AI girlfriend statistics (2026)
Dated AI girlfriend statistics: search volume by country, keywords rising and falling, product traffic and Telegram bot users, each one with its source.
The most reliable public number in this category is 1,632,000 searches a year for the term "ai girlfriend" in English, from an Ahrefs pull published by TRG Datacenters in 2024. Almost everything else is a range, an estimate or a self-reported figure, and this page labels which is which. Google Keyword Planner, pulled on 14 September 2026, puts the same term in a 100K to 1M average monthly band with no year-on-year change, which tells you the head term has plateaued while the long tail has not.
How many people search for this
| Term | Volume | Source and date |
|---|---|---|
| ai girlfriend | 1,632,000 a year, about 136,000 a month | Ahrefs pull via TRG Datacenters, 2024 |
| ai boyfriend | 180,000 a year, about 15,000 a month | Same |
| ai girlfriends | 31,200 a year | Same |
| ai dating | 30,000 a year | Same |
| romance ai | 20,400 a year | Same |
| character ai (US) | About 3.98M average monthly searches | Statista, January 2023 to December 2024 |
The Character.AI line is the one people underrate. Semrush attributes about 933,000 monthly visits to that single keyword, which means brand search in this category dwarfs generic search. In the US, "ai girlfriend" itself went from about 7,200 monthly searches in late 2023 to about 87,000 in early 2025, peaking near 112,000 in April 2025. That trend line comes from a secondary industry report, not from a tool export we ran, so read the shape as real and the individual points as approximate.
Where the demand is
Country figures below are annual searches across the AI-relationship keyword cluster.
| Country | Annual searches | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 693,600 | TRG dataset, 2024 |
| India | 287,000 | TRG dataset, 2024 |
| United Kingdom | 124,000 | TRG dataset, 2024 |
| Brazil | About 125,000 | Secondary source, Q2 2025, directional |
| Mexico | About 98,000 | Secondary source, Q2 2025, directional |
| Canada | 92,000 | TRG dataset, 2024 |
| South Korea | About 74,000 | Secondary source, Q2 2025, directional |
| Germany | 47,600 | TRG dataset, 2024 |
| Australia | 43,700 | TRG dataset, 2024 |
| Philippines | 31,400 | TRG dataset, 2024 |
One 2026 analysis puts the United States at roughly 42% of global AI-relationship search interest. Non-English demand is real and growing: Keyword Planner shows "novia virtual" in Spanish at 10K to 100K a month, with "novia ia", "namorada ia", "ии девушка" and "yapay zeka sevgili" all flagged as up 900% year on year.
What is rising and what is falling
Google Keyword Planner data below was pulled on 14 September 2026 for September 2025 to August 2026. The account has no active campaign, so Planner returns bands rather than exact counts, and it reports change in coarse steps. Read +900% and -90% as direction, not as a measured delta.
| Keyword | Average monthly | Year on year |
|---|---|---|
| ai girlfriend | 100K to 1M | 0% |
| ai girlfriend simulator | 10K to 100K | +900% |
| ai companion app | 1K to 10K | +900%, over a three month window |
| ai threesome | 1K to 10K | +900% |
| tsundere ai | 100 to 1K | +900% |
| ai girlfriend app | 10K to 100K | -90% |
| best ai girlfriend | 10K to 100K | -90% |
| ai sexting | 10K to 100K | -90% |
| telegram ai girlfriend bot | 100 to 1K | -90% |
Two patterns sit in that table. App-shaped intent is falling while simulator and companion framing rise, and the highest advertiser bids are not on the head term at all: "ai group chat roleplay" carries a $10.36 top bid on 10 to 100 monthly searches, and "multi character ai chat" carries $5.04. Tiny audiences, buyers who know exactly what feature they want.
How big the products actually are
Similarweb total visits, September 2026 snapshot. These are estimates from a free overview page, not audited traffic.
| Product | Monthly visits | Notable |
|---|---|---|
| Character.AI | About 160M | 72% direct, no adult content |
| Janitor AI | About 142M | 73% direct |
| SpicyChat | About 69M | |
| Candy.ai | About 64M | 57% of traffic from affiliates |
| OurDream | About 53M | 44% affiliate |
| CrushOn | About 23M | Sessions around 13 minutes |
| Talkie | About 7M | Sessions around 18 minutes |
| Muah.ai | About 800K | 45% organic, breached in 2024 |
| Replika | About 530K | Romantic roleplay removed February 2023 |
On Telegram the public numbers come from the platform's own monthly-users counter, as compiled by a third-party listicle in August 2026: Lucid Dreams 1,154,934, AnyChars 18+ 282,595, SpicyTalks 211,606, AERA 191,845, GoSpicy 141,641, KissMe 97,460, Sweet Talks 54,751, DreamHoney 50,425.
What none of these numbers tell you
Category growth is usually quoted at about 25% a year. That comes from a secondary analysis, not from audited revenue, and no credible total market size exists for AI companions specifically.
Adult-classified keywords return no data at all in Keyword Planner. "nsfw ai chat", "ai roleplay nsfw" and even "ai girlfriend memory" come back hidden, so every volume estimate in this category systematically undercounts the part of it people actually pay for.
Demographics are the biggest gap. Age, gender and income breakdowns circulate in listicles and trace back to self-reported industry indexes with no published methodology. We left them out rather than launder them.
Worth knowing about the sites that publish these figures: the most-cited English Telegram listicle site draws roughly 18,000 visits per quarter. The numbers travel much further than the sites that produce them.
Sources
Search volume and country splits: Ahrefs data published by TRG Datacenters, 2024, plus a secondary industry analysis for the 2025 country figures and the US monthly trend, both marked directional above. Keyword bands and year-on-year change: Google Keyword Planner, pulled 14 September 2026 for September 2025 to August 2026. Brand search: Statista, January 2023 to December 2024, and Semrush. Traffic: Similarweb free overview pages, September 2026 snapshot. Telegram monthly users: Telegram's public counter, compiled by a third-party listicle in August 2026. Category growth estimate and the US share of global interest: YourAIGFs, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
- How many people search for an AI girlfriend?
- The most-cited figure is 1,632,000 searches a year for the English term, from an Ahrefs pull published by TRG Datacenters in 2024. Google Keyword Planner, pulled on 14 September 2026, puts the term in its 100K to 1M average monthly band with no year-on-year change.
- Which country searches for AI girlfriends the most?
- The United States, by a wide margin: about 693,600 searches a year against 287,000 for India and 124,000 for the United Kingdom in the TRG dataset. One 2026 analysis puts the US at roughly 42% of global AI-relationship search interest.
- How big is the AI girlfriend market?
- There is no audited figure, and anyone quoting one to two decimal places is guessing. The defensible numbers are traffic and growth: Character.AI draws around 160 million visits a month and Candy.ai around 64 million per Similarweb in September 2026, with category growth estimated near 25% a year.
- What is the biggest AI girlfriend bot on Telegram?
- By Telegram's own public monthly-users counter, Lucid Dreams (@luciddreams_bot) is the largest at 1,154,934 monthly users, followed by AnyChars 18+ at 282,595, as compiled by a third-party listicle in August 2026. Those counters come from the platform itself and are not audited.
- Are there reliable demographics for AI girlfriend users?
- No. Age, gender and income splits circulate widely but trace back to self-reported industry indexes with no published methodology, so this page leaves them out.
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Updated: 2026-09-15