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

AI image detector market, 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 vs September 2026
-5.1%
Name searches vs October 2025
-35%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 15 AI image detector sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 38 million visits, 74% more than a year ago but 5% fewer than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 112% in a year), who sits highest on Google, where the visitors live and what comes next.

Data from DataForSEO, Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Ahrefs · not a ranking

AI image detector market: the key numbers for October 2026

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

  • The tracked sites got 38,206,925 visits from Google in October 2026, 74% more than a year ago and 5% fewer than in September 2026. 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.
  • “ai image detector” gets about 74,000 US searches a month. People searched the site names 766,510 times in the US in September 2026, 35% less often than in October 2025.
  • 3 tracked sites are on Google’s first page for “ai image detector”; the highest is TruthScan at position 5. DeepAI is the most-visited site.
  • 12.7% of visits came from the US (23.2% a year ago), then India, Canada and United Kingdom. The five most-visited sites took 99.7% of all visits.

1How many visits

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.

Visits, October 2026
38,206,925 (+74.3% on a year ago, -5.1% on September 2026)
US visits
4,867,819 (-4.4% on a year ago)
24-month peak
40,278,500 in 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.

2How 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, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai image detector"
74,000 a month in the US, 201,000 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
766,510 in the US (-35.3% since October 2025), 2,930,150 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai image detector", United States

050.0K100K150K200KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26110K
Low 40.5KHigh 110KAverage 78.7K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

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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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Most searched by name, US

Ordered by US searches for the brand name in September 2026. A measured order, not a ranking.

Rising next to the term on Google Trends: “truthscan”.

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.

3Who is on Google's first page

3 tracked sites are on Google’s first page for “ai image detector”; the highest-placed is TruthScan, at position 5. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

Ordered by US Google position for “ai image detector”, then Tranco rank. A measured order, not a ranking.

Site

  • TruthScan
    Google US
    5
    Tranco
    613,733
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 21,795
    Search visits
    28,425
  • Sightengine
    Google US
    6
    Tranco
    239,593
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 19,800
    Search visits
    69,185
  • WasItAI
    Google US
    7
    Tranco
    880,591
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 311,856
    Search visits
    63,732
  • ZeroGPT
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    7,167
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 4,486
    Search visits
    10,113,046
  • DeepAI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    14,694
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 5,239
    Search visits
    27,536,114
  • Winston AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    160,775
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 5,903
    Search visits
    318,306
  • Hive Detect
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    346,347
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 799,134
    Search visits
    2,351
  • AI or Not
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    378,675
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 55,412
    Search visits
    44,337
  • Sensity AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    414,789
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 10,520
    Search visits
    1,710
  • Reality Defender
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    557,614
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 71,411
    Search visits
    1,881
  • Illuminarty
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,237,694
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 33,360
    Search visits
    9,565
  • Image Detector
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,667,878
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 982,659
    Search visits
    14,936
  • Is It AI?
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,890,256
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 123,217
    Search visits
    3,256
  • Sightova
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    –
    Move in 41 days
    –
    Search visits
    41
  • PhotoDetector.ai
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    –
    Move in 41 days
    –
    Search visits
    40

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 15 of 15 sites shown.

Miles explains

No tracked site sits high on Google for “ai image detector”, so most visits here come from people who already know the names.

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Image Detector (+56%); biggest loss: ZeroGPT (-25%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

Down this month

  • ZeroGPT
    Sep 26
    13,415,990
    Oct 26
    10,113,046
    Change
    -24.6%
  • Winston AI
    Sep 26
    401,043
    Oct 26
    318,306
    Change
    -20.6%
  • WasItAI
    Sep 26
    77,808
    Oct 26
    63,732
    Change
    -18.1%
  • AI or Not
    Sep 26
    52,913
    Oct 26
    44,337
    Change
    -16.2%

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

Searched less

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 13 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
12.7% (23.2% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Canada and United Kingdom
US share of "ai image detector" searches
37%

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

6Links and ratings

Other websites link to these sites more than a year ago (+145%).

The tracked sites had 50,561 referring domains between them in October 2026, +145.3% year on year. The average Domain Rating is 59. ZeroGPT has the strongest link profile at DR 79.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.