AI coding agent statistics, September 2026

Four numbers for September 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 26 AI coding agent sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google6.1Mvisits+78% vs a year ago
• Most visited site1.8MvisitsGemini CLI, 30% of all
• Expected in October6.3Mvisits+5% vs last month

• 6,056,581 Google visits went to the 26 AI coding agent sites RankDude tracks in September 2026, 78% more than a year earlier.
• Growing: the AI coding agent market is growing.
• 30% of all visits go to Gemini CLI, the most-visited AI coding agent; the five most-visited take 86.1%.
• 12.8% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Canada and Brazil.
• 6,346,530 visits expected in October 2026, likely between 5.4M and 7.3M.

Source: DataForSEO, Google Ads and Google Trends, September 2026, compiled by RankDude.

Growing.

Over two years, visits went from 2.1M in October 2024 to a high of 8.3M in July 2026, and stand at 6.1M in September 2026. Five sites take 86.1% of visits, so one ranking change at the top moves the whole line.

Visits, year on year

+78%

Visits, last six months

+9%

Name searches, US

+41%

Busiest month (2 years)

July 2026, 8.3M visits

Miles explains

I only call a market growing when visits and name searches agree. Here visits are up and name searches are up, so they agree.

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Google Trends barely registered “ai agents for coding” until August 2025; interest then climbed to its peak in May 2026.

Searches a month, US

390

Google Trends now

34/100 +209%

Five-year peak

94/100 in May 2026

Miles explains

Google Trends shows direction, not volume. Interest is higher than a year ago, and I only trust that when the visits move the same way.

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More visits than a year ago, more people searching by name, and the next six months look flat after a step up.

The fastest growers over the year, Kiro, CodeGPT and Amp, grew fastest, mostly from a smaller base. The losers, led by Qodo, lost most of their search visits (-85%).

Visits vs August 2026

-23%

Biggest gain this month

OpenCode +43%

Biggest loss this month

Gemini CLI -48%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like Kiro’s +620% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

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I expect October 2026 to be 5% more than September 2026, and the next six months to look up.

The forecast carries the level of recent months forward, not the trend line, because that version missed least when tested on past months.

Expected in October 2026

6,346,530 visits

Likely range

5.4M to 7.3M

Expected in April 2027

6.3M +5%

Past forecasts in range

4 of 6 months

Miles explains

Read the range, not the single number: tested on the last 6 months, my method landed inside its range 4 times.

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The most visited is Gemini CLI, with 1.8 million visits a month, 30% of all visits.

Gemini CLI and Replit together hold 48% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 21 sites share 13.9%.

Top five sites

86.1% of all visits

Visits from the US

12.8%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Canada and Brazil

Sites tracked

26

Miles explains

Gemini CLI alone has 30% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

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Yes. Every number on these pages comes from two CSV files, free to download.

Cite as: Miles Foster, “AI Coding Agents Statistics, September 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/ai-agents-for-coding/statistics

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