Is the AI resume builder market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▼ Shrinking
- Visits, year on year, without Canva
- -53%
- Visits, last six months
- -15%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- 0%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 27 AI resume builder 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 226 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, Canva; without it, visits are down 53% on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 23% in a year while another lost 91% 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 resume builder market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 27 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google226Mvisits-6% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US30Msearches0% vs October 2025
- Top five sites99.6%of visitsfastest grower: Kickresume
- Expected in November224Mvisitslikely 202M to 246M
- The AI resume builder market is shrinking as of October 2026.
- The 27 AI resume builder sites RankDude tracks got 225,513,784 visits from Google search in October 2026, 6% fewer visits than in October 2025, or 53% fewer without Canva.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 30,499,780 times in September 2026, about the same as in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI resume builder sites get 99.6% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI resume builder site over the year: Kickresume, +23% (178K to 218K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: BeamJobs, -91% (299K to 27.7K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 224M visits, likely between 202M and 246M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI resume builder sites than a year ago?
Down 6% on a year ago; up 6% on September 2026
No. The 27 tracked AI resume builder sites got 225,513,784 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 6% fewer visits than in October 2025, or 53% fewer without Canva, and 6% more visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was April 2026, with 264,781,411 visits; October 2026 is 15% below it. In the US, visits were 22,639,872, up 50% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI resume builder sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
226M
-5.5% on a year ago
United States, this month
23M
+50.3% on a year ago
Two-year high
265M
April 2026
US share of visits
10%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago, but the fall looks like it has stopped: October 2026 was up on September 2026. Google Trends interest in the term fell (-59%), but name searches did not, so some interest has cooled.
2.Are people searching for AI resume builder sites by name?
About level with October 2025 (0%); 30M name searches a month in the US
About as many as before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI resume builder sites 30,499,780 times in September 2026, about the same as 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 resume builder” itself gets about 27,100 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI resume builder sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI resume builder sites by name, searches a month
Canva30M a month
AIApply27.1K a month
Resume.io14.8K a month
Enhancv12.1K a month
Resume Worded12.1K a month
Kickresume8.1K a month
Miles explains
Name searches are level, so the regular users are still there.
3.Which AI resume builder sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 99.6% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 99.9%
The five most-visited AI resume builder sites get 99.6% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Kickresume, from 178,311 to 218,352 visits (+23%). Steepest fall: BeamJobs, from 299,303 to 27,726 visits (-91%).
Growing fastest, year on year
- Kickresume218K visits+23%
AI-Powered Career Platform60.5K visits+17%
Falling fastest, year on year
BeamJobs27.7K visits-91%
Huntr13.3K visits-91%
Resumai2.1K visits-85%
Novorésumé318K visits-83%
Rezi93.3K visits-80%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.