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

Is the AI interviewer market growing or shrinking?

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The answer▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year, without Eightfold AI Interviewer
-12%
Visits, last six months
-83%
Name searches vs October 2025
-3.1%

Every month I add up the Google visits to the 16 AI interviewer 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 165,850 visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, Eightfold AI Interviewer; without it, visits are down 12% on a year ago.

The total hides very different stories: one site grew 85% in a year while another lost 94% 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 interviewer market demand: key numbers, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 16 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

  • The AI interviewer market is shrinking as of October 2026.
  • The 16 AI interviewer sites RankDude tracks got 165,850 visits from Google search in October 2026, 86% fewer visits than in October 2025, or 12% fewer without Eightfold AI Interviewer.
  • People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 41,730 times in September 2026, 3% fewer searches than in October 2025.
  • The five most-visited AI interviewer sites get 83.1% of all visits.
  • Fastest-growing AI interviewer site over the year: Metaview, +85% (11.1K to 20.5K visits a month).
  • Steepest fall over the year: Eightfold AI Interviewer, -94% (1.1M to 68.5K visits a month).
  • Forecast for November 2026: about 149K visits, likely between 115K and 183K.

Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.

1.Are more people visiting AI interviewer sites than a year ago?

Down 86% on a year ago; about level with September 2026 (-3%)

No. The 16 tracked AI interviewer sites got 165,850 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 86% fewer visits than in October 2025, or 12% fewer without Eightfold AI Interviewer, and about the same as in September 2026.

The highest month of the last two years was January 2025, with 1,267,494 visits; October 2026 is 87% below it. In the US, visits were 47,378, down 94% on a year ago.

WorldVisits a month to AI interviewer sites, worldwide, two years

0500K1.0M1.5M2.0MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26166K
Low 166KHigh 1.3MAverage 799K
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Worldwide, this month

166K

-86.0% on a year ago

United States, this month

47.4K

-94.1% on a year ago

Two-year high

1.3M

January 2025

US share of visits

28.6%

of worldwide visits

Miles explains

Visits are lower than a year ago. October 2026 was level on September 2026, but the forecast still points down, so the fall may not be over. Name searches fell (-3%), but Google Trends interest in the term rose (+12%). The counted sites are losing ground; that does not mean interest in AI interviewer sites is falling.

2.Are people searching for AI interviewer sites by name?

Down 3% on October 2025; 41.7K name searches a month in the US

Fewer than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI interviewer sites 41,730 times in September 2026, 3% 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 interviewer” itself gets about 4,400 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).

USName searches a month for AI interviewer sites, US

012.5K25.0K37.5K50.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2641.7K
Low 31.6KHigh 46.1KAverage 39.9K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

USMost searched AI interviewer sites by name, searches a month

  1. HireVue18.1K a month
  2. Metaview9.9K a month
  3. Spark Hire4.4K a month
  4. BrightHire3.6K a month
  5. Hireflix1.9K a month
  6. Interviewer.AI1.6K 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 interviewer sites grew, and which shrank?

The five most-visited sites hold 83.1% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 97%

The five most-visited AI interviewer sites get 83.1% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Metaview, from 11,065 to 20,507 visits (+85%). Steepest fall: Eightfold AI Interviewer, from 1,077,359 to 68,486 visits (-94%).

Growing fastest, year on year

  1. Metaview20.5K visits+85%

Falling fastest, year on year

  1. Eightfold AI Interviewer68.5K visits-94%
  2. VidCruiter7.7K visits-70%
  3. Spark Hire5.6K visits-69%
  4. Interviewer.AI3.6K visits-50%
  5. HireVue28.2K visits-24%

Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.