AI image detector statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 15 AI image detector sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google38Mvisits+74% vs a year ago
• Google searches201Ksearchesfor "ai image detector"
• Most visited site28MvisitsDeepAI, 72% of all
• Expected in November39Mvisits+1% vs last month

• 38,206,925 Google visits went to the 15 AI image detector sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 74% more than a year earlier (20% more without DeepAI).
• Growing: the AI image detector market is growing, but name searches are down 35% since October 2025.
• 201,000 searches a month for “ai image detector” worldwide, 37% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 72% of all visits go to DeepAI, the most-visited AI image detector; the five most-visited take 99.7%.
• 12.7% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Canada and the United Kingdom.
• 38,582,073 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 35M and 42M.

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

Growing, but name searches are down 35% since October 2025.

Over two years, visits went from 8.1M in November 2024 to a high of 40M in September 2026, and stand at 38M 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

+20%

Visits, last six months

+32%

Name searches, US

-35%

Busiest month (2 years)

September 2026, 40M visits

Miles explains

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

Open the AI image detector market demand page

“ai image detector” is searched about 201,000 times a month worldwide, 37% of it in the US.

Google Trends barely registered “ai image detector” until March 2024; interest then climbed to its peak in October 2026. Americans make 37% of the searches but only 12.7% of the visits, because the big sites also draw heavily from India, Canada and United Kingdom.

Searches a month, US

74,000

Google Trends now

94/100 +119%

Five-year peak

94/100 in October 2026

Miles explains

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

Open the AI image detector search trends page

More visits than a year ago, but fewer people searching by name, and the next six months look flat.

The fastest growers over the year, DeepAI, WasItAI and AI or Not, grew fastest, mostly from a smaller base. The losers, led by Sensity AI, lost most of their search visits (-92%).

Visits vs September 2026

-5%

Biggest gain this month

Image Detector +56%

Biggest loss this month

ZeroGPT -25%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like DeepAI’s +112% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

Open the AI image detector monthly analysis page

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

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 busier month than average for searches, but the calendar did not improve the forecast, so it is left out.

Expected in November 2026

38,582,073 visits

Likely range

35M to 42M

Expected in May 2027

39M +1%

Past forecasts in range

5 of 6 months

Miles explains

Read the range, not the single number: tested on the last 6 months, my method landed inside its range 5 times.

Open the AI image detector monthly forecast page

The most visited is DeepAI, with 28 million visits a month, 72% of all visits.

DeepAI and ZeroGPT together hold 99% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 10 sites share 0.3%.

Top five sites

99.7% of all visits

Visits from the US

12.7%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Canada and United Kingdom

Sites tracked

15

Miles explains

DeepAI alone has 72% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI image detector 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 image detector”, 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 Image Detector Statistics, October 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-image-detector