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Updated 11/02/2026 · next update 12/01/2026

AI Assistants Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growing

Visits, year on year, without ChatGPT
+39%
Visits, last six months
+106%
Name searches vs October 2025
+3.9%

Every key number on the AI assistants market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 139 sites I measure got about 1.1 billion visits from Google, 218% more than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 95.7% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for November 2026.

Published 2 November 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

AI assistants industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 139 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    1,091,789,008
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +217.6% year on year, +3.3% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    88,894,691
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +387.1% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    8.1%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    137,812,120
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +3.9% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    1,492,052,060
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +24.3% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai assistants”, US
    Value
    301,000
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai assistants”, worldwide
    Value
    1,000,000
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    1,613,861
    Period and basis
    October 2026 (47 of 139 sites measured); +7729.0% year on year
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    95.7%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    98.6%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai assistants”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai assistants”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out Instinct, Motion, Poke, Vellum, Dialog, Convo, Gong, Granola, Superhuman, Clara, Doodle, Morgen, SchedulerAI, Allo, Nucleus, Rosie, Simple Phones, Upfirst, ChatGOT, Heyy, Pi, Rasa, Tars and Consensus: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+218%), and October 2026 was a better month than September 2026 (+3%). ChatGPT, which takes 84.1% of all the visits, accounts for most of the rise (94% of it). Without it, visits would be up 38.5% on a year ago instead of up 217.6%.

WorldVisits a month to AI assistants sites, worldwide

0500M1000M1500M2000MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 261092M
Low 124MHigh 1092MAverage 423M
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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 218% above a year ago, and this is the highest month in two years. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

3How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 4% more often than in October 2025 (+4%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

050M100M150M200MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26138M
Low 113MHigh 140MAverage 133M
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are up 4%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows more people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 8 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 7 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

02.557.510Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 268.1
Low 3.7High 8.8Average 6
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    175,692,105
    Share of the measured countries
    79.6%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    17,426,653
    Share of the measured countries
    7.9%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    14,131,958
    Share of the measured countries
    6.4%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    4,223,563
    Share of the measured countries
    1.9%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    4,001,456
    Share of the measured countries
    1.8%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    2,900,261
    Share of the measured countries
    1.3%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    2,230,646
    Share of the measured countries
    1%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 8 in every 100 visits. India alone is 79.6% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

ChatGPT gets the most visits, ChatGPT is the name people search for most, and no tracked site ranks on Google for “ai assistants”. The five most-visited sites take 95.7% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

By US brand-name searches

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 95.7% of all visits. When one of them gains or loses a big ranking, the whole market total moves with it.

6Who grew and who shrank

The fastest grower in a year was Fyxer (+877%); the steepest fall was at Lavender (-98%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • Fyxer
    A year ago
    5,661
    Now
    55,308
    Change
    +877%
  • Felo AI
    A year ago
    88,910
    Now
    728,737
    Change
    +720%
  • Phia
    A year ago
    14,840
    Now
    79,299
    Change
    +434%
  • ChatGPT
    A year ago
    218,778,485
    Now
    918,686,520
    Change
    +320%
  • Claude
    A year ago
    6,849,250
    Now
    28,705,332
    Change
    +319%
  • SavvyCal
    A year ago
    496,942
    Now
    1,832,569
    Change
    +269%
  • Meta AI
    A year ago
    1,511,534
    Now
    4,014,574
    Change
    +166%
  • Chatimize
    A year ago
    10,906
    Now
    23,662
    Change
    +117%

Declining

  • Lavender
    A year ago
    46,452
    Now
    1,003
    Change
    -98%
  • Kagi
    A year ago
    1,114,927
    Now
    38,731
    Change
    -97%
  • Trevor AI
    A year ago
    6,477
    Now
    342
    Change
    -95%
  • Shortwave
    A year ago
    14,832
    Now
    865
    Change
    -94%
  • Cora
    A year ago
    12,126
    Now
    804
    Change
    -93%
  • ProProfs Chat
    A year ago
    57,534
    Now
    4,573
    Change
    -92%
  • AI Chatting
    A year ago
    3,728,688
    Now
    385,582
    Change
    -90%
  • KOMO
    A year ago
    39,081
    Now
    5,192
    Change
    -87%

Worldwide search visits, October 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

To cite this report: RankDude, “AI Assistants Industry Report, October 2026”, published 2 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-assistants/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.