Is the AI coding agent market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▲ Growingbut visits are down 36% since July 2026
- Visits, year on year
- +98%
- Visits, last six months
- -11%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- +142%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 25 AI coding agent sites I track (DataForSEO estimates) and how often people in the US search for them by name (Google Ads). In October 2026 they got about 4.7 million visits. Gemini CLI lost more visits in October 2026 (318,159) than the whole market did (231,152); without it, visits to the other sites rose 2.8% on September 2026.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 6037% in a year while another lost 79% of its visits. See who grew and who shrank, the visits month by month and the name searches, plus what I expect for November 2026.
AI coding agent market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 25 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google4.7Mvisits+98% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US198Ksearches+142% vs October 2025
- Top five sites85.5%of visitsfastest grower: OpenCode
- Expected in November4.7Mvisitslikely 3.9M to 5.6M
- The AI coding agent market is growing as of October 2026, but visits are down 36% since July 2026.
- The 25 AI coding agent sites RankDude tracks got 4,714,416 visits from Google search in October 2026, 98% more visits than in October 2025.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 198,270 times in September 2026, 142% more searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI coding agent sites get 85.5% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI coding agent site over the year: OpenCode, +6037% (6.9K to 426K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Tabby, -79% (5.7K to 1.2K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 4.7M visits, likely between 3.9M and 5.6M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 1 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI coding agent sites than a year ago?
Up 98% on a year ago; down 5% on September 2026
Yes. The 25 tracked AI coding agent sites got 4,714,416 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 98% more visits than in October 2025, and 5% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was July 2026, with 7,383,728 visits; October 2026 is 36% below it. In the US, visits were 402,357, down 11% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI coding agent sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
4.7M
+97.9% on a year ago
United States, this month
402K
-10.5% on a year ago
Two-year high
7.4M
July 2026
US share of visits
8.5%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
More visits than a year ago means new people are still finding AI coding agent sites through Google. Much of the growth is one site, though.
2.Are people searching for AI coding agent sites by name?
Up 142% on October 2025; 198K name searches a month in the US
Yes, more than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI coding agent sites 198,270 times in September 2026, 142% more searches than in October 2025. Someone who searches a site’s name already knows it, so this is the clearest sign of people coming back on purpose. The term “ai agents for coding” itself gets about 390 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI coding agent sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI coding agent sites by name, searches a month
OpenCode165K a month
Gemini CLI18.1K a month
Kilo Code4.4K a month
Gemini Code Assist3.6K a month
Qodo2.9K a month
Roo Code2.4K a month
Miles explains
Name searches are up 142%. This number does not change when Google reshuffles its results, so it is the most reliable sign of growth on this page.
3.Which AI coding agent sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 85.5% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 93.5%
The five most-visited AI coding agent sites get 85.5% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: OpenCode, from 6,940 to 425,930 visits (+6037%). Steepest fall: Tabby, from 5,736 to 1,197 visits (-79%).
Growing fastest, year on year
- OpenCode426K visits+6037%
Kiro117K visits+258%
CodeGPT65.3K visits+89%
Amp19.2K visits+52%
Falling fastest, year on year
Tabby1.2K visits-79%- Qodo24.9K visits-79%
Aider13.9K visits-78%
Jules72.8K visits-74%
Cline34.2K visits-47%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.