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

AI recruiting tools market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growing

Visits, year on year, without ChatGPT
+54%
Visits vs September 2026
+4.2%
Name searches vs October 2025
+6.2%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 81 AI recruiting tools sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 962 million visits, 290% more than a year ago and 4% more than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 320% in a year), where the visitors live and what comes next.

Data from DataForSEO, Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Ahrefs · not a ranking

AI recruiting tools 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 961,529,532 visits from Google in October 2026, 290% more than a year ago and 4% more than in September 2026. ChatGPT, which takes 95.5% of all the visits, accounts for most of the rise (98% of it). Without it, visits would be up 54.3% on a year ago instead of up 290.0%. ChatGPT made most of the move in October 2026: it gained 33,563,995 of the market's 38,897,344 visits; without it, visits to the other sites rose 14.2% on September 2026.
  • “ai recruiting tools” gets about 720 US searches a month. People searched the site names 133,932,440 times in the US in September 2026, 6% more often than in October 2025.
  • No tracked site ranks on Google for “ai recruiting tools”. ChatGPT is the most-visited site.
  • 8.1% of visits came from the US (3.4% a year ago), then India, Germany and Canada. The five most-visited sites took 99.7% of all visits.

1How many visits

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+290%), and October 2026 was a better month than September 2026 (+4%). ChatGPT, which takes 95.5% of all the visits, accounts for most of the rise (98% of it). Without it, visits would be up 54.3% on a year ago instead of up 290.0%. ChatGPT made most of the move in October 2026: it gained 33,563,995 of the market's 38,897,344 visits; without it, visits to the other sites rose 14.2% on September 2026.

Visits, October 2026
961,529,532 (+290.0% on a year ago, +4.2% on September 2026)
US visits
77,457,559 (+813.4% on a year ago)
24-month peak
this month, 961,529,532

WorldVisits a month to AI recruiting tools sites, worldwide

0250M500M750M1000MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26962M
Low 68MHigh 962MAverage 329M
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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 290% above a year ago, and this is the highest month in two years. 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 6% more often than in October 2025 (+6%). That is the loyalty number, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai recruiting tools"
720 a month in the US, 1,900 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
133,932,440 in the US (+6.2% since October 2025), 1,451,504,960 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai recruiting tools", United States

05001.0K1.5K2.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26590
Low 480High 1.3KAverage 729
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

050M100M150M200MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26134M
Low 108MHigh 134MAverage 126M
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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 up 6%, 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 recruiting tools”. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

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

Site

  • ChatGPT
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    112
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 37
    Search visits
    918,686,520
  • Claude
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    417
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 21
    Search visits
    28,705,332
  • Zoho
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    794
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 34
    Search visits
    10,467,238
  • SmartRecruiters
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    6,153
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 222
    Search visits
    382,408
  • iCIMS
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    6,262
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 481
    Search visits
    595,429
  • Lever
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    7,405
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,798
    Search visits
    150,675
  • Workable
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    10,224
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 179
    Search visits
    546,838
  • Paradox
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    13,583
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,614
    Search visits
    22,230
  • Eightfold AI Interviewer
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    13,699
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 758
    Search visits
    68,486
  • Teamtailor Co-pilot
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    13,939
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,327
    Search visits
    289,878
  • Tellent Recruitee Screening Assistant
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    15,160
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 3,596
    Search visits
    120,991
  • Jobvite
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    18,853
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 592
    Search visits
    99,242
  • Recruit CRM
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    45,938
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 7,427
    Search visits
    13,896
  • Pinpoint
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    48,823
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 16,668
    Search visits
    140,100
  • Rytr
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    49,623
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 1,660
    Search visits
    13,149

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 15 of 81 sites shown.

Miles explains

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

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: BrightHire (+35%); biggest loss: Humanly (-72%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

  • BrightHire
    Sep 26
    5,674
    Oct 26
    7,661
    Change
    +35.0%
  • Phenom
    Sep 26
    15,039
    Oct 26
    20,240
    Change
    +34.6%
  • Claude
    Sep 26
    22,556,217
    Oct 26
    28,705,332
    Change
    +27.3%
  • Juicebox
    Sep 26
    21,874
    Oct 26
    27,014
    Change
    +23.5%
  • Recruitin
    Sep 26
    15,682
    Oct 26
    17,442
    Change
    +11.2%
  • Skima AI
    Sep 26
    31,579
    Oct 26
    34,354
    Change
    +8.8%

Down this month

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

  • Claude
    Oct 25
    1,220,000
    Sep 26
    9,140,000
    Change
    +649.2%
  • Qureos
    Oct 25
    60,500
    Sep 26
    110,000
    Change
    +81.8%
  • Hireflix
    Oct 25
    1,600
    Sep 26
    1,900
    Change
    +18.8%

Searched less

  • Rytr
    Oct 25
    3,600
    Sep 26
    1,000
    Change
    -72.2%
  • Zoho
    Oct 25
    201,000
    Sep 26
    110,000
    Change
    -45.3%
  • Textio
    Oct 25
    1,600
    Sep 26
    880
    Change
    -45.0%
  • Interviewer.AI
    Oct 25
    2,900
    Sep 26
    1,600
    Change
    -44.8%
  • Beamery
    Oct 25
    1,300
    Sep 26
    720
    Change
    -44.6%
  • hireEZ
    Oct 25
    2,900
    Sep 26
    1,900
    Change
    -34.5%

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 8 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
8.1% (3.4% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Germany and Canada
US share of "ai recruiting tools" searches
38%

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

02.557.510Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 268.1
Low 2.7High 9.3Average 6
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    166,759,996
    Share of the measured countries
    82%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    15,976,826
    Share of the measured countries
    7.9%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    11,823,886
    Share of the measured countries
    5.8%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    2,897,212
    Share of the measured countries
    1.4%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    2,624,178
    Share of the measured countries
    1.3%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    1,764,591
    Share of the measured countries
    0.9%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    1,503,007
    Share of the measured countries
    0.7%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the single biggest market, but only about 8 in every 100 visits. India alone is 82% of the countries I measure outside it.

6Links and ratings

The tracked sites had 930,502 referring domains between them in October 2026 (78 of the 81 sites measured); this is the first reading, so there is no year-on-year figure yet. The average Domain Rating is 63. ChatGPT has the strongest link profile at DR 93.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.