Is the AI background remover market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▼ Shrinking
- Visits, year on year, without Adobe Express
- -7.5%
- Visits, last six months
- -20%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- -0.6%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 21 AI background remover 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 564 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, Adobe Express; without it, visits are down 8% on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 316% in a year while another lost 79% 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 background remover market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 21 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google564Mvisits-12% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US33Msearches-1% vs October 2025
- Top five sites95.5%of visitsfastest grower: Photiu.ai
- Expected in November562Mvisitslikely 517M to 607M
- The AI background remover market is shrinking as of October 2026.
- The 21 AI background remover sites RankDude tracks got 563,558,535 visits from Google search in October 2026, 12% fewer visits than in October 2025, or 8% fewer without Adobe Express.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 33,390,920 times in September 2026, about the same as in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI background remover sites get 95.5% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI background remover site over the year: Photiu.ai, +316% (158K to 656K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Pixian.AI, -79% (60.5K to 12.5K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 562M visits, likely between 517M and 607M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI background remover sites than a year ago?
Down 12% on a year ago; down 5% on September 2026
No. The 21 tracked AI background remover sites got 563,558,535 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 12% fewer visits than in October 2025, or 8% fewer without Adobe Express, and 5% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was June 2026, with 717,806,808 visits; October 2026 is 22% below it. In the US, visits were 60,817,611, down 9% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI background remover sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
564M
-11.5% on a year ago
United States, this month
61M
-9.4% on a year ago
Two-year high
718M
June 2026
US share of visits
10.8%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago and lower than in September 2026, so the fall is still going. Google Trends interest in the term fell (-47%), but name searches did not, so some interest has cooled.
2.Are people searching for AI background remover sites by name?
About level with October 2025 (-1%); 33M name searches a month in the US
About as many as before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI background remover sites 33,390,920 times in September 2026, about the same as 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 background remover” itself gets about 14,800 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI background remover sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI background remover sites by name, searches a month
Miles explains
Name searches are level, so the regular users are still there.
3.Which AI background remover sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 95.5% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 98.8%
The five most-visited AI background remover sites get 95.5% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Photiu.ai, from 157,747 to 656,160 visits (+316%). Steepest fall: Pixian.AI, from 60,500 to 12,468 visits (-79%).
Growing fastest, year on year
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.