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

AI Image Detector Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ 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 key number on the AI image detector market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 15 sites I measure got about 38 million visits from Google, 74% more than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 99.7% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for November 2026.

Published 2 November 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

AI image detector industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 15 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    38,206,925
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +74.3% year on year, -5.1% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    4,867,819
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -4.4% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    12.7%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    766,510
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -35.3% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    2,930,150
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -39.3% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai image detector”, US
    Value
    74,000
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai image detector”, worldwide
    Value
    201,000
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    50,561
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +145.3% year on year
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    99.7%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    100%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai image detector”, US
    Value
    3
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai image detector”, US
    Value
    3
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out Illuminarty: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+74%), and October 2026 was a weaker month than September 2026 (-5%). DeepAI, which takes 72.1% of all the visits, accounts for most of the rise (89% of it). Without it, visits would be up 19.9% on a year ago instead of up 74.3%. ZeroGPT lost more visits in October 2026 (3,302,944) than the whole market did (2,071,575); without it, visits to the other sites rose 4.6% on September 2026.

WorldVisits a month to AI image detector sites, worldwide

013M25M38M50MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2638M
Low 8.1MHigh 40MAverage 25M
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Miles explains

Judge this line on the year, not the last dot: visits are 74% above a year ago, and 5% below the September 2026 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

3How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 35% less often than in October 2025 (-35%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

0500K1.0M1.5M2.0MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26767K
Low 348KHigh 1.2MAverage 744K
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are down 35%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows fewer people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 13 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 7 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

06.2512.518.7525Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2612.7
Low 8.1High 23.2Average 14
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    5,433,376
    Share of the measured countries
    58.2%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    1,269,003
    Share of the measured countries
    13.6%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    903,391
    Share of the measured countries
    9.7%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    687,337
    Share of the measured countries
    7.4%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    501,088
    Share of the measured countries
    5.4%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    344,266
    Share of the measured countries
    3.7%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    193,063
    Share of the measured countries
    2.1%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 13 in every 100 visits. India alone is 58.2% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

DeepAI gets the most visits, ZeroGPT is the name people search for most, and TruthScan is the highest-placed tracked site on Google for “ai image detector”, at position 5. The five most-visited sites take 99.7% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

By US brand-name searches

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 99.7% of all visits. When one of them gains or loses a big ranking, the whole market total moves with it.

6Who grew and who shrank

The fastest grower in a year was DeepAI (+112%); the steepest fall was at Sensity AI (-92%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • DeepAI
    A year ago
    13,018,649
    Now
    27,536,114
    Change
    +112%
  • WasItAI
    A year ago
    43,186
    Now
    63,732
    Change
    +48%
  • AI or Not
    A year ago
    31,148
    Now
    44,337
    Change
    +42%
  • ZeroGPT
    A year ago
    8,374,330
    Now
    10,113,046
    Change
    +21%

Declining

Worldwide search visits, October 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

To cite this report: RankDude, “AI Image Detector Industry Report, October 2026”, published 2 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-image-detector/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.