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

AI assistants market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growing

Visits, year on year, without ChatGPT
+39%
Visits vs September 2026
+3.3%
Name searches vs October 2025
+3.9%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 139 AI assistants sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 1.1 billion visits, 218% more than a year ago and 3% more than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 877% in a year), where the visitors live and what comes next.

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

AI assistants 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 1,091,789,008 visits from Google in October 2026, 218% more than a year ago and 3% more than in September 2026. 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%.
  • “ai assistants” gets about 301,000 US searches a month. People searched the site names 137,812,120 times in the US in September 2026, 4% more often than in October 2025.
  • No tracked site ranks on Google for “ai assistants”. ChatGPT is the most-visited site.
  • 8.1% of visits came from the US (5.3% a year ago), then India, Germany and Canada. The five most-visited sites took 95.7% of all visits.

1How many visits

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%.

Visits, October 2026
1,091,789,008 (+217.6% on a year ago, +3.3% on September 2026)
US visits
88,894,691 (+387.1% on a year ago)
24-month peak
this month, 1,091,789,008

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.

2How 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, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai assistants"
301,000 a month in the US, 1,000,000 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
137,812,120 in the US (+3.9% since October 2025), 1,492,052,060 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai assistants", United States

0125K250K375K500KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2674.0K
Low 74.0KHigh 450KAverage 271K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

050M100M150M200MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26138M
Low 113MHigh 140MAverage 133M
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Most searched by name, US

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 up 4%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows more people coming back on purpose.

3Who is on Google's first page

No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai assistants”. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

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

Site

  • ChatGPT
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    112
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 37
    Search visits
    918,686,520
  • Brave Search
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    271
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 151
    Search visits
    7,375,610
  • Zendesk AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    341
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 31
    Search visits
    6,417,579
  • Calendly
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    413
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 30
    Search visits
    546,167
  • Claude
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    417
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 21
    Search visits
    28,705,332
  • DuckDuckGo AI Chat
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    423
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 62
    Search visits
    58,192,976
  • Perplexity
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    728
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 43
    Search visits
    12,248,263
  • DeepSeek
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,054
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 219
    Search visits
    11,770,421
  • Intercom Fin
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,215
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 587
    Search visits
    67,291
  • tawk.to
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,793
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 1
    Search visits
    279,140
  • LiveChat
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    4,609
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 198
    Search visits
    2,020,656
  • Freshdesk Freddy AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    4,778
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 71
    Search visits
    174,699
  • Granola
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    5,463
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 1,746
    Search visits
    37,457
  • Meta AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    6,123
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 4,619
    Search visits
    4,014,574
  • Le Chat by Mistral
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    6,467
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 988
    Search visits
    490,047

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 15 of 139 sites shown.

Miles explains

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

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Humantic AI (+80%); biggest loss: Botpress (-49%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

  • Humantic AI
    Sep 26
    8,839
    Oct 26
    15,868
    Change
    +79.5%
  • Rasa
    Sep 26
    12,573
    Oct 26
    21,014
    Change
    +67.1%
  • Sai by Simular
    Sep 26
    199,148
    Oct 26
    281,577
    Change
    +41.4%
  • Cal.com
    Sep 26
    193,069
    Oct 26
    269,299
    Change
    +39.5%
  • Chatimize
    Sep 26
    16,979
    Oct 26
    23,662
    Change
    +39.4%
  • Lifestack
    Sep 26
    19,046
    Oct 26
    26,074
    Change
    +36.9%

Down this month

  • Botpress
    Sep 26
    406,498
    Oct 26
    207,003
    Change
    -49.1%
  • Convo
    Sep 26
    5,241
    Oct 26
    3,647
    Change
    -30.4%
  • Clari
    Sep 26
    135,918
    Oct 26
    95,765
    Change
    -29.5%
  • Duck.ai
    Sep 26
    1,484,545
    Oct 26
    1,091,514
    Change
    -26.5%
  • SaneBox
    Sep 26
    5,731
    Oct 26
    4,240
    Change
    -26.0%
  • Tars
    Sep 26
    18,206
    Oct 26
    13,773
    Change
    -24.3%

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

Searched less

  • Gensmo
    Oct 25
    1,000
    Sep 26
    140
    Change
    -86.0%
  • Manifest AI
    Oct 25
    2,400
    Sep 26
    590
    Change
    -75.4%
  • Voiceflow
    Oct 25
    6,600
    Sep 26
    1,900
    Change
    -71.2%
  • AI Chatting
    Oct 25
    1,500,000
    Sep 26
    450,000
    Change
    -70.0%
  • Landbot
    Oct 25
    1,300
    Sep 26
    390
    Change
    -70.0%
  • Howie
    Oct 25
    1,000
    Sep 26
    320
    Change
    -68.0%

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 8 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
8.1% (5.3% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Germany and Canada
US share of "ai assistants" searches
30%

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

6Links and ratings

Other websites link to these sites more than a year ago (+7729%).

The tracked sites had 1,613,861 referring domains between them in October 2026 (47 of the 139 sites measured), +7729.0% year on year. The average Domain Rating is 65. Calendly has the strongest link profile at DR 95.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.