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

Is the AI Excel tool market growing or shrinking?

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The answer▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year
-74%
Visits, last six months
-53%
Name searches vs October 2025
-21%

Every month I add up the Google visits to the 23 AI Excel tool 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 347,409 visits. Ajelix made most of the move in October 2026: it lost 29,075 of the market's 50,035 visits; without it, visits to the other sites fell 6.3% on September 2026.

The total hides very different stories: one site grew 155% in a year while another lost 99% 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 Excel tool market demand: key numbers, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 23 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

  • The AI Excel tool market is shrinking as of October 2026.
  • The 23 AI Excel tool sites RankDude tracks got 347,409 visits from Google search in October 2026, 74% fewer visits than in October 2025.
  • People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 92,200 times in September 2026, 21% fewer searches than in October 2025.
  • The five most-visited AI Excel tool sites get 69.4% of all visits.
  • Fastest-growing AI Excel tool site over the year: Excelmatic, +155% (6.9K to 17.6K visits a month).
  • Steepest fall over the year: Sheet+, -99% (12.3K to 150 visits a month).
  • Forecast for November 2026: about 339K visits, likely between 282K and 396K.

Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.

1.Are more people visiting AI Excel tool sites than a year ago?

Down 74% on a year ago; down 13% on September 2026

No. The 23 tracked AI Excel tool sites got 347,409 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 74% fewer visits than in October 2025, and 13% fewer visits than in September 2026.

The highest month of the last two years was November 2025, with 1,540,984 visits; October 2026 is 78% below it. In the US, visits were 75,732, down 62% on a year ago.

WorldVisits a month to AI Excel tool sites, worldwide, two years

0500K1.0M1.5M2.0MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26347K
Low 347KHigh 1.5MAverage 973K
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Worldwide, this month

347K

-74.0% on a year ago

United States, this month

75.7K

-62.3% on a year ago

Two-year high

1.5M

November 2025

US share of visits

21.8%

of worldwide visits

Miles explains

Visits are lower than a year ago and lower than in September 2026, so the fall is still going. Name searches (-21%) and Google Trends interest in the term (-70%) fell too, so people are less interested, not just finding these sites less often.

2.Are people searching for AI Excel tool sites by name?

Down 21% on October 2025; 92.2K name searches a month in the US

Fewer than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI Excel tool sites 92,200 times in September 2026, 21% fewer 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 excel tool” itself gets about 70 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).

USName searches a month for AI Excel tool sites, US

050.0K100K150K200KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2692.2K
Low 20.3KHigh 117KAverage 78.4K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

USMost searched AI Excel tool sites by name, searches a month

  1. Coefficient90.5K a month
  2. Numerous.ai390 a month
  3. Workik320 a month
  4. Formula Bot260 a month
  5. GPT for Work210 a month
  6. Ajelix110 a month

Miles explains

Name searches are down, so fewer people are coming back on purpose. Better Google rankings will not fix that.

3.Which AI Excel tool sites grew, and which shrank?

The five most-visited sites hold 69.4% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 90.3%

The five most-visited AI Excel tool sites get 69.4% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Excelmatic, from 6,898 to 17,594 visits (+155%). Steepest fall: Sheet+, from 12,312 to 150 visits (-99%).

Growing fastest, year on year

  1. Excelmatic17.6K visits+155%

Falling fastest, year on year

  1. Sheet+150 visits-99%
  2. GPT for Work43.7K visits-94%
  3. GPTExcel8.6K visits-72%
  4. Quadratic13.0K visits-70%
  5. Formula Bot40.7K visits-62%

Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.