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

AI Outbound Calling Tool Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ 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 key number on the AI outbound calling tool market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 12 sites I measure got about 203,485 visits from Google, 11% more than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 93.5% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for November 2026.

Published 2 November 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

AI outbound calling tool industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 12 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    203,485
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +11.2% year on year, +4.4% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    53,874
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +102.0% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    26.5%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    32,930
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +12.2% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    96,350
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -8.3% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai outbound calling”, US
    Value
    –
    Period and basis
    not published this month; see the note under the table
  • Searches a month for “ai outbound calling”, worldwide
    Value
    –
    Period and basis
    not published this month; see the note under the table
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    7,757
    Period and basis
    October 2026 (7 of 12 sites measured); first reading, no year-on-year figure yet
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    93.5%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    99.9%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai outbound calling”, US
    Value
    2
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai outbound calling”, US
    Value
    2
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

Google Ads put US searches for "ai outbound calling" more than five times higher in July 2026 than in the months before, while Google Trends interest in the US in July 2026 was 0 out of 100, against 45 in June 2026, so the term's search volume is held back on these pages until a later pull confirms it.

Brand-name searches leave out Regal: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+11%), and October 2026 was a better month than September 2026 (+4%). Retell AI, which takes 46.1% of all the visits, gained more visits on its own than the whole market gained in a year. Without it, visits would be down 34.3% on a year ago instead of up 11.2%.

WorldVisits a month to AI outbound calling tool sites, worldwide

062.5K125K188K250KNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26203K
Low 61.0KHigh 226KAverage 156K
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Miles explains

Judge this line on the year, not the last dot: visits are 11% above a year ago, and 10% below the August 2026 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

3How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 12% more often than in October 2025 (+12%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

012.5K25.0K37.5K50.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2632.9K
Low 26.8KHigh 39.6KAverage 31.8K
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are up 12%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows more people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 27 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 7 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

012.52537.550Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2626.5
Low 9.7High 26.6Average 18
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    39,311
    Share of the measured countries
    72.8%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    7,329
    Share of the measured countries
    13.6%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    2,691
    Share of the measured countries
    5%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    1,879
    Share of the measured countries
    3.5%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    1,402
    Share of the measured countries
    2.6%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    955
    Share of the measured countries
    1.8%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    440
    Share of the measured countries
    0.8%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 27 in every 100 visits. India alone is 72.8% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

Retell AI gets the most visits, Retell AI is the name people search for most, and Retell AI is the highest-placed tracked site on Google for “ai outbound calling”, at position 3. The five most-visited sites take 93.5% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

By US brand-name searches

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 93.5% of all visits. When one of them gains or loses a big ranking, the whole market total moves with it.

6Who grew and who shrank

The fastest grower in a year was Retell AI (+483%); the steepest fall was at Regal (-97%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

Declining

  • A year ago
    38,846
    Now
    1,017
    Change
    -97%
  • A year ago
    8,612
    Now
    3,309
    Change
    -62%
  • A year ago
    12,446
    Now
    5,477
    Change
    -56%
  • A year ago
    18,454
    Now
    9,512
    Change
    -49%
  • A year ago
    9,846
    Now
    6,964
    Change
    -29%
  • A year ago
    68,788
    Now
    68,708
    Change
    -0.1%

Worldwide search visits, October 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

To cite this report: RankDude, “AI Outbound Calling Tool Industry Report, October 2026”, published 2 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-outbound-calling/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.