Is the AI outbound calling tool market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▲ Growingbut visits without Retell AI are down 34% on a year ago
- Visits, year on year, without Retell AI
- -34%
- Visits, last six months
- +24%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- +12%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 12 AI outbound calling tool 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 203,485 visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, Retell AI; without it, visits are down 34% on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 483% in a year while another lost 97% 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 outbound calling tool market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 12 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google203Kvisits+11% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US32.9Ksearches+12% vs October 2025
- Top five sites93.5%of visitsfastest grower: Retell AI
- Expected in November205Kvisitslikely 175K to 235K
- The AI outbound calling tool market is growing as of October 2026, but visits without Retell AI are down 34% on a year ago.
- The 12 AI outbound calling tool sites RankDude tracks got 203,485 visits from Google search in October 2026, 11% more visits than in October 2025, or 34% fewer without Retell AI.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 32,930 times in September 2026, 12% more searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI outbound calling tool sites get 93.5% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI outbound calling tool site over the year: Retell AI, +483% (16.1K to 93.8K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Regal, -97% (38.8K to 1.0K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 205K visits, likely between 175K and 235K.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI outbound calling tool sites than a year ago?
Up 11% on a year ago; up 4% on September 2026
Only because of Retell AI. The 12 tracked AI outbound calling tool sites got 203,485 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 11% more visits than in October 2025, or 34% fewer without Retell AI, and 4% more visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was August 2026, with 225,973 visits; October 2026 is 10% below it. In the US, visits were 53,874, up 102% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI outbound calling tool sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
203K
+11.2% on a year ago
United States, this month
53.9K
+102.0% on a year ago
Two-year high
226K
August 2026
US share of visits
26.5%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
More visits than a year ago means new people are still finding AI outbound calling tool sites through Google. Most of that growth is one site, Retell AI; without it, visits are down 34% on a year ago.
2.Are people searching for AI outbound calling tool sites by name?
Up 12% on October 2025; 32.9K name searches a month in the US
Yes, more than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI outbound calling tool sites 32,930 times in September 2026, 12% more 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.
USName searches a month for AI outbound calling tool sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI outbound calling tool sites by name, searches a month
Miles explains
Name searches are up 12%. This number does not change when Google reshuffles its results, so it is the most reliable sign of growth on this page.
3.Which AI outbound calling tool sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 93.5% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 99.9%
The five most-visited AI outbound calling tool sites get 93.5% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Retell AI, from 16,094 to 93,802 visits (+483%). Steepest fall: Regal, from 38,846 to 1,017 visits (-97%).
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.