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

AI automation tools market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growingbut visits without ChatGPT are down 8.2% on a year ago

Visits, year on year, without ChatGPT
-8.2%
Visits vs September 2026
+1.5%
Name searches vs October 2025
+4.6%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 252 AI automation tools sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 1.5 billion visits, 79% more than a year ago and 2% more than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 1725% in a year), where the visitors live and what comes next.

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

AI automation tools 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 1,472,730,258 visits from Google in October 2026, 79% more than a year ago and 2% more than in September 2026. ChatGPT, which takes 62.4% of all the visits, gained more visits on its own than the whole market gained in a year. Without it, visits would be down 8.2% on a year ago instead of up 79.1%.
  • “ai automation tools” gets about 2,400 US searches a month. People searched the site names 166,825,860 times in the US in September 2026, 5% more often than in October 2025.
  • No tracked site ranks on Google for “ai automation tools”. ChatGPT is the most-visited site.
  • 9.5% of visits came from the US (9.7% a year ago), then India, Canada and Germany. The five most-visited sites took 98.3% of all visits.

1How many visits

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+79%), and October 2026 was about the same as September 2026 (+2%). ChatGPT, which takes 62.4% of all the visits, gained more visits on its own than the whole market gained in a year. Without it, visits would be down 8.2% on a year ago instead of up 79.1%.

Visits, October 2026
1,472,730,258 (+79.1% on a year ago, +1.5% on September 2026)
US visits
140,588,222 (+77.0% on a year ago)
24-month peak
this month, 1,472,730,258

WorldVisits a month to AI automation tools sites, worldwide

0500M1000M1500M2000MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 261473M
Low 387MHigh 1473MAverage 874M
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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 79% 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 5% more often than in October 2025 (+5%). That is the loyalty number, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai automation tools"
2,400 a month in the US, 8,100 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
166,825,860 in the US (+4.6% since October 2025), 1,649,106,730 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai automation tools", United States

02.5K5.0K7.5K10.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 262.9K
Low 1.0KHigh 5.4KAverage 2.6K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

050M100M150M200MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26167M
Low 121MHigh 167MAverage 154M
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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 5%, 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 automation tools”. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

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

Site

  • IBM
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    277
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 8
    Search visits
    27,671,146
  • Braze
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    513
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 91
    Search visits
    61,622
  • Klaviyo
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    561
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 38
    Search visits
    186,997
  • Mailchimp
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    778
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 43
    Search visits
    1,539,004
  • MoEngage
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,879
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 51
    Search visits
    33,689
  • Customer.io
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    2,069
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 86
    Search visits
    21,573
  • Constant Contact
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    2,210
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 65
    Search visits
    451,941
  • Zapier
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,005
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 37
    Search visits
    5,722,209
  • Brevo
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,059
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 121
    Search visits
    413,793
  • Iterable
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,299
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 96
    Search visits
    14,830
  • Hootsuite
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,449
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 74
    Search visits
    1,085,585
  • Sprout Social
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,804
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 634
    Search visits
    496,346
  • Buffer
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    4,351
    Move in 40 days
    ▼ 29
    Search visits
    920,408
  • n8n
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    5,849
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 151
    Search visits
    1,185,625
  • Apollo.io
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    7,451
    Move in 40 days
    ▲ 82
    Search visits
    278,254

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 15 of 252 sites shown.

Miles explains

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

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Albato (+387%); biggest loss: Brevo (-86%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

  • Albato
    Sep 26
    25,066
    Oct 26
    122,116
    Change
    +387.2%
  • Beam AI
    Sep 26
    20,784
    Oct 26
    35,839
    Change
    +72.4%
  • Sendible
    Sep 26
    30,382
    Oct 26
    50,885
    Change
    +67.5%
  • Braze
    Sep 26
    37,925
    Oct 26
    61,622
    Change
    +62.5%
  • Opkey
    Sep 26
    15,743
    Oct 26
    24,852
    Change
    +57.9%
  • n8n
    Sep 26
    780,344
    Oct 26
    1,185,625
    Change
    +51.9%

Down this month

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

  • Claude
    Oct 25
    1,220,000
    Sep 26
    9,140,000
    Change
    +649.2%
  • Peec AI
    Oct 25
    1,900
    Sep 26
    4,400
    Change
    +131.6%
  • Sauce Labs
    Oct 25
    6,600
    Sep 26
    14,800
    Change
    +124.2%
  • Profound
    Oct 25
    5,400
    Sep 26
    9,900
    Change
    +83.3%
  • Momentic
    Oct 25
    1,000
    Sep 26
    1,600
    Change
    +60.0%
  • Brevo
    Oct 25
    33,100
    Sep 26
    49,500
    Change
    +49.5%

Searched less

  • Blaze
    Oct 25
    12,100
    Sep 26
    1,600
    Change
    -86.8%
  • Docparser
    Oct 25
    1,300
    Sep 26
    260
    Change
    -80.0%
  • Rankability
    Oct 25
    1,600
    Sep 26
    320
    Change
    -80.0%
  • Artisan
    Oct 25
    6,600
    Sep 26
    1,600
    Change
    -75.8%
  • Hypefury
    Oct 25
    1,900
    Sep 26
    480
    Change
    -74.7%
  • RankIQ
    Oct 25
    1,000
    Sep 26
    260
    Change
    -74.0%

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 10 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
9.5% (9.7% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Canada and Germany
US share of "ai automation tools" searches
30%

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

05101520Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 269.5
Low 7.7High 12.9Average 10
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    285,064,944
    Share of the measured countries
    76%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    22,094,409
    Share of the measured countries
    5.9%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    22,075,062
    Share of the measured countries
    5.9%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    21,513,373
    Share of the measured countries
    5.7%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    10,365,577
    Share of the measured countries
    2.8%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    8,707,514
    Share of the measured countries
    2.3%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    5,041,239
    Share of the measured countries
    1.3%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the single biggest market, but only about 10 in every 100 visits. India alone is 76% of the countries I measure outside it.

6Links and ratings

Other websites link to these sites more than a year ago (+36208%).

The tracked sites had 5,321,718 referring domains between them in October 2026 (222 of the 252 sites measured), +36208.4% year on year. The average Domain Rating is 71. Adobe has the strongest link profile at DR 95.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.