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

AI legal research tool market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year, without CoCounsel
-39%
Visits vs September 2026
+0.6%
Name searches vs October 2025
+2.7%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 10 AI legal research tool sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 1.9 million visits, 34% fewer than a year ago.

Below: 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 legal research tool 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 1,911,357 visits from Google in October 2026, 34% fewer than a year ago and about as many as in September 2026. CoCounsel, which takes 80.6% of all the visits, fell in line with the market (-33% on a year ago).
  • “ai legal research” gets about 590 US searches a month. People searched the site names 24,600 times in the US in September 2026, 3% more often than in October 2025.
  • No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai legal research”; the highest is TheLawGPT, at position 12. CoCounsel is the most-visited site.
  • 32.9% of visits came from the US (26.6% a year ago), then United Kingdom, India and Canada. The five most-visited sites took 99.4% of all visits.

1How many visits

In plain words: These sites got fewer visits from Google than a year ago (-34%), and October 2026 was about the same as September 2026 (+1%). CoCounsel, which takes 80.6% of all the visits, fell in line with the market (-33% on a year ago).

Visits, October 2026
1,911,357 (-34.4% on a year ago, +0.6% on September 2026)
US visits
627,907 (-19.1% on a year ago)
24-month peak
3,750,011 in December 2024

WorldVisits a month to AI legal research tool sites, worldwide

01.3M2.5M3.8M5.0MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 261.9M
Low 1.8MHigh 3.8MAverage 2.7M
Hover, tap, or use the arrow keys to inspect a month

Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Miles explains

Judge this line on the year, not the last dot: visits are 34% below a year ago, and 49% below the December 2024 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 3% more often than in October 2025 (+3%). That is the loyalty number, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai legal research"
590 a month in the US, 1,300 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
24,600 in the US (+2.7% since October 2025), 33,980 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai legal research", United States

05001.0K1.5K2.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26480
Low 320High 1.6KAverage 620
Hover, tap, or use the arrow keys to inspect a month

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

012.5K25.0K37.5K50.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2624.6K
Low 17.0KHigh 25.9KAverage 21.5K
Hover, tap, or use the arrow keys to inspect a month

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.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are about level, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows more people coming back on purpose.

3Who is on Google's first page

No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai legal research”; the highest-placed is TheLawGPT, at position 12. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

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

Site

  • TheLawGPT
    Google US
    12
    Tranco
    4,340,214
    Move in 41 days
    –
    Search visits
    1,048
  • CoCounsel
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    2,636
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 34
    Search visits
    1,540,744
  • Bloomberg Law
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    8,208
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 442
    Search visits
    182,245
  • Lexis+ AI Protégé
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    17,800
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 2,498
    Search visits
    106,473
  • Harvey
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    32,716
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 7,506
    Search visits
    63,791
  • midpage.ai
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    105,666
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 73,387
    Search visits
    4,919
  • Cetient
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    191,319
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 42,269
    Search visits
    5,805
  • Descrybe
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    583,639
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 578,548
    Search visits
    211
  • Paxton Legal AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    673,191
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 276,112
    Search visits
    5,390
  • NexLaw
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    –
    Move in 41 days
    –
    Search visits
    731

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 10 of 10 sites shown.

Miles explains

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

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Bloomberg Law (+15%); biggest loss: Lexis+ AI Protégé (-9%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

Down this month

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

Searched less

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 33 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
32.9% (26.6% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
United Kingdom, India and Canada
US share of "ai legal research" searches
45%

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

012.52537.550Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2632.9
Low 25.7High 39Average 32
Hover, tap, or use the arrow keys to inspect a month

US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    323,415
    Share of the measured countries
    46.1%
  • India
    Search visits a month
    172,091
    Share of the measured countries
    24.5%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    136,644
    Share of the measured countries
    19.5%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    28,419
    Share of the measured countries
    4%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    17,866
    Share of the measured countries
    2.5%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    14,704
    Share of the measured countries
    2.1%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    8,777
    Share of the measured countries
    1.3%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the single biggest market, but only about 33 in every 100 visits. United Kingdom alone is 46.1% of the countries I measure outside it.

6Links and ratings

The tracked sites had 176,097 referring domains between them in October 2026 (9 of the 10 sites measured); this is the first reading, so there is no year-on-year figure yet. The average Domain Rating is 60. CoCounsel has the strongest link profile at DR 90.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.