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

AI sourcing tool market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year, without Gem
-14%
Visits vs September 2026
+2.6%
Name searches vs October 2025
-4.7%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 14 AI sourcing tool sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 204,588 visits, 51% fewer than a year ago but 3% more than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 47% in a year), where the visitors live and what comes next.

Data from DataForSEO, Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Ahrefs · not a ranking

AI sourcing tool market: the key numbers for October 2026

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

  • The tracked sites got 204,588 visits from Google in October 2026, 51% fewer than a year ago and 3% more than in September 2026. 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%.
  • “ai sourcing tool” gets about 170 US searches a month. People searched the site names 71,110 times in the US in September 2026, 5% less often than in October 2025.
  • No tracked site ranks on Google for “ai sourcing tool”. Gem is the most-visited site.
  • 18.6% of visits came from the US (13.9% a year ago), then India, Canada and United Kingdom. The five most-visited sites took 87.3% of all visits.

1How many visits

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%.

Visits, October 2026
204,588 (-50.5% on a year ago, +2.6% on September 2026)
US visits
38,124 (-33.8% on a year ago)
24-month peak
467,619 in March 2025

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.

2How 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, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai sourcing tool"
170 a month in the US, 390 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
71,110 in the US (-4.7% since October 2025), 223,230 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai sourcing tool", United States

0125250375500Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26260
Low 140High 260Average 185
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

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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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Most searched by name, US

Ordered by US searches for the brand name in September 2026. A measured order, not a ranking.

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.

3Who is on Google's first page

No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai sourcing tool”. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

Ordered by US Google position for “ai sourcing tool”, then Tranco rank. A measured order, not a ranking.

Site

  • Gem
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    62,823
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 10,700
    Search visits
    103,048
  • Loxo
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    122,431
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 5,924
    Search visits
    5,573
  • Juicebox
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    184,033
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 51,351
    Search visits
    27,014
  • hireEZ
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    223,940
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 30,524
    Search visits
    5,272
  • Findem
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    261,002
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 73,678
    Search visits
    1,347
  • Pin
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    353,844
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 32,257
    Search visits
    10,165
  • SeekOut
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    663,254
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 4,970
    Search visits
    6,462
  • AmazingHiring
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    670,681
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 231,100
    Search visits
    440
  • Recruitin
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    694,923
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 64,503
    Search visits
    17,442
  • HeroHunt.ai
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    958,080
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 12,397
    Search visits
    20,931
  • Fetcher
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    981,190
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 323,290
    Search visits
    2,568
  • Entelo
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,029,121
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 117,302
    Search visits
    2
  • Perfect
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,873,288
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 434,824
    Search visits
    4,324
  • Hireflow.ai
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    –
    Move in 41 days
    –
    Search visits
    0

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 14 of 14 sites shown.

Miles explains

No tracked site sits high on Google for “ai sourcing tool”, so most visits here come from people who already know the names.

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Juicebox (+24%); biggest loss: SeekOut (-26%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

Down this month

  • SeekOut
    Sep 26
    8,679
    Oct 26
    6,462
    Change
    -25.5%
  • Loxo
    Sep 26
    5,903
    Oct 26
    5,573
    Change
    -5.6%
  • Pin
    Sep 26
    10,366
    Oct 26
    10,165
    Change
    -1.9%
  • Gem
    Sep 26
    104,079
    Oct 26
    103,048
    Change
    -1.0%

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched less

  • hireEZ
    Oct 25
    2,900
    Sep 26
    1,900
    Change
    -34.5%
  • SeekOut
    Oct 25
    9,900
    Sep 26
    8,100
    Change
    -18.2%

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 19 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
18.6% (13.9% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Canada and United Kingdom
US share of "ai sourcing tool" searches
44%

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

6Links and ratings

The tracked sites had 22,197 referring domains between them in October 2026 (13 of the 14 sites measured); this is the first reading, so there is no year-on-year figure yet. The average Domain Rating is 60. Gem has the strongest link profile at DR 79.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.