AI Girlfriend Industry Report, September 2026

This report covers the AI girlfriend sites tracked by Top AI Girlfriends: the ones with real visibility, a place in Tranco’s top million domains or a Google position for the category’s searches. All figures are for September 2026 unless stated, from DataForSEO (traffic estimates, ranked keywords, Google Ads search volume, links), Tranco and Domain Rating by Ahrefs, pulled once a month. The sites themselves were each tested with a paid membership.

The numbers at a glance

In plain words: Every important figure for September 2026 in one table, with the month it covers and where it comes from, so you can quote it.

How many people visited

In plain words: Fewer people came to these sites from Google than a year ago (-16%), and September 2026 was a better month than August 2026 (+4%).

In September 2026 the tracked sites received an estimated 8,458,432 visits from Google search worldwide, -15.7% against a year earlier and +3.7% against the month before. The 24-month peak was 10,038,844 in September 2025. United States visits were 2,146,537, +7.0% year on year, which is 25.4% of the worldwide total.

Worldwide search visits a month, sum of the tracked sites. DataForSEO estimates of visits from Google results only; app, ad and direct traffic are not included.

How many people went looking

In plain words: More people typed a site’s name into Google than a year ago (+28%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

People typed the names of the tracked brands into Google about 2,951,570 times a month in the US in August 2026 (+28.3% year on year) and 11,919,420 times worldwide (+34.2%). The category’s own search, “ai girlfriend”, averages 135,000 searches a month in the US and 450,000 worldwide, and that one term sends the tracked sites an estimated 113,405 US visits a month.

US searches a month for the tracked brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO; twelve months to August 2026.

Where the visitors live

In plain words: About 25 of every 100 visits come from the United States, which is where most of the paying users are. The rest is spread across 21 other countries.

The US supplied 25.4% of worldwide search visits in September 2026. Of the visits that come from outside the US, the largest sources among the countries estimated individually are India (25.2%), Indonesia (13.1%), Canada (8.4%).

US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

The biggest sites

In plain words: SpicyChat gets the most visits, SpicyChat is the name people search for most, and AIGirlfriends.ai holds the top Google spot for “ai girlfriend”. The five biggest sites take 63.1% of all visits.

The top 5 sites hold 63.1% of worldwide search visits and the top 10 hold 77.9%.

Who grew and who shrank

In plain words: Candy AI grew the most in a year (+3451%); Kuki AI fell the most (-100%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Worldwide search visits, September 2026 against the same month a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

What happens next

In plain words: We expect about 8.4M visits in October 2026 (about the same as September 2026) and about 8.4M by April 2027, so the next six months look flat.

Our forecast, made on 2026-10-08 from this month’s figures: 8,366,285 worldwide search visits in October 2026 (range 7,437,628 to 9,294,943), and about 8,366,285 by April 2027 (range 6,880,433 to 9,852,138). US visits: 2,115,935 in October 2026. Every forecast is marked in public the month after it closes.

A weighted average of the last twelve months of each series, with last month counting for 85% and each earlier month for progressively less, carried forward; the weighting is re-chosen every month from a backtest of the series' own last nine months. The seasonal index (five years of Google Trends interest, ratio to a centred twelve-month average) is tested the same way and is not used this month because it made the backtest worse. The range is the method's typical miss over those nine months, widening 10% per month of distance. The full reasoning, the seasonal calendar, the site-by-site forecasts and the running accuracy record are in the AI girlfriend monthly forecast.

How we count

In plain words: Every number comes from the same tools, pulled once a month, for every site alike. Here is what each one means.

Tracked sites.

AI girlfriend and companion sites with real visibility: a Tranco top-million rank or a Google position for the category’s searches. Every site with real visibility feeds this report. Sites that go offline or turn out not to be AI girlfriend products are removed.

Search visits.

DataForSEO Labs estimates of monthly visits from Google organic results, worldwide and for the United States, summed across the tracked sites. Not a count of all traffic.

Brand-name searches.

Google Ads monthly search volume for each brand’s name, via DataForSEO, summed. Google Ads data runs a month behind traffic data.

Category searches.

Google Ads volume for “ai girlfriend” (12-month average) in the US, worldwide and per country; visits from the term are DataForSEO ranked-keyword estimates per site.

Country split.

DataForSEO per-country traffic estimates for each site, summed; shares are of the non-US visits among the countries estimated.

Forecast.

From the October 2026 monthly forecast: a weighted average of the recent months carried forward, with a range the size of the method’s own recent misses, re-tuned every month and marked in public the month after.

Refresh.

Data is pulled once a month; each month’s report is kept as published at its own URL.

This report measures the market. For the sites themselves, each bought, tested for a month and ordered on the same data, see the best AI girlfriend ranking.