AI legal research tool statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 10 AI legal research tool sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google1.9Mvisits-34% vs a year ago
• Google searches1.3Ksearchesfor "ai legal research"
• Most visited site1.5MvisitsCoCounsel, 81% of all
• Expected in November1.9Mvisits-0.2% vs last month

• 1,911,357 Google visits went to the 10 AI legal research tool sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 34% fewer than a year earlier (39% fewer without CoCounsel).
• Shrinking: the AI legal research tool market is shrinking.
• 1,300 searches a month for “ai legal research” worldwide, 45% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 81% of all visits go to CoCounsel, the most-visited AI legal research tool; the five most-visited take 99.4%.
• 32.9% of visits come from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom, India and Canada.
• 1,907,655 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 1.7M and 2.1M.

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

Shrinking.

Over two years, visits went from 2.0M in November 2024 to a high of 3.8M in December 2024, fell to 1.8M in August 2026, and recovered to 1.9M in October 2026. Much of the year’s change is one site, CoCounsel, which is why I also look at the market without it.

Visits, year on year

-39%

Visits, last six months

-34%

Name searches, US

+3%

Busiest month (2 years)

December 2024, 3.8M visits

Miles explains

I only call a market growing when visits and name searches agree. Here visits are down and name searches are level, so they don’t agree yet.

Open the AI legal research tool market demand page

“ai legal research” is searched about 1,300 times a month worldwide, 45% of it in the US.

Google Trends barely registered “ai legal research” until June 2025; interest then climbed to its peak in June 2026. Americans make 45% of the searches but only 32.9% of the visits, because the big sites also draw heavily from United Kingdom, India and Canada.

Searches a month, US

590

Google Trends now

10/100 -82%

Five-year peak

95/100 in June 2026

Miles explains

Google Trends shows direction, not volume. Interest is lower than a year ago, and I only trust that when the visits move the same way.

Open the AI legal research tool search trends page

Fewer visits than a year ago, name searches holding steady, and the next six months look flat.

The losers, led by Harvey, lost most of their search visits (-55%).

Visits vs September 2026

+1%

Biggest gain this month

Bloomberg Law +15%

Biggest loss this month

Lexis+ AI Protégé -9%

Open the AI legal research tool monthly analysis page

I expect November 2026 to be about the same as October 2026, and the next six months to look flat.

The forecast carries the level of recent months forward, not the trend line, because that version missed least when tested on past months. November is usually a quieter month than average for searches, but the calendar did not improve the forecast, so it is left out.

Expected in November 2026

1,907,655 visits

Likely range

1.7M to 2.1M

Expected in May 2027

1.9M -0.2%

Past forecasts in range

5 of 6 months

Miles explains

Read the range, not the single number: tested on the last 6 months, my method landed inside its range 5 times.

Open the AI legal research tool monthly forecast page

The most visited is CoCounsel, with 1.5 million visits a month, 81% of all visits.

CoCounsel and Bloomberg Law together hold 90% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 5 sites share 0.6%.

Top five sites

99.4% of all visits

Visits from the US

32.9%

Largest markets outside the US

United Kingdom, India and Canada

Sites tracked

10

Miles explains

CoCounsel alone has 81% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI legal research tool 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 legal research”, 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 Legal Research Tool Statistics, October 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-legal-research