Is the AI book writer market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▲ Growing
- Visits, year on year, without ChatGPT
- +199%
- Visits, last six months
- +133%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- +6.3%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 13 AI book writer 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 949 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, ChatGPT; without it, visits are up 199% on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 445% in a year while another lost 70% 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 book writer market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 13 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google949Mvisits+315% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US133Msearches+6% vs October 2025
- Top five sites100%of visitsfastest grower: Novelcrafter
- Expected in November987Mvisitslikely 904M to 1070M
- The AI book writer market is growing as of October 2026.
- The 13 AI book writer sites RankDude tracks got 949,419,295 visits from Google search in October 2026, 315% more visits than in October 2025, or 199% more without ChatGPT.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 133,275,690 times in September 2026, 6% more searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI book writer sites get 100% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI book writer site over the year: Novelcrafter, +445% (9.6K to 52.3K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Squibler, -70% (158K to 46.7K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 987M visits, likely between 904M and 1070M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI book writer sites than a year ago?
Up 315% on a year ago; up 4% on September 2026
Yes. The 13 tracked AI book writer sites got 949,419,295 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 315% more visits than in October 2025, or 199% more without ChatGPT, and 4% more visits than in September 2026.
October 2026 is the highest month of the last two years. In the US, visits were 76,636,198, up 1156% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI book writer sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
949M
+314.5% on a year ago
United States, this month
77M
+1156.3% on a year ago
Two-year high
949M
October 2026
US share of visits
8.1%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
More visits than a year ago means new people are still finding AI book writer sites through Google. Most of that growth is one site, ChatGPT; without it, visits are up 199% on a year ago.
2.Are people searching for AI book writer sites by name?
Up 6% on October 2025; 133M name searches a month in the US
Yes, more than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI book writer sites 133,275,690 times in September 2026, 6% more searches than 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 book writer” itself gets about 3,600 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI book writer sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI book writer sites by name, searches a month
ChatGPT124M a month
Claude9.1M a month
NovelAI90.5K a month
Sudowrite18.1K a month
ProWritingAid14.8K a month
Novelcrafter6.6K a month
Miles explains
Name searches are up 6%. This number does not change when Google reshuffles its results, so it is the most reliable sign of growth on this page.
3.Which AI book writer sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 100% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 100%
The five most-visited AI book writer sites get 100% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Novelcrafter, from 9,601 to 52,321 visits (+445%). Steepest fall: Squibler, from 157,578 to 46,714 visits (-70%).
Growing fastest, year on year
- Novelcrafter52.3K visits+445%
- ChatGPT919M visits+320%
- Claude29M visits+319%
Type35.0K visits+93%
Falling fastest, year on year
Squibler46.7K visits-70%- Sudowrite50.7K visits-64%
- ProWritingAid1.7M visits-42%
- NovelAI84.5K visits-24%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.