Is the AI video detector market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▼ Shrinking
- Visits, year on year, without Deepware Scanner
- +0.5%
- Visits, last six months
- -13%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- -12%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 17 AI video detector 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 280,408 visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, Deepware Scanner; without it, visits are about level on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 161% in a year while another lost 92% 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 video detector market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 17 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google280Kvisits-14% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US14.4Ksearches-12% vs October 2025
- Top five sites90.9%of visitsfastest grower: Cudekai
- Expected in November280Kvisitslikely 257K to 302K
- The AI video detector market is shrinking as of October 2026.
- The 17 AI video detector sites RankDude tracks got 280,408 visits from Google search in October 2026, 14% fewer visits than in October 2025, or about the same without Deepware Scanner.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 14,430 times in September 2026, 12% fewer searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI video detector sites get 90.9% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI video detector site over the year: Cudekai, +161% (33.7K to 88.0K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Sensity AI, -92% (20.7K to 1.7K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 280K visits, likely between 257K and 302K.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI video detector sites than a year ago?
Down 14% on a year ago; about level with September 2026 (-1%)
Only because of Deepware Scanner. The 17 tracked AI video detector sites got 280,408 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 14% fewer visits than in October 2025, or about the same without Deepware Scanner, and about the same as in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was February 2026, with 434,179 visits; October 2026 is 35% below it. In the US, visits were 65,351, up 19% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI video detector sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
280K
-14.0% on a year ago
United States, this month
65.4K
+19.4% on a year ago
Two-year high
434K
February 2026
US share of visits
23.3%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago, but the fall looks like it has stopped: October 2026 was level on September 2026. Name searches (-12%) and Google Trends interest in the term (-52%) fell too, so people are less interested, not just finding these sites less often.
2.Are people searching for AI video detector sites by name?
Down 12% on October 2025; 14.4K name searches a month in the US
Fewer than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI video detector sites 14,430 times in September 2026, 12% fewer searches than 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 video detector” itself gets about 3,600 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI video detector sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI video detector sites by name, searches a month
AI or Not6.6K a month
Sightengine1.9K a month
Reality Defender1.6K a month
Resemble AI1.6K a month
Deepfake Detection720 a month
CheckAI480 a month
Miles explains
Name searches are down, so fewer people are coming back on purpose. Better Google rankings will not fix that.
3.Which AI video detector sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 90.9% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 96.9%
The five most-visited AI video detector sites get 90.9% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Cudekai, from 33,691 to 88,002 visits (+161%). Steepest fall: Sensity AI, from 20,675 to 1,710 visits (-92%).
Falling fastest, year on year
Sensity AI1.7K visits-92%
Deepware Scanner5.2K visits-90%- Reality Defender1.9K visits-79%
DuckDuckGoose2.3K visits-59%- Resemble AI43.2K visits-52%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.