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

AI summarizer market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growingbut visits without Claude are down 30% on a year ago

Visits, year on year, without Claude
-30%
Visits vs September 2026
+6.3%
Name searches vs October 2025
+114%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 15 AI summarizer sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 57 million visits, 22% more than a year ago and 6% more than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 1200% in a year), who sits highest on Google, where the visitors live and what comes next.

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

AI summarizer 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 56,845,141 visits from Google in October 2026, 22% more than a year ago and 6% more than in September 2026. Claude, which takes 50.5% of all the visits, gained more visits on its own than the whole market gained in a year. Without it, visits would be down 29.5% on a year ago instead of up 21.6%. Claude gained more visits in October 2026 (6,149,115) than the whole market did (3,367,641); without it, visits to the other sites fell 9.0% on September 2026.
  • “ai summarizer” gets about 18,100 US searches a month. People searched the site names 12,198,230 times in the US in September 2026, 114% more often than in October 2025.
  • No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai summarizer”; the highest is Jotform, at position 15. Claude is the most-visited site.
  • 13.5% of visits came from the US (16% a year ago), then India, United Kingdom and Canada. The five most-visited sites took 98.3% of all visits.

1How many visits

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+22%), and October 2026 was a better month than September 2026 (+6%). Claude, which takes 50.5% of all the visits, gained more visits on its own than the whole market gained in a year. Without it, visits would be down 29.5% on a year ago instead of up 21.6%. Claude gained more visits in October 2026 (6,149,115) than the whole market did (3,367,641); without it, visits to the other sites fell 9.0% on September 2026.

Visits, October 2026
56,845,141 (+21.6% on a year ago, +6.3% on September 2026)
US visits
7,659,071 (+2.6% on a year ago)
24-month peak
this month, 56,845,141

WorldVisits a month to AI summarizer sites, worldwide

025M50M75M100MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2657M
Low 23MHigh 57MAverage 43M
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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 22% above a year ago, and this is the highest month in two years. 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 114% more often than in October 2025 (+114%). That is the loyalty number, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai summarizer"
18,100 a month in the US, 40,500 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
12,198,230 in the US (+114.1% since October 2025), 74,477,440 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai summarizer", United States

012.5K25.0K37.5K50.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2612.1K
Low 6.6KHigh 40.5KAverage 18.7K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

05.0M10M15M20MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2612M
Low 4.3MHigh 12MAverage 8.3M
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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.

Rising next to the term on Google Trends: “best ai summarizer”.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are up 114%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows more people coming back on purpose.

3Who is on Google's first page

No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai summarizer”; the highest-placed is Jotform, at position 15. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

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

Site

  • Jotform
    Google US
    15
    Tranco
    654
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 4
    Search visits
    2,158,101
  • Grammarly
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    323
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 244
    Search visits
    21,845,704
  • Claude
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    417
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 21
    Search visits
    28,705,332
  • SciSpace
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    15,715
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 4,174
    Search visits
    967,196
  • Fellow
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    48,064
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 5,336
    Search visits
    2
  • Notta
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    51,182
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 3,972
    Search visits
    332,935
  • NoteGPT
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    52,048
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 3,657
    Search visits
    2,218,442
  • Wordtune
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    52,336
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,746
    Search visits
    100,329
  • Paperguide
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    205,354
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 172,818
    Search visits
    204,959
  • AI Summarizer
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    327,909
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 38,150
    Search visits
    278,817
  • Recall
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    512,222
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 15,339
    Search visits
    1,530
  • SMMRY
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    712,307
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 113,100
    Search visits
    20,989
  • genei
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    852,693
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 113,748
    Search visits
    2,758
  • Sharly AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,490,200
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 15,245
    Search visits
    6,975
  • SummarizeBot
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,753,905
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 140,325
    Search visits
    1,072

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 15 of 15 sites shown.

Miles explains

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

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Paperguide (+71%); biggest loss: Sharly AI (-25%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

  • Paperguide
    Sep 26
    120,029
    Oct 26
    204,959
    Change
    +70.8%
  • Claude
    Sep 26
    22,556,217
    Oct 26
    28,705,332
    Change
    +27.3%
  • SMMRY
    Sep 26
    20,194
    Oct 26
    20,989
    Change
    +3.9%

Down this month

  • Sharly AI
    Sep 26
    9,278
    Oct 26
    6,975
    Change
    -24.8%
  • AI Summarizer
    Sep 26
    351,412
    Oct 26
    278,817
    Change
    -20.7%
  • NoteGPT
    Sep 26
    2,773,786
    Oct 26
    2,218,442
    Change
    -20.0%
  • Notta
    Sep 26
    391,654
    Oct 26
    332,935
    Change
    -15.0%
  • Jotform
    Sep 26
    2,509,530
    Oct 26
    2,158,101
    Change
    -14.0%
  • Wordtune
    Sep 26
    114,229
    Oct 26
    100,329
    Change
    -12.2%

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

  • Claude
    Oct 25
    1,220,000
    Sep 26
    9,140,000
    Change
    +649.2%

Searched less

  • AI Summarizer
    Oct 25
    40,500
    Sep 26
    12,100
    Change
    -70.1%
  • Wordtune
    Oct 25
    22,200
    Sep 26
    8,100
    Change
    -63.5%
  • SciSpace
    Oct 25
    14,800
    Sep 26
    8,100
    Change
    -45.3%
  • NoteGPT
    Oct 25
    49,500
    Sep 26
    33,100
    Change
    -33.1%
  • Notta
    Oct 25
    12,100
    Sep 26
    8,100
    Change
    -33.1%
  • Grammarly
    Oct 25
    4,090,000
    Sep 26
    2,740,000
    Change
    -33.0%

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 14 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
13.5% (16% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, United Kingdom and Canada
US share of "ai summarizer" searches
45%

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

06.2512.518.7525Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2613.5
Low 12High 20.1Average 17
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    9,626,848
    Share of the measured countries
    59.7%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    1,933,796
    Share of the measured countries
    12%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    1,647,025
    Share of the measured countries
    10.2%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    913,833
    Share of the measured countries
    5.7%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    843,564
    Share of the measured countries
    5.2%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    619,073
    Share of the measured countries
    3.8%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    529,245
    Share of the measured countries
    3.3%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the single biggest market, but only about 14 in every 100 visits. India alone is 59.7% of the countries I measure outside it.

6Links and ratings

The tracked sites had 670,119 referring domains between them in October 2026 (14 of the 15 sites measured); this is the first reading, so there is no year-on-year figure yet. The average Domain Rating is 69. Jotform has the strongest link profile at DR 94.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.