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

Vertical AI Agents Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year
-54%
Visits, last six months
-25%
Name searches vs October 2025
-14%

Every key number on the vertical AI agent market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 59 sites I measure got about 3.1 million visits from Google, 54% fewer than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 73.8% 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 1 November 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

Vertical AI agent industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 59 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    3,131,894
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -54.0% year on year, +2.7% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    560,340
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -38.3% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    17.9%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    299,560
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -13.6% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    1,183,520
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -13.7% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “vertical ai agents”, US
    Value
    170
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “vertical ai agents”, worldwide
    Value
    720
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    73.8%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    84%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “vertical ai agents”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “vertical ai agents”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out Augury, BlackLine, Consensus, Elicit, Harvey, Jump, Legora, Luminance, Magical, Momos, Numa, Numeric, Paradigm, Puzzle, Quadratic, Rows, Spellbook and VIKTOR: 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 (-54%), and October 2026 was about the same as September 2026 (+3%).

WorldVisits a month to vertical AI agent sites, worldwide

02.5M5.0M7.5M10MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 263.1M
Low 2.0MHigh 7.0MAverage 4.9M
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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 54% below a year ago, and 55% below the May 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 14% less often than in October 2025 (-14%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

0125K250K375K500KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26300K
Low 256KHigh 347KAverage 293K
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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 14%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows fewer people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 18 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 21 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

05101520Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2617.9
Low 13.3High 19.5Average 17
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    613,164
    Share of the measured countries
    69.1%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    72,031
    Share of the measured countries
    8.1%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    65,101
    Share of the measured countries
    7.3%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    44,207
    Share of the measured countries
    5%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    41,729
    Share of the measured countries
    4.7%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    25,709
    Share of the measured countries
    2.9%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    24,488
    Share of the measured countries
    2.8%
  • Philippines
    Search visits a month
    397
    Share of the measured countries
    0%
  • Indonesia
    Search visits a month
    169
    Share of the measured countries
    0%
  • Italy
    Search visits a month
    66
    Share of the measured countries
    0%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 18 in every 100 visits. India alone is 69.1% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

SciSpace gets the most visits, Freed Front Desk is the name people search for most, and no tracked site ranks on Google for “vertical ai agents”. The five most-visited sites take 73.8% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

  • SciSpace
    Visits a month
    967,196
  • Consensus
    Visits a month
    663,320
  • Elicit
    Visits a month
    296,084
  • HighRadius
    Visits a month
    195,156
  • Julius AI
    Visits a month
    190,762
  • ResearchRabbit
    Visits a month
    82,246
  • Rows
    Visits a month
    74,441
  • Harvey
    Visits a month
    63,791
  • Scite
    Visits a month
    53,214
  • GPT for Work
    Visits a month
    43,670

By US brand-name searches

  • Freed Front Desk
    Searches a month
    135,000
  • HireVue
    Searches a month
    18,100
  • Holistiplan
    Searches a month
    12,100
  • Zocks
    Searches a month
    12,100
  • EvenUp
    Searches a month
    9,900
  • Hippocratic AI
    Searches a month
    9,900
  • FloQast
    Searches a month
    8,100
  • Hebbia
    Searches a month
    8,100
  • SciSpace
    Searches a month
    8,100
  • SeekOut
    Searches a month
    8,100

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 73.8% 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 Hippocratic AI (+230%); the steepest fall was at GPT for Work (-94%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • Hippocratic AI
    A year ago
    7,515
    Now
    24,790
    Change
    +230%
  • Billtrust
    A year ago
    8,494
    Now
    21,725
    Change
    +156%
  • Hebbia
    A year ago
    6,215
    Now
    11,988
    Change
    +93%
  • FloQast
    A year ago
    14,040
    Now
    21,435
    Change
    +53%
  • Numeric
    A year ago
    16,672
    Now
    23,098
    Change
    +39%
  • Freed Front Desk
    A year ago
    24,474
    Now
    32,238
    Change
    +32%
  • Ylopo
    A year ago
    5,123
    Now
    6,749
    Change
    +32%
  • HighRadius
    A year ago
    168,093
    Now
    195,156
    Change
    +16%

Declining

  • GPT for Work
    A year ago
    760,683
    Now
    43,670
    Change
    -94%
  • Nomic
    A year ago
    61,050
    Now
    3,559
    Change
    -94%
  • Julius AI
    A year ago
    1,760,304
    Now
    190,762
    Change
    -89%
  • Notable
    A year ago
    18,001
    Now
    2,479
    Change
    -86%
  • Stacks
    A year ago
    17,493
    Now
    3,734
    Change
    -79%
  • BlackLine
    A year ago
    79,103
    Now
    18,289
    Change
    -77%
  • Suki
    A year ago
    22,402
    Now
    5,771
    Change
    -74%
  • Momos
    A year ago
    92,652
    Now
    27,007
    Change
    -71%

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

To cite this report: RankDude, “Vertical AI Agents Industry Report, October 2026”, published 1 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/vertical-ai-agents/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.

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