586K
  • March 2027
    Worldwide visits
    4,559,503
    Range
    3.2M to 6.0M
    US visits
    506,509
    Range
    418K to 595K
  • April 2027
    Worldwide visits
    4,577,588
    Range
    3.1M to 6.1M
    US visits
    508,234
    Range
    413K to 604K
  • May 2027
    Worldwide visits
    4,590,247
    Range
    3.0M to 6.2M
    US visits
    509,441
    Range
    408K to 611K

6What the forecast expects for the ten most-visited sites

The forecast expects Manus (+3%), Flowith (+4%) and MiniMax Agent (+5%) to rise, and AutoGPT (-16%) to fall; the rest are within 3% of October 2026. Single sites are harder to forecast than the whole market, so their ranges are wider.

Site

  • Manus
    October 2026
    1,116,055
    November 2026 forecast
    1,154,409
    Range
    963K to 1.3M
    Change
    +3.4%
  • Genspark
    October 2026
    1,016,290
    November 2026 forecast
    995,419
    Range
    471K to 1.5M
    Change
    -2.1%
  • Skywork
    October 2026
    803,002
    November 2026 forecast
    782,809
    Range
    625K to 940K
    Change
    -2.5%
  • OpenClaw
    October 2026
    737,966
    November 2026 forecast
    738,074
    Range
    603K to 873K
    Change
    0%
  • Sai by Simular
    October 2026
    281,577
    November 2026 forecast
    285,787
    Range
    114K to 457K
    Change
    +1.5%
  • Hermes Agent
    October 2026
    142,640
    November 2026 forecast
    142,509
    Range
    57.0K to 228K
    Change
    -0.1%
  • Flowith
    October 2026
    96,504
    November 2026 forecast
    100,247
    Range
    51.1K to 149K
    Change
    +3.9%
  • Sintra
    October 2026
    23,873
    November 2026 forecast
    23,827
    Range
    10.6K to 37.1K
    Change
    -0.2%
  • AutoGPT
    October 2026
    16,593
    November 2026 forecast
    13,978
    Range
    7.9K to 20.1K
    Change
    -15.8%
  • MiniMax Agent
    October 2026
    11,925
    November 2026 forecast
    12,456
    Range
    8.7K to 16.2K
    Change
    +4.5%

Source: DataForSEO.

Together the ten come to 4,249,515, inside the market forecast of 4,368,717 for every tracked site.

Miles explains

MiniMax Agent has the biggest expected rise (+5%). Single sites are much harder to call than the whole market, so read these as direction, not promises.

7What could change the forecast

What could knock November 2026 off course:

  • A big site winning or losing a page-one position for ā€œai agentsā€.
  • A Google update.
  • A site going offline.
  • A news story that spikes interest for a week and then fades.

None of these are in the numbers until they happen, which is why the range exists.

AI agent forecasts, month by month

This page is rewritten every month when the monthā€™s data is in. Edition 2, the forecast for November 2026, was made on 1 November 2026; the next one replaces it on 1 December 2026, and marks this one against the figures that land that day. The forecasts before it, and how they scored:

  1. Edition 1 Ā· for October 2026

    What October 2026 will bring: the AI agent market, forecast

    The forecast for October 2026, made on 22 October 2026 from everything the September 2026 data shows: about 4,204,011 search visits across the tracked sites, down 0.3% on the month before. Plus the six months after it, and an honest look at how the method has scored on past months.

    Forecast
    4.2M
    Actual
    4.3M
    Result
    in range

    Made 22 October 2026 Ā· range 3.2M to 5.2M Ā· off by 1.3%