Is the AI research paper writer market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▲ Growing
- Visits, year on year, without ChatGPT
- +259%
- Visits, last six months
- +133%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- +6.3%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 6 AI research paper writer 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 948 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, ChatGPT; without it, visits are up 259% on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 320% in a year while another lost 50% 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 research paper writer market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 6 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google948Mvisits+318% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US133Msearches+6% vs October 2025
- Top five sites100%of visitsfastest grower: ChatGPT
- Expected in November986Mvisitslikely 904M to 1068M
- The AI research paper writer market is growing as of October 2026.
- The 6 AI research paper writer sites RankDude tracks got 948,478,789 visits from Google search in October 2026, 318% more visits than in October 2025, or 259% more without ChatGPT.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 133,167,060 times in September 2026, 6% more searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI research paper writer sites get 100% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI research paper writer site over the year: ChatGPT, +320% (219M to 919M visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Yomu, -50% (39.4K to 19.9K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 986M visits, likely between 904M and 1068M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI research paper writer sites than a year ago?
Up 318% on a year ago; up 4% on September 2026
Yes. The 6 tracked AI research paper writer sites got 948,478,789 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 318% more visits than in October 2025, or 259% 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 76,096,519, up 1387% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI research paper writer sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
948M
+317.7% on a year ago
United States, this month
76M
+1387.3% on a year ago
Two-year high
948M
October 2026
US share of visits
8%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
More visits than a year ago means new people are still finding AI research paper writer sites through Google. Most of that growth is one site, ChatGPT; without it, visits are up 259% on a year ago.
2.Are people searching for AI research paper writer sites by name?
Up 6% on October 2025; 133M name searches a month in the US
Yes, more than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI research paper writer sites 133,167,060 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 paper writer” itself gets about 1,000 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI research paper writer sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI research paper writer 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 research paper writer sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 100% of all visits
The five most-visited AI research paper writer sites get 100% 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: Yomu, from 39,367 to 19,887 visits (-50%).
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.