AI tutor statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 12 AI tutor sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google8.6Mvisits-28% vs a year ago
• Google searches22.2Ksearchesfor "ai tutor"
• Most visited site6.3MvisitsDuolingo, 73% of all
• Expected in November8.7Mvisits+1% vs last month

• 8,626,376 Google visits went to the 12 AI tutor sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 28% fewer than a year earlier (65% more without Duolingo).
• Growing: the AI tutor market is growing, but visits are down 38% since February 2026.
• 22,200 searches a month for “ai tutor” worldwide, 30% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 73% of all visits go to Duolingo, the most-visited AI tutor; the five most-visited take 99.2%.
• 10.4% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, the United Kingdom and Canada.
• 8,725,593 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 7.8M and 9.7M.

Source: DataForSEO, Google Ads and Google Trends, October 2026, compiled by RankDude.

Growing, but visits are down 38% since February 2026.

Over two years, visits went from 7.3M in November 2024 to a high of 14M in December 2024, and stand at 8.6M in October 2026. Much of the year’s change is one site, Duolingo, which is why I also look at the market without it.

Visits, year on year

+65%

Visits, last six months

-26%

Name searches, US

-2%

Busiest month (2 years)

December 2024, 14M visits

Miles explains

I only call a market growing when visits and name searches agree. Here visits are up and name searches are level, so they don’t agree yet.

Open the AI tutor market demand page

“ai tutor” is searched about 22,200 times a month worldwide, 30% of it in the US.

Google Trends barely registered “ai tutor” until May 2024; interest then climbed to its peak in May 2026. Americans make 30% of the searches but only 10.4% of the visits, because the big sites also draw heavily from India, United Kingdom and Canada.

Searches a month, US

6,600

Google Trends now

24/100 -33%

Five-year peak

59/100 in May 2026

Miles explains

Google Trends shows direction, not volume. Interest is lower than a year ago, and I only trust that when the visits move the same way.

Open the AI tutor search trends page

Fewer visits than a year ago only because of Duolingo, name searches holding steady, and the next six months look flat.

The fastest growers over the year, Numerade (Ace), StudyFetch and Talkpal, grew fastest, mostly from a smaller base. The losers, led by Khanmigo, lost most of their search visits (-89%).

Visits vs September 2026

-7%

Biggest gain this month

Synthesis +61%

Biggest loss this month

Khanmigo -35%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like Numerade (Ace)’s +355% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

Open the AI tutor monthly analysis page

I expect November 2026 to be about the same as October 2026, and the next six months to look flat.

The forecast carries the level of recent months forward, not the trend line, because that version missed least when tested on past months. November is usually a busier month than average for searches, but the calendar did not improve the forecast, so it is left out.

Expected in November 2026

8,725,593 visits

Likely range

7.8M to 9.7M

Expected in May 2027

8.7M +1%

Past forecasts in range

4 of 6 months

Miles explains

Read the range, not the single number: tested on the last 6 months, my method landed inside its range 4 times.

Open the AI tutor monthly forecast page

The most visited is Duolingo, with 6.3 million visits a month, 73% of all visits.

Duolingo and Talkpal together hold 86% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 7 sites share 0.8%.

Top five sites

99.2% of all visits

Visits from the US

10.4%

Largest markets outside the US

India, United Kingdom and Canada

Sites tracked

12

Miles explains

Duolingo alone has 73% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI tutor industry report page

Yes. Every number on these pages comes from two CSV files, free to download.

sites.csv has one row per site: its Google US position for “ai tutor”, Tranco rank, Chrome UX tier, visits from Google worldwide and in the US, name searches, Domain Rating and referring domains, with the month each figure covers. market.csv has the monthly totals across the tracked sites: visits worldwide and in the US, name searches and referring domains. Blanks mean the source had no figure, never zero.

Cite as: Miles Foster, “AI Tutor Statistics, October 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-tutor