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

AI Sourcing Tool Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year, without Gem
-14%
Visits, last six months
-41%
Name searches vs October 2025
-4.7%

Every key number on the AI sourcing tool market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 14 sites I measure got about 204,588 visits from Google, 51% fewer than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 87.3% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for November 2026.

Published 2 November 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

AI sourcing tool industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 14 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    204,588
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -50.5% year on year, +2.6% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    38,124
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -33.8% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    18.6%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    71,110
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -4.7% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    223,230
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -3.0% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai sourcing tool”, US
    Value
    170
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai sourcing tool”, worldwide
    Value
    390
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    22,197
    Period and basis
    October 2026 (13 of 14 sites measured); first reading, no year-on-year figure yet
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    87.3%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    99.1%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai sourcing tool”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai sourcing tool”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out Gem, Perfect and Pin: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got fewer visits from Google than a year ago (-51%), and October 2026 was about the same as September 2026 (+3%). Gem, which takes 50.4% of all the visits, accounts for most of the fall (92% of it). Without it, visits would be down 13.8% on a year ago instead of down 50.5%.

WorldVisits a month to AI sourcing tool sites, worldwide

0125K250K375K500KNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26205K
Low 199KHigh 468KAverage 332K
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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 51% below a year ago, and 56% below the March 2025 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

3How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 5% less often than in October 2025 (-5%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

025.0K50.0K75.0K100KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2671.1K
Low 57.8KHigh 81.8KAverage 70.7K
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are down 5%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows fewer people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 19 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 7 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

012.52537.550Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2618.6
Low 10.6High 26.2Average 17
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    36,077
    Share of the measured countries
    75.9%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    5,259
    Share of the measured countries
    11.1%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    3,325
    Share of the measured countries
    7%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    1,029
    Share of the measured countries
    2.2%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    754
    Share of the measured countries
    1.6%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    686
    Share of the measured countries
    1.4%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    398
    Share of the measured countries
    0.8%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 19 in every 100 visits. India alone is 75.9% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

Gem gets the most visits, Juicebox is the name people search for most, and no tracked site ranks on Google for “ai sourcing tool”. The five most-visited sites take 87.3% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

By US brand-name searches

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 87.3% of all visits. When one of them gains or loses a big ranking, the whole market total moves with it.

6Who grew and who shrank

The fastest grower in a year was Juicebox (+47%); the steepest fall was at Findem (-86%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • Juicebox
    A year ago
    18,321
    Now
    27,014
    Change
    +47%

Declining

  • Findem
    A year ago
    9,886
    Now
    1,347
    Change
    -86%
  • Gem
    A year ago
    295,477
    Now
    103,048
    Change
    -65%
  • SeekOut
    A year ago
    12,887
    Now
    6,462
    Change
    -50%
  • Loxo
    A year ago
    8,769
    Now
    5,573
    Change
    -36%
  • Recruitin
    A year ago
    23,216
    Now
    17,442
    Change
    -25%
  • HeroHunt.ai
    A year ago
    23,560
    Now
    20,931
    Change
    -11%
  • Pin
    A year ago
    10,931
    Now
    10,165
    Change
    -7%
  • hireEZ
    A year ago
    5,317
    Now
    5,272
    Change
    -1%

Worldwide search visits, October 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

To cite this report: RankDude, “AI Sourcing Tool Industry Report, October 2026”, published 2 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-sourcing/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.