Is the AI report generator market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▼ Shrinkingbut visits are up 22% over the last six months
- Visits, year on year, without Manus
- -33%
- Visits, last six months
- +22%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- -48%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 5 AI report generator 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 1.2 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, Manus; without it, visits are down 33% on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 285% in a year while another lost 58% 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 report generator market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 5 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google1.2Mvisits+189% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US3.5Ksearches-48% vs October 2025
- Expected in November1.2Mvisitslikely 1.0M to 1.4M
- The AI report generator market is shrinking as of October 2026, but visits are up 22% over the last six months.
- The 5 AI report generator sites RankDude tracks got 1,200,751 visits from Google search in October 2026, 189% more visits than in October 2025, or 33% fewer without Manus.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 3,500 times in September 2026, 48% fewer searches than in October 2025.
- Fastest-growing AI report generator site over the year: Manus, +285% (290K to 1.1M visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: DashThis, -58% (51.2K to 21.4K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 1.2M visits, likely between 1.0M and 1.4M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI report generator sites than a year ago?
Up 189% on a year ago; down 16% on September 2026
Only because of Manus. The 5 tracked AI report generator sites got 1,200,751 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 189% more visits than in October 2025, or 33% fewer without Manus, and 16% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was August 2026, with 1,495,601 visits; October 2026 is 20% below it. In the US, visits were 84,073, up 16% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI report generator sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
1.2M
+189.0% on a year ago
United States, this month
84.1K
+16.2% on a year ago
Two-year high
1.5M
August 2026
US share of visits
7%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
More visits than a year ago means new people are still finding AI report generator sites through Google. Most of that growth is one site, Manus; without it, visits are down 33% on a year ago.
2.Are people searching for AI report generator sites by name?
Down 48% on October 2025; 3.5K name searches a month in the US
Fewer than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI report generator sites 3,500 times in September 2026, 48% fewer 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 report generator” itself gets about 390 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI report generator sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI report generator sites by name, searches a month
Databox2.4K a month
Whatagraph590 a month
DashThis480 a month
Reportmaker.ai30 a month
Miles explains
Name searches are down, so fewer people are coming back on purpose. Better Google rankings will not fix that.
3.Which AI report generator sites grew, and which shrank?
Fastest grower over the year: Manus, from 290,065 to 1,116,055 visits (+285%). Steepest fall: DashThis, from 51,161 to 21,415 visits (-58%).
Growing fastest, year on year
Manus1.1M visits+285%
Falling fastest, year on year
- DashThis21.4K visits-58%
- Databox27.5K visits-42%
- Whatagraph25.7K visits-4%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.