AI companions search trends
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
Search interest▼ Fallingand 83% below its May 2026 peak
- Google Trends, year on year
- -55%
- US searches vs October 2025
- -18%
- From the five-year peak
- -83%
This page follows one Google search, “ai companions”, over five years. Interest is 55% lower than a year ago, 83% below its peak in May 2026.
Below: the five-year chart, searches month by month, country by country and the searches people make around it.
Google Trends via DataForSEO (pulled 2 November 2026); search volume and visits via DataForSEO · not a ranking
AI companions search trends: the key numbers for October 2026
The numbers that sum up searches for “ai companions”. Tap one for the detail below.
Interest in “ai companions” is down 55% on a year ago: 15 out of 100 on Google Trends in October 2026, against 33 a year earlier. The five-year peak was 86, in May 2026.
People search for it about 40,500 times a month worldwide, 14,800 of them in the US (37%). In September 2026, US searches were 14,800, 18% fewer than in October 2025.
17% of visits to the tracked AI companions sites come from the US, down from 18.1% a year ago. India, Canada and Brazil come next.
Five years of interest, worldwide and in the US
WorldGoogle Trends interest, worldwide (0–100)
Source: Google Trends, 100 = peak week.
USGoogle Trends interest, United States (0–100)
United States only, same scale.
Miles explains
Here’s how I read these two lines. They don’t show how many people search, only when interest rose and fell. Worldwide, it peaked in May 2026 and sits at 15 now, lower than a year ago. In the US it’s lower than a year ago, and the Google Ads numbers below tell the same story. When you see a sharp spike, think news story, not new customers. The baseline between the spikes is the demand I actually care about.
What the term is worth, month by month
USSearches a month for "ai companions", United States
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.
WorldSearches a month for "ai companions", worldwide
Worldwide, same source.
Miles explains
This is the number I’d plan with: September 2026 had 14,800 US searches, 18% fewer than in October 2025. Google Ads rounds these figures into steps, so a small move from one month to the next usually means nothing.
The US against 9 other countries
Searches a month for “ai companions” in each country with a Google Ads figure, twelve-month average; countries with none are left out. The United States is 36.5% of the worldwide figure; the next 3 countries together are 15.8%.
- United States14,800
- India2,400
- United Kingdom2,400
- Canada1,600
- Australia1,300
- Germany1,300
- Philippines720
- France590
- Brazil480
- Netherlands480
Miles explains
The top five countries are United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Worldwide, people search for it about 2.7 times as often as in the US alone, so roughly 63.5% of the searches happen outside the US.
The searches around the term
| Search | US / month | Worldwide / month | US share |
|---|
Search
Source: Google Ads, 12-month averages. A dash means no volume reported.
Where the visitors to the tracked sites come from
USShare of visits that come from the US (%)
US share of worldwide search visits to all tracked sites, month by month, DataForSEO estimates.
WorldVisits a month from outside the US
Visits from outside the US a month, all tracked sites.
- India52.6%5,858,747
- Canada13.7%1,530,402
- Brazil10.8%1,197,765
- United Kingdom9.1%1,014,568
- Germany6.2%684,839
- France4%448,715
- Australia3.6%397,089
Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.