AI interviewer statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 16 AI interviewer sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google166Kvisits-86% vs a year ago
• Google searches18.1Ksearchesfor "ai interviewer"
• Most visited site68.5KvisitsEightfold AI Interviewer, 41% of all
• Expected in November149Kvisits-10% vs last month

• 165,850 Google visits went to the 16 AI interviewer sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 86% fewer than a year earlier (12% fewer without Eightfold AI Interviewer).
• Shrinking: the AI interviewer market is shrinking.
• 18,100 searches a month for “ai interviewer” worldwide, 24% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 41% of all visits go to Eightfold AI Interviewer, the most-visited AI interviewer; the five most-visited take 83.1%.
• 28.6% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Canada and the United Kingdom.
• 148,879 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 115K and 183K.

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

Shrinking.

Over two years, visits went from 526K in November 2024 to a high of 1.3M in January 2025, and stand at 166K in October 2026. Much of the year’s change is one site, Eightfold AI Interviewer, which is why I also look at the market without it.

Visits, year on year

-12%

Visits, last six months

-83%

Name searches, US

-3%

Busiest month (2 years)

January 2025, 1.3M visits

Miles explains

I only call a market growing when visits and name searches agree. Here visits are down and name searches are down, so they agree.

Open the AI interviewer market demand page

“ai interviewer” is searched about 18,100 times a month worldwide, 24% of it in the US.

Google Trends barely registered “ai interviewer” until August 2024; interest then climbed to its peak in May 2026.

Searches a month, US

4,400

Google Trends now

57/100 +12%

Five-year peak

91/100 in May 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 interviewer search trends page

Fewer visits than a year ago, fewer people searching by name, and the next six months look like a slide.

The losers, led by Eightfold AI Interviewer, lost most of their search visits (-94%).

Visits vs September 2026

-3%

Biggest gain this month

BrightHire +35%

Biggest loss this month

Alex -21%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like Metaview’s +85% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

Open the AI interviewer monthly analysis page

I expect November 2026 to be 10% fewer than October 2026, and the next six months to look down.

The forecast carries the level of recent months forward, not the trend line, because that version missed least when tested on past months.

Expected in November 2026

148,879 visits

Likely range

115K to 183K

Expected in May 2027

124K -25%

Past forecasts in range

4 of 6 months

Miles explains

Read the range, not the single number: tested on the last 6 months, my method landed inside its range 4 times.

Open the AI interviewer monthly forecast page

The most visited is Eightfold AI Interviewer, with 68,486 visits a month, 41% of all visits.

Eightfold AI Interviewer and HireVue together hold 58% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 11 sites share 16.9%.

Top five sites

83.1% of all visits

Visits from the US

28.6%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Canada and United Kingdom

Sites tracked

16

Miles explains

Eightfold AI Interviewer alone has 41% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI interviewer 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 interviewer”, 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 Interviewer Statistics, October 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-interviewer