Is the AI recruiting tools market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▲ Growing
- Visits, year on year, without ChatGPT
- +54%
- Visits, last six months
- +127%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- +6.2%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 81 AI recruiting tools 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 962 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, ChatGPT; without it, visits are up 54% on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 320% in a year while another lost 95% 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 recruiting tools market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 81 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google962Mvisits+290% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US134Msearches+6% vs October 2025
- Top five sites99.7%of visitsfastest grower: ChatGPT
- Expected in November999Mvisitslikely 919M to 1079M
- The AI recruiting tools market is growing as of October 2026.
- The 81 AI recruiting tools sites RankDude tracks got 961,529,532 visits from Google search in October 2026, 290% more visits than in October 2025, or 54% more without ChatGPT.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 133,932,440 times in September 2026, 6% more searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI recruiting tools sites get 99.7% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI recruiting tools site over the year: ChatGPT, +320% (219M to 919M visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: 100hires, -95% (15.3K to 741 visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 999M visits, likely between 919M and 1079M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI recruiting tools sites than a year ago?
Up 290% on a year ago; up 4% on September 2026
Yes. The 81 tracked AI recruiting tools sites got 961,529,532 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 290% more visits than in October 2025, or 54% more without ChatGPT, and 4% more visits than in September 2026.
October 2026 is the highest month of the last two years. In the US, visits were 77,457,559, up 813% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI recruiting tools sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
962M
+290.0% on a year ago
United States, this month
77M
+813.4% on a year ago
Two-year high
962M
October 2026
US share of visits
8.1%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
More visits than a year ago means new people are still finding AI recruiting tools sites through Google. Most of that growth is one site, ChatGPT; without it, visits are up 54% on a year ago.
2.Are people searching for AI recruiting tools sites by name?
Up 6% on October 2025; 134M name searches a month in the US
Yes, more than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI recruiting tools sites 133,932,440 times in September 2026, 6% 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. The term “ai recruiting tools” itself gets about 720 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI recruiting tools sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI recruiting tools sites by name, searches a month
Miles explains
Name searches are up 6%. 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 recruiting tools sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 99.7% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 99.9%
The five most-visited AI recruiting tools sites get 99.7% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: ChatGPT, from 218,778,485 to 918,686,520 visits (+320%). Steepest fall: 100hires, from 15,304 to 741 visits (-95%).
Growing fastest, year on year
Falling fastest, year on year
100hires741 visits-95%
Eightfold AI Interviewer68.5K visits-94%
Findem1.3K visits-86%
Rytr13.1K visits-85%
HireQuotient98.9K visits-78%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.