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

AI Chatbot Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growing

Visits, year on year, without ChatGPT
+41%
Visits, last six months
+124%
Name searches vs October 2025
+4.9%

Every key number on the AI chatbot market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 45 sites I measure got about 1 billion visits from Google, 259% more than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 98.9% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for November 2026.

Published 2 November 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

AI chatbot industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 45 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    1,004,435,555
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +259.3% year on year, +3.9% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    81,484,822
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +558.3% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    8.1%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    135,992,790
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +4.9% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    1,476,623,650
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +26.7% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai chatbot”, US
    Value
    –
    Period and basis
    not published this month; see the note under the table
  • Searches a month for “ai chatbot”, worldwide
    Value
    –
    Period and basis
    not published this month; see the note under the table
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    1,293,918
    Period and basis
    October 2026 (35 of 45 sites measured); +6176.9% year on year
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    98.9%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    99.7%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai chatbot”, US
    Value
    1
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai chatbot”, US
    Value
    3
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

Google Ads put US searches for "ai chatbot" more than five times higher in July 2026 than in the months before, while Google Trends interest in the US in July 2026 was 57 out of 100, against 81 in June 2026, so the term's search volume is held back on these pages until a later pull confirms it.

Brand-name searches leave out ChatGOT, Heyy, Pi, Rasa and Tars: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+259%), and October 2026 was a better month than September 2026 (+4%). ChatGPT, which takes 91.5% of all the visits, accounts for most of the rise (97% of it). Without it, visits would be up 41.0% on a year ago instead of up 259.3%.

WorldVisits a month to AI chatbot sites, worldwide

0500M1000M1500M2000MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 261004M
Low 68MHigh 1004MAverage 352M
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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 259% 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.

3How 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: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

050M100M150M200MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26136M
Low 111MHigh 137MAverage 130M
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

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.

4Where the visitors live

About 8 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 7 countries one by one; the largest is India.

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 3High 8.9Average 5
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    170,931,205
    Share of the measured countries
    80.9%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    16,453,597
    Share of the measured countries
    7.8%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    12,943,617
    Share of the measured countries
    6.1%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    3,711,708
    Share of the measured countries
    1.8%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    3,089,125
    Share of the measured countries
    1.5%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    2,228,065
    Share of the measured countries
    1.1%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    1,813,407
    Share of the measured countries
    0.9%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 8 in every 100 visits. India alone is 80.9% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

ChatGPT gets the most visits, ChatGPT is the name people search for most, and ChatGPT is the highest-placed tracked site on Google for “ai chatbot”, at position 6. The five most-visited sites take 98.9% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

By US brand-name searches

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 98.9% of all visits. When one of them gains or loses a big ranking, the whole market total moves with it.

6Who grew and who shrank

The fastest grower in a year was ChatGPT (+320%); the steepest fall was at ProProfs Chat (-92%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • ChatGPT
    A year ago
    218,778,485
    Now
    918,686,520
    Change
    +320%
  • Claude
    A year ago
    6,849,250
    Now
    28,705,332
    Change
    +319%
  • Meta AI
    A year ago
    1,511,534
    Now
    4,014,574
    Change
    +166%
  • Chatimize
    A year ago
    10,906
    Now
    23,662
    Change
    +117%
  • DeepAI
    A year ago
    13,018,649
    Now
    27,536,114
    Change
    +112%
  • ChatBot Chat App
    A year ago
    44,836
    Now
    65,993
    Change
    +47%
  • ProProfs Chat
    A year ago
    705,868
    Now
    963,874
    Change
    +37%
  • ChatGOT
    A year ago
    73,277
    Now
    95,482
    Change
    +30%

Declining

  • ProProfs Chat
    A year ago
    57,534
    Now
    4,573
    Change
    -92%
  • AI Chatting
    A year ago
    3,728,688
    Now
    385,582
    Change
    -90%
  • Pi by Inflection AI
    A year ago
    27,740
    Now
    3,838
    Change
    -86%
  • Chatfuel
    A year ago
    380,237
    Now
    59,532
    Change
    -84%
  • Olark
    A year ago
    12,085
    Now
    2,188
    Change
    -82%
  • ManyChat
    A year ago
    1,252,478
    Now
    244,025
    Change
    -81%
  • Chai
    A year ago
    327,729
    Now
    65,831
    Change
    -80%
  • Pi
    A year ago
    174,864
    Now
    39,166
    Change
    -78%

Worldwide search visits, October 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

To cite this report: RankDude, “AI Chatbot Industry Report, October 2026”, published 2 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-chatbot/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.