AI character chat app statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 17 AI character chat app sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google32Mvisits+76% vs a year ago
• Google searches90.5Ksearchesfor "ai character chat"
• Most visited site28MvisitsDeepAI, 85% of all
• Expected in November33Mvisits+1% vs last month

• 32,486,123 Google visits went to the 17 AI character chat app sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 76% more than a year earlier (9% fewer without DeepAI).
• Growing: the AI character chat app market is growing, but visits without DeepAI are down 9% on a year ago.
• 90,500 searches a month for “ai character chat” worldwide, 45% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 85% of all visits go to DeepAI, the most-visited AI character chat app; the five most-visited take 98.9%.
• 12.2% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Canada and Brazil.
• 32,963,590 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 23M and 42M.

Source: DataForSEO, Google Ads and Google Trends, October 2026, compiled by RankDude.

Growing, but visits without DeepAI are down 9% on a year ago.

Over two years, visits went from 6.8M in November 2024 to a high of 32M in October 2026, and stand at 32M in October 2026. Much of the year’s change is one site, DeepAI, which is why I also look at the market without it.

Visits, year on year

-9%

Visits, last six months

+77%

Name searches, US

+5%

Busiest month (2 years)

October 2026, 32M visits

Miles explains

I only call a market growing when visits and name searches agree. Here visits are down and name searches are up, so they don’t agree yet.

Open the AI character chat app market demand page

“ai character chat” is searched about 90,500 times a month worldwide, 45% of it in the US.

Google Trends barely registered “ai character chat” until February 2023; interest then climbed to its peak in May 2023. Americans make 45% of the searches but only 12.2% of the visits, because the big sites also draw heavily from India, Canada and Brazil.

Searches a month, US

40,500

Google Trends now

17/100 0%

Five-year peak

58/100 in May 2023

Miles explains

Google Trends shows direction, not volume. Interest is about the same than a year ago, and I only trust that when the visits move the same way.

Open the AI character chat app search trends page

More visits than a year ago only because of DeepAI, more people searching by name, and the next six months look like growth.

The fastest growers over the year, Candy AI, Bubio.ai and DeepAI, grew fastest, mostly from a smaller base. The losers, led by Dippy, lost most of their search visits (-80%).

Visits vs September 2026

+3%

Biggest gain this month

Tavern AI +13%

Biggest loss this month

Botify AI -45%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like Candy AI’s +3185% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

Open the AI character chat app monthly analysis page

I expect November 2026 to be about the same as October 2026, and the next six months to look up.

The forecast carries the level of recent months forward, not the trend line, because that version missed least when tested on past months. November is usually a quieter month than average for searches, but the calendar did not improve the forecast, so it is left out.

Expected in November 2026

32,963,590 visits

Likely range

23M to 42M

Expected in May 2027

34M +5%

Past forecasts in range

4 of 6 months

Miles explains

Read the range, not the single number: tested on the last 6 months, my method landed inside its range 4 times.

Open the AI character chat app monthly forecast page

The most visited is DeepAI, with 28 million visits a month, 85% of all visits.

DeepAI and SpicyChat together hold 92% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 12 sites share 1.1%.

Top five sites

98.9% of all visits

Visits from the US

12.2%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Canada and Brazil

Sites tracked

17

Miles explains

DeepAI alone has 85% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI character chat app industry report page

Yes. Every number on these pages comes from two CSV files, free to download.

sites.csv has one row per site: its Google US position for “ai character chat”, Tranco rank, Chrome UX tier, visits from Google worldwide and in the US, name searches, Domain Rating and referring domains, with the month each figure covers. market.csv has the monthly totals across the tracked sites: visits worldwide and in the US, name searches and referring domains. Blanks mean the source had no figure, never zero.

Cite as: Miles Foster, “AI Character Chat App Statistics, October 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-character-chat