Is the AI image detector market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▲ Growingbut name searches are down 35% since October 2025
- Visits, year on year, without DeepAI
- +20%
- Visits, last six months
- +32%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- -35%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 15 AI image detector 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 38 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, DeepAI; without it, visits are up 20% on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 112% in a year while another lost 92% 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 image detector market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 15 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google38Mvisits+74% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US767Ksearches-35% vs October 2025
- Top five sites99.7%of visitsfastest grower: DeepAI
- Expected in November39Mvisitslikely 35M to 42M
- The AI image detector market is growing as of October 2026, but name searches are down 35% since October 2025.
- The 15 AI image detector sites RankDude tracks got 38,206,925 visits from Google search in October 2026, 74% more visits than in October 2025, or 20% more without DeepAI.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 766,510 times in September 2026, 35% fewer searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI image detector sites get 99.7% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI image detector site over the year: DeepAI, +112% (13M to 28M visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Sensity AI, -92% (20.7K to 1.7K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 39M visits, likely between 35M and 42M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI image detector sites than a year ago?
Up 74% on a year ago; down 5% on September 2026
Yes. The 15 tracked AI image detector sites got 38,206,925 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 74% more visits than in October 2025, or 20% more without DeepAI, and 5% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was September 2026, with 40,278,500 visits; October 2026 is 5% below it. In the US, visits were 4,867,819, down 4% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI image detector sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
38M
+74.3% on a year ago
United States, this month
4.9M
-4.4% on a year ago
Two-year high
40M
September 2026
US share of visits
12.7%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
More visits than a year ago means new people are still finding AI image detector sites through Google. Most of that growth is one site, DeepAI; without it, visits are up 20% on a year ago.
2.Are people searching for AI image detector sites by name?
Down 35% on October 2025; 767K name searches a month in the US
Fewer than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI image detector sites 766,510 times in September 2026, 35% 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 image detector” itself gets about 74,000 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI image detector sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI image detector sites by name, searches a month
ZeroGPT450K a month
DeepAI201K a month
Is It AI?74.0K a month
Winston AI27.1K a month
AI or Not6.6K a month
Sightengine1.9K 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 image detector sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 99.7% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 100%
The five most-visited AI image detector sites get 99.7% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: DeepAI, from 13,018,649 to 27,536,114 visits (+112%). Steepest fall: Sensity AI, from 20,675 to 1,710 visits (-92%).
Growing fastest, year on year
Falling fastest, year on year
Sensity AI1.7K visits-92%
Reality Defender1.9K visits-79%- Sightengine69.2K visits-14%
- Winston AI318K visits-3%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.