AI coding agent statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 25 AI coding agent sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google4.7Mvisits+98% vs a year ago
• Most visited site1.5MvisitsGemini CLI, 31% of all
• Expected in November4.7Mvisits+1% vs last month

• 4,714,416 Google visits went to the 25 AI coding agent sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 98% more than a year earlier.
• Growing: the AI coding agent market is growing, but visits are down 36% since July 2026.
• 31% of all visits go to Gemini CLI, the most-visited AI coding agent; the five most-visited take 85.5%.
• 8.5% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Canada and Brazil.
• 4,743,000 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 3.9M and 5.6M.

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

Growing, but visits are down 36% since July 2026.

Over two years, visits went from 526K in November 2024 to a high of 7.4M in July 2026, and stand at 4.7M in October 2026. Five sites take 85.5% of visits, so one ranking change at the top moves the whole line.

Visits, year on year

+98%

Visits, last six months

-11%

Name searches, US

+142%

Busiest month (2 years)

July 2026, 7.4M 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.

The fastest growers over the year, OpenCode, Kiro and CodeGPT, grew fastest, mostly from a smaller base. The losers, led by Tabby, lost most of their search visits (-79%).

Visits vs September 2026

-5%

Biggest gain this month

Qodo +55%

Biggest loss this month

Sculptor -34%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like OpenCode’s +6037% 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 November 2026 to be about the same as October 2026, and the next six months to look flat.

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 November 2026

4,743,000 visits

Likely range

3.9M to 5.6M

Expected in May 2027

4.7M +1%

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 1.5 million visits a month, 31% of all visits.

Gemini CLI and Cursor together hold 54% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 20 sites share 14.5%.

Top five sites

85.5% of all visits

Visits from the US

8.5%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Canada and Brazil

Sites tracked

25

Miles explains

Gemini CLI alone has 31% 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, October 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-agents-for-coding

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