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

AI answering service market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year
-40%
Visits vs September 2026
-17%
Name searches vs October 2025
-6.7%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 21 AI answering service sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 486,043 visits, 40% fewer than a year ago and 17% fewer than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 29% in a year), who sits highest on Google, where the visitors live and what comes next.

Data from DataForSEO, Tranco, Chrome UX Report, Ahrefs and SerpApi · not a ranking

AI answering service market: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

  • The tracked sites got 486,043 visits from Google in October 2026, 40% fewer than a year ago and 17% fewer than in September 2026. Goodcall alone takes 72% of the visits, so the totals mostly follow it. Without it, visits would be down 71.6% on a year ago instead of down 39.7%. Goodcall made most of the move in October 2026: it lost 56,095 of the market's 101,363 visits; without it, visits to the other sites fell 24.9% on September 2026.
  • Google Ads gives no search figure I can publish for “ai answering service” this month. People searched the site names 12,080 times in the US in September 2026, 7% less often than in October 2025.
  • 1 tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai answering service”; the highest is Rosie at position 3. Goodcall is the most-visited site.
  • 65.5% of visits came from the US (53.5% a year ago), then Canada, India and United Kingdom. The five most-visited sites took 95.7% of all visits.

1How many visits

In plain words: These sites got fewer visits from Google than a year ago (-40%), and October 2026 was a weaker month than September 2026 (-17%). Goodcall alone takes 72% of the visits, so the totals mostly follow it. Without it, visits would be down 71.6% on a year ago instead of down 39.7%. Goodcall made most of the move in October 2026: it lost 56,095 of the market's 101,363 visits; without it, visits to the other sites fell 24.9% on September 2026.

Visits, October 2026
486,043 (-39.7% on a year ago, -17.3% on September 2026)
US visits
318,227 (-26.1% on a year ago)
24-month peak
1,735,031 in April 2026

WorldVisits a month to AI answering service sites, worldwide

0500K1.0M1.5M2.0MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26486K
Low 72.5KHigh 1.7MAverage 682K
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Miles explains

Judge this line on the year, not the last dot: visits are 40% below a year ago, and 72% below the April 2026 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

2How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 7% less often than in October 2025 (-7%). That is the loyalty number, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai answering service"
no figure this month
Name searches, September 2026
12,080 in the US (-6.7% since October 2025), 26,740 worldwide

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

05.0K10.0K15.0K20.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2612.1K
Low 10.9KHigh 15.4KAverage 13.1K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Most searched by name, US

  • Smith.ai
    Searches a month
    3,600
  • Goodcall
    Searches a month
    2,900
  • Loman AI
    Searches a month
    1,900
  • Abby Connect
    Searches a month
    1,300
  • Sameday AI
    Searches a month
    720
  • Dialzara
    Searches a month
    480
  • NextPhone
    Searches a month
    480
  • Frontdesk (My AI Front Desk)
    Searches a month
    320

Ordered by US searches for the brand name in September 2026. A measured order, not a ranking.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are down 7%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows fewer people coming back on purpose.

3Who is on Google's first page

1 tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai answering service”; the highest-placed is Rosie, at position 3. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

Ordered by US Google position for “ai answering service”, then Tranco rank. A measured order, not a ranking.

Site

  • Rosie
    Google US
    3
    Tranco
    497,178
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 125,543
    Search visits
    1,309
  • Upfirst
    Google US
    11
    Tranco
    1,863,827
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 306,923
    Search visits
    3,497
  • Smith.ai
    Google US
    15
    Tranco
    165,378
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 17,547
    Search visits
    17,504
  • Goodcall
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    322,973
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 12,799
    Search visits
    349,761
  • Moneypenny
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    369,543
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 16,361
    Search visits
    8,278
  • Frontdesk (My AI Front Desk)
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    396,400
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 2,524
    Search visits
    81,430
  • Phonely
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    510,416
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 29,440
    Search visits
    983
  • Newo
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    546,276
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 24,185
    Search visits
    1,204
  • Loman AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    677,955
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 42,153
    Search visits
    2,233
  • Dialzara
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    747,998
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 157,945
    Search visits
    1,080
  • Sameday AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    858,663
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 778,131
    Search visits
    401
  • Abby Connect
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,080,107
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 41,678
    Search visits
    2,216
  • Nexa
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,314,125
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 93,903
    Search visits
    2,644
  • Botphonic
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,384,974
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 117,175
    Search visits
    117
  • NextPhone
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,488,130
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 581,456
    Search visits
    1,272

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 15 of 21 sites shown.

Miles explains

No tracked site sits high on Google for “ai answering service”, so most visits here come from people who already know the names.

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Smith.ai (+17%); biggest loss: Frontdesk (My AI Front Desk) (-38%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

  • Smith.ai
    Sep 26
    14,923
    Oct 26
    17,504
    Change
    +17.3%

Down this month

  • Frontdesk (My AI Front Desk)
    Sep 26
    131,904
    Oct 26
    81,430
    Change
    -38.3%
  • Goodcall
    Sep 26
    405,856
    Oct 26
    349,761
    Change
    -13.8%
  • Moneypenny
    Sep 26
    8,458
    Oct 26
    8,278
    Change
    -2.1%
  • Posh
    Sep 26
    8,409
    Oct 26
    8,284
    Change
    -1.5%

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

  • Goodcall
    Oct 25
    1,900
    Sep 26
    2,900
    Change
    +52.6%
  • Loman AI
    Oct 25
    1,300
    Sep 26
    1,900
    Change
    +46.2%

Searched less

  • Smith.ai
    Oct 25
    5,400
    Sep 26
    3,600
    Change
    -33.3%
  • Sameday AI
    Oct 25
    1,000
    Sep 26
    720
    Change
    -28.0%

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 66 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
65.5% (53.5% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
Canada, India and United Kingdom

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

0255075100Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2665.5
Low 38.4High 65.5Average 54
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    27,753
    Share of the measured countries
    62.8%
  • India
    Search visits a month
    10,105
    Share of the measured countries
    22.9%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    5,134
    Share of the measured countries
    11.6%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    375
    Share of the measured countries
    0.8%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    346
    Share of the measured countries
    0.8%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    295
    Share of the measured countries
    0.7%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    155
    Share of the measured countries
    0.4%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the single biggest market, but only about 66 in every 100 visits. Canada alone is 62.8% of the countries I measure outside it.

6Links and ratings

Referring domains were not measured for October 2026. The average Domain Rating is 56. Smith.ai has the strongest link profile at DR 76.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

  • Smith.ai
    DR
    76
  • Goodcall
    DR
    72
  • Moneypenny
    DR
    72
  • Dialzara
    DR
    70
  • Rosie
    DR
    68
  • Frontdesk (My AI Front Desk)
    DR
    66
  • Loman AI
    DR
    62
  • NextPhone
    DR
    62

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.

AI answering service analysis, month by month

This page is rewritten every month from that month’s frozen snapshot. Edition 2, for October 2026, was published on 1 November 2026; the next one replaces it on 1 December 2026. The months before it, in brief:

  1. Edition 1 · September 2026

    The AI answering service market in September 2026: what the data says

    Every number I track for the AI answering service sites I follow, read as one month. Search visits down 7.8% on a year ago and down 43.4% on the month before, with the Google positions, the demand and who moved.

    Visits
    587K
    Year on year
    -8%
    Name searches
    12.1K

    Published 15 October 2026 · visits -43.4% on the month before