Is the AI anime generator market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▼ Shrinking
- Visits, year on year, without Fotor
- -16%
- Visits, last six months
- -48%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- -26%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 17 AI anime generator 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 6.8 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, Fotor; without it, visits are down 16% on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 227% in a year while another lost 93% 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 anime generator market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 17 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google6.8Mvisits-55% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US382Ksearches-26% vs October 2025
- Top five sites90.5%of visitsfastest grower: DomoAI
- Expected in November6.4Mvisitslikely 5.5M to 7.4M
- The AI anime generator market is shrinking as of October 2026.
- The 17 AI anime generator sites RankDude tracks got 6,779,370 visits from Google search in October 2026, 55% fewer visits than in October 2025, or 16% fewer without Fotor.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 381,800 times in September 2026, 26% fewer searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI anime generator sites get 90.5% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI anime generator site over the year: DomoAI, +227% (120K to 392K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Hotpot.ai, -93% (535K to 35.4K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 6.4M visits, likely between 5.5M and 7.4M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI anime generator sites than a year ago?
Down 55% on a year ago; down 19% on September 2026
No. The 17 tracked AI anime generator sites got 6,779,370 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 55% fewer visits than in October 2025, or 16% fewer without Fotor, and 19% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was January 2025, with 16,654,937 visits; October 2026 is 59% below it. In the US, visits were 533,251, down 49% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI anime generator sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
6.8M
-55.2% on a year ago
United States, this month
533K
-49.2% on a year ago
Two-year high
17M
January 2025
US share of visits
7.9%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago and lower than in September 2026, so the fall is still going. Name searches (-26%) and Google Trends interest in the term (-55%) fell too, so people are less interested, not just finding these sites less often.
2.Are people searching for AI anime generator sites by name?
Down 26% on October 2025; 382K name searches a month in the US
Fewer than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI anime generator sites 381,800 times in September 2026, 26% fewer 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 anime generator” itself gets about 5,400 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI anime generator sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI anime generator sites by name, searches a month
Miles explains
Name searches are down, so fewer people are coming back on purpose. Better Google rankings will not fix that.
3.Which AI anime generator sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 90.5% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 99.5%
The five most-visited AI anime generator sites get 90.5% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: DomoAI, from 119,819 to 392,209 visits (+227%). Steepest fall: Hotpot.ai, from 534,839 to 35,389 visits (-93%).
Falling fastest, year on year
Hotpot.ai35.4K visits-93%
Fotor3.2M visits-70%
Waifu Labs4.4K visits-58%
Leonardo.Ai1.7M visits-25%
NovelAI84.5K visits-24%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.