Is the AI forecasting tool market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▼ Shrinking
- Visits, year on year
- -18%
- Visits, last six months
- -24%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- -19%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 12 AI forecasting 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 205,082 visits. Clari alone takes 46.7% of the visits, so the totals mostly follow it. Without it, visits would be down 39.2% on a year ago instead of down 17.8%. Clari lost more visits in October 2026 (40,153) than the whole market did (36,464); without it, visits to the other sites rose 3.5% on September 2026.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 37% in a year while another lost 84% 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 forecasting tool market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 12 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google205Kvisits-18% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US11.2Ksearches-19% vs October 2025
- Top five sites97.3%of visitsfastest grower: Clari
- Expected in November212Kvisitslikely 153K to 270K
- The AI forecasting tool market is shrinking as of October 2026.
- The 12 AI forecasting tool sites RankDude tracks got 205,082 visits from Google search in October 2026, 18% fewer visits than in October 2025.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 11,210 times in September 2026, 19% fewer searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI forecasting tool sites get 97.3% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI forecasting tool site over the year: Clari, +37% (69.7K to 95.8K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Pecan AI, -84% (9.9K to 1.6K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 212K visits, likely between 153K and 270K.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI forecasting tool sites than a year ago?
Down 18% on a year ago; down 15% on September 2026
No. The 12 tracked AI forecasting tool sites got 205,082 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 18% fewer visits than in October 2025, and 15% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was June 2026, with 370,194 visits; October 2026 is 45% below it. In the US, visits were 71,370, up 6% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI forecasting tool sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
205K
-17.8% on a year ago
United States, this month
71.4K
+5.9% on a year ago
Two-year high
370K
June 2026
US share of visits
34.8%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago. Most of the drop since September 2026 is one site: Clari went from 135,918 to 95,765 visits. Without it, the other sites grew 4% on the month. Name searches (-19%) and Google Trends interest in the term (-68%) fell too, so people are less interested, not just finding these sites less often.
2.Are people searching for AI forecasting tool sites by name?
Down 19% on October 2025; 11.2K name searches a month in the US
Fewer than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI forecasting tool sites 11,210 times in September 2026, 19% 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 forecasting tool” itself gets about 90 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI forecasting tool sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI forecasting tool sites by name, searches 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 forecasting tool sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 97.3% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 99.9%
The five most-visited AI forecasting tool sites get 97.3% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Clari, from 69,683 to 95,765 visits (+37%). Steepest fall: Pecan AI, from 9,876 to 1,617 visits (-84%).
Growing fastest, year on year
Clari95.8K visits+37%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.