Is the AI resume screening tool market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▼ Shrinking
- Visits, year on year
- -54%
- Visits, last six months
- -46%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- +2.0%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 41 AI resume screening tool 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 2.8 million visits.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 283% in a year while another lost 94% 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 screening tool market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 41 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google2.8Mvisits-54% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US593Ksearches+2% vs October 2025
- Top five sites69.7%of visitsfastest grower: X0PA AI
- Expected in November2.7Mvisitslikely 2.2M to 3.2M
- The AI resume screening tool market is shrinking as of October 2026.
- The 41 AI resume screening tool sites RankDude tracks got 2,819,897 visits from Google search in October 2026, 54% fewer visits than in October 2025.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 592,720 times in September 2026, about the same as in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI resume screening tool sites get 69.7% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI resume screening tool site over the year: X0PA AI, +283% (12.0K to 45.8K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Eightfold AI, -94% (1.1M to 68.5K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 2.7M visits, likely between 2.2M and 3.2M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI resume screening tool sites than a year ago?
Down 54% on a year ago; down 13% on September 2026
No. The 41 tracked AI resume screening tool sites got 2,819,897 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 54% fewer visits than in October 2025, and 13% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was January 2025, with 8,852,568 visits; October 2026 is 68% below it. In the US, visits were 863,322, down 65% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI resume screening tool sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
2.8M
-54.2% on a year ago
United States, this month
863K
-65.1% on a year ago
Two-year high
8.9M
January 2025
US share of visits
30.6%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago and lower than in September 2026, so the fall is still going. Google Trends interest in the term fell (-56%), but name searches did not, so some interest has cooled.
2.Are people searching for AI resume screening tool sites by name?
About level with October 2025 (+2%); 593K 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 screening tool sites 592,720 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 screening” itself gets about 320 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI resume screening tool sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI resume screening tool sites by name, searches a month
Miles explains
Name searches are level, so the regular users are still there.
3.Which AI resume screening tool sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 69.7% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 88.7%
The five most-visited AI resume screening tool sites get 69.7% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: X0PA AI, from 11,959 to 45,788 visits (+283%). Steepest fall: Eightfold AI, from 1,077,359 to 68,486 visits (-94%).
Growing fastest, year on year
Falling fastest, year on year
Eightfold AI68.5K visits-94%
Glider AI4.8K visits-75%
Lever151K visits-70%
Paradox22.2K visits-69%
Jobvite99.2K visits-64%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.