Is the AI interview assistant market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▲ Growingbut name searches are down 31% since October 2025
- Visits, year on year, without Final Round AI
- +101%
- Visits, last six months
- +16%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- -31%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 10 AI interview assistant 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 246,573 visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, Final Round AI; without it, visits are up 101% on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 150% in a year while another lost 37% 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 interview assistant market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 10 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google247Kvisits-2% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US17.2Ksearches-31% vs October 2025
- Top five sites98.4%of visitsfastest grower: lockedin-ai
- Expected in November245Kvisitslikely 211K to 278K
- The AI interview assistant market is growing as of October 2026, but name searches are down 31% since October 2025.
- The 10 AI interview assistant sites RankDude tracks got 246,573 visits from Google search in October 2026, about the same as in October 2025, or 101% more without Final Round AI.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 17,200 times in September 2026, 31% fewer searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI interview assistant sites get 98.4% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI interview assistant site over the year: lockedin-ai, +150% (17.7K to 44.1K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Sensei AI, -37% (8.1K to 5.1K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 245K visits, likely between 211K and 278K.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI interview assistant sites than a year ago?
About level with a year ago (-2%); up 5% on September 2026
Only because of Final Round AI. The 10 tracked AI interview assistant sites got 246,573 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is about the same as in October 2025, or 101% more without Final Round AI, and 5% more visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was January 2026, with 471,494 visits; October 2026 is 48% below it. In the US, visits were 102,624, up 56% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI interview assistant sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
247K
-1.8% on a year ago
United States, this month
103K
+55.7% on a year ago
Two-year high
471K
January 2026
US share of visits
41.6%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are about level with a year ago. The real changes are between individual sites, shown in section 3.
2.Are people searching for AI interview assistant sites by name?
Down 31% on October 2025; 17.2K name searches a month in the US
Fewer than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI interview assistant sites 17,200 times in September 2026, 31% 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 interview assistant” itself gets about 1,900 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI interview assistant sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI interview assistant sites by name, searches a month
Final Round AI6.6K a month
lockedin-ai5.4K a month
Sensei AI1.9K a month
Verve AI1.9K a month
Interview Copilot880 a month
Live Interview AI260 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 interview assistant sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 98.4% of all visits
The five most-visited AI interview assistant sites get 98.4% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: lockedin-ai, from 17,684 to 44,124 visits (+150%). Steepest fall: Sensei AI, from 8,093 to 5,078 visits (-37%).
Growing fastest, year on year
- lockedin-ai44.1K visits+150%
- Verve AI50.4K visits+138%
Falling fastest, year on year
- Sensei AI5.1K visits-37%
- Final Round AI141K visits-29%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.