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AI Search Statistics 2026 Every figure from our own studies, with what it is of and when it was measured.
29 figures from 3 QueryRev Research studies: which AI crawlers top sites shut out, who publishes an llms.txt, how home pages describe themselves in structured data, and what SEO and AI-visibility tools charge. Each links to the section of the study it comes from.
- Figures
- 29
- Studies
- 3
- Measured
- 24 October 2026
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
AI crawler access
What top sites tell AI crawlers in robots.txt.
From State of AI Crawler Access: robots.txt read on a fixed panel of top sites. A site blocks a crawler by name when a group naming the crawler closes the whole site to it. The last figure is from the pricing study: the robots.txt of SEO tools’ pricing pages, read by the crawler study’s rules, for AI search crawlers.
14.2%
896 of 6,294 sites read
3.0%
190 of 6,294 sites read
ByteDance · AI training
9.5%
595 of 6,294 sites read
Common Crawl · AI training
9.4%
594 of 6,294 sites read
Google · AI training
6.5%
411 of 6,294 sites read
Amazon · AI search
6.5%
406 of 6,294 sites read
Meta · AI training
6.4%
401 of 6,294 sites read
1.7%
4 of 234 pages with a readable robots.txt
llms.txt and readiness
Who publishes an llms.txt, and what else is in place.
The llms.txt adoption figure is from State of AI Crawler Access; the others are from AI-Search Readiness of Top Sites, read on the same panel. A site whose robots.txt keeps our crawler from a file was not asked for it, so each figure names what it is a share of.
14.1%
848 of 6,030 sites asked for one
13.0%
787 of 6,066 sites asked for an llms.txt
55.9%
3,401 of 6,082 sites asked for a sitemap
80.7%
3,615 of 4,480 home pages read
Structured data
How home pages describe themselves in schema.org.
From AI-Search Readiness of Top Sites: structured data read in the HTML as served, before any script runs. Data added by a script counts as none.
49.2%
2,203 of 4,480 home pages read
40.0%
1,793 of 4,480 home pages read
28.6%
1,280 of 4,480 home pages read
34.5%
1,544 of 4,480 home pages read
3.6%
163 of 4,480 home pages read
Tool pricing
What SEO and AI-visibility tools charge.
From How SEO and AI-Visibility Tools Charge: plans and prices read from each tool’s own public pricing page. A figure marked “Checked in the second reading” is computed from the tools the editor checked, with their corrected values. Prices in another currency are not converted.
$45
Median of 75 checked tools priced in US dollars
US dollars a month · Interquartile range: $20 to $89
Checked in the second reading · 100 tools
$195
Median on 9 of 17 AI visibility trackers checked in the second reading
US dollars a month · Interquartile range: $125 to $326.67
Checked in the second reading · 100 tools
20.1%
Median of 24 checked tools showing an annual and a monthly price
Percent off twelve monthly prices · Interquartile range: 16.7% to 26.7%
Checked in the second reading · 100 tools
28.6%
24 of 84 checked tools with a public price
Checked in the second reading · 100 tools
5.6%
13 of 234 tools read
21.8%
43 of 197 tools with a public price
75.7%
28 of 37 AI visibility trackers with a public price
15.0%
15 of 100 checked pages served as HTML
Checked in the second reading · 100 tools
Sources
Three studies, measured by our own crawler.
Every figure on this page is computed from the published data of one of these studies and changes with it. No figure comes from anywhere else. The data is open under CC BY 4.0.
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APA
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@misc{queryrev2026aisearchstatistics,
author = {QueryRev Research},
title = {{AI Search Statistics 2026}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {QueryRev AI},
url = {https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-statistics},
note = {CC BY 4.0}
}Questions
How many top sites block AI crawlers?
14.2% of the 6,294 top sites read blocked at least one AI crawler by name in robots.txt, on 15 October 2026. 9.2% blocked GPTBot by name. Source: State of AI Crawler Access, October 2026 edition.
How many sites publish an llms.txt?
14.1% of the 6,030 top sites asked for one published an llms.txt, read on 15 October 2026. Source: State of AI Crawler Access, October 2026 edition.
How many home pages describe their organization in JSON-LD?
40.0% of the 4,480 home pages read describe an Organization in JSON-LD, read on 24 October 2026. Source: AI-Search Readiness of Top Sites, October 2026 edition.
What does an SEO tool cost a month at entry?
The median entry price was $45 a month, with an interquartile range of $20 to $89, of 75 checked tools priced in US dollars, read 24 October 2026. Source: How SEO and AI-Visibility Tools Charge, October 2026 edition.
Where do these figures come from?
From three studies by QueryRev Research: State of AI Crawler Access, AI-Search Readiness of Top Sites and How SEO and AI-Visibility Tools Charge. Each figure is computed from the study’s published data, names what it is a share or median of, and links to the section it comes from.
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