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

AI paraphrasing tool market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year, without Grammarly
-50%
Visits vs September 2026
-8.7%
Name searches vs October 2025
-33%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 8 AI paraphrasing tool sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 26 million visits, 33% fewer than a year ago and 9% fewer than in September 2026.

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 paraphrasing 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 25,798,634 visits from Google in October 2026, 33% fewer than a year ago and 9% fewer than in September 2026. Grammarly, which takes 84.7% of all the visits, accounts for most of the fall (69% of it). Without it, visits would be down 49.8% on a year ago instead of down 32.9%. Grammarly made most of the move in October 2026: it lost 1,803,551 of the market's 2,450,698 visits; without it, visits to the other sites fell 14.1% on September 2026.
  • “ai paraphrasing tool” gets about 1,600 US searches a month. People searched the site names 2,750,670 times in the US in September 2026, 33% less often than in October 2025.
  • No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai paraphrasing tool”; the highest is Paraphrasingtool.ai, at position 17. Grammarly is the most-visited site.
  • 20.7% of visits came from the US (16% a year ago), then India, United Kingdom and Canada. The five most-visited sites took 99.6% of all visits.

1How many visits

In plain words: These sites got fewer visits from Google than a year ago (-33%), and October 2026 was a weaker month than September 2026 (-9%). Grammarly, which takes 84.7% of all the visits, accounts for most of the fall (69% of it). Without it, visits would be down 49.8% on a year ago instead of down 32.9%. Grammarly made most of the move in October 2026: it lost 1,803,551 of the market's 2,450,698 visits; without it, visits to the other sites fell 14.1% on September 2026.

Visits, October 2026
25,798,634 (-32.9% on a year ago, -8.7% on September 2026)
US visits
5,335,254 (-13.1% on a year ago)
24-month peak
42,561,589 in January 2026

WorldVisits a month to AI paraphrasing tool sites, worldwide

013M25M38M50MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2626M
Low 20MHigh 43MAverage 34M
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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 33% below a year ago, and 39% below the January 2026 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 33% less often than in October 2025 (-33%). That is the loyalty number, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai paraphrasing tool"
1,600 a month in the US, 12,100 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
2,750,670 in the US (-33.2% since October 2025), 5,155,020 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai paraphrasing tool", United States

06251.3K1.9K2.5KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 261.0K
Low 880High 2.4KAverage 1.5K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

01.3M2.5M3.8M5.0MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 262.8M
Low 1.2MHigh 4.1MAverage 2.7M
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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 down 33%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows fewer people coming back on purpose.

3Who is on Google's first page

No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai paraphrasing tool”; the highest-placed is Paraphrasingtool.ai, at position 17. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

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

Site

  • Paraphrasingtool.ai
    Google US
    17
    Tranco
    1,297,010
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 122,732
    Search visits
    35,856
  • Grammarly
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    323
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 244
    Search visits
    21,845,704
  • Wordtune
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    52,336
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,746
    Search visits
    100,329
  • Paraphraser.io
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    72,051
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 1,647
    Search visits
    766,814
  • Prepostseo
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    129,721
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 63
    Search visits
    538,908
  • Wordvice AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    200,410
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 1,998
    Search visits
    2,456,452
  • SEO Magnifier
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    912,143
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 48,851
    Search visits
    54,571
  • Rephrase.info
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,494,175
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 160,552
    Search visits
    0

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 8 of 8 sites shown.

Miles explains

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

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Paraphraser.io (+2%); biggest loss: Prepostseo (-20%). 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 less

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 21 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
20.7% (16% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, United Kingdom and Canada
US share of "ai paraphrasing tool" searches
13%

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

06.2512.518.7525Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2620.7
Low 11.5High 20.7Average 17
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    3,999,915
    Share of the measured countries
    65.5%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    803,695
    Share of the measured countries
    13.2%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    691,013
    Share of the measured countries
    11.3%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    380,141
    Share of the measured countries
    6.2%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    92,885
    Share of the measured countries
    1.5%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    79,902
    Share of the measured countries
    1.3%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    59,292
    Share of the measured countries
    1%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the single biggest market, but only about 21 in every 100 visits. India alone is 65.5% of the countries I measure outside it.

6Links and ratings

The tracked sites had 130,036 referring domains between them in October 2026; this is the first reading, so there is no year-on-year figure yet. The average Domain Rating is 69. Grammarly has the strongest link profile at DR 90.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.