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Updated 11/02/2026 · next update 12/01/2026

AI Code Editor Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year, without Visual Studio Code
-21%
Visits, last six months
-31%
Name searches vs October 2025
-3.9%

Every key number on the AI code editor market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 10 sites I measure got about 5.6 million visits from Google, 29% fewer than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 97.9% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for November 2026.

Published 2 November 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

AI code editor industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 10 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    5,574,089
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -29.0% year on year, -9.1% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    580,297
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -49.9% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    10.4%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    505,970
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -3.9% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    4,653,220
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -0.5% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai code editor”, US
    Value
    2,900
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai code editor”, worldwide
    Value
    12,100
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    200,748
    Period and basis
    October 2026 (7 of 10 sites measured); first reading, no year-on-year figure yet
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    97.9%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai code editor”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai code editor”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out Cursor, Kiro, Void and Zed: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got fewer visits from Google than a year ago (-29%), and October 2026 was a weaker month than September 2026 (-9%). Visual Studio Code, which takes 60% of all the visits, accounts for most of the fall (74% of it). Without it, visits would be down 21.1% on a year ago instead of down 29.0%.

WorldVisits a month to AI code editor sites, worldwide

02.5M5.0M7.5M10MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 265.6M
Low 4.1MHigh 9.2MAverage 7.2M
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Miles explains

Judge this line on the year, not the last dot: visits are 29% below a year ago, and 40% below the February 2026 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

3How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 4% less often than in October 2025 (-4%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

0250K500K750K1.0MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26506K
Low 449KHigh 717KAverage 553K
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are down 4%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows fewer people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 10 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 7 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

05101520Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2610.4
Low 10.4High 15.6Average 14
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    1,116,628
    Share of the measured countries
    68.7%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    139,625
    Share of the measured countries
    8.6%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    113,591
    Share of the measured countries
    7%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    92,173
    Share of the measured countries
    5.7%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    64,260
    Share of the measured countries
    4%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    63,672
    Share of the measured countries
    3.9%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    35,309
    Share of the measured countries
    2.2%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 10 in every 100 visits. India alone is 68.7% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

Visual Studio Code gets the most visits, Visual Studio Code is the name people search for most, and no tracked site ranks on Google for “ai code editor”. The five most-visited sites take 97.9% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

By US brand-name searches

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 97.9% of all visits. When one of them gains or loses a big ranking, the whole market total moves with it.

6Who grew and who shrank

The fastest grower in a year was Kiro (+258%); the steepest fall was at Wing Python IDE (-77%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • Kiro
    A year ago
    32,716
    Now
    117,185
    Change
    +258%
  • Trae
    A year ago
    51,963
    Now
    52,864
    Change
    +2%

Declining

  • Wing Python IDE
    A year ago
    7,737
    Now
    1,756
    Change
    -77%
  • Windsurf
    A year ago
    225,183
    Now
    52,791
    Change
    -77%
  • Void
    A year ago
    31,430
    Now
    8,699
    Change
    -72%
  • Zed
    A year ago
    124,539
    Now
    68,188
    Change
    -45%
  • Visual Studio Code
    A year ago
    5,025,436
    Now
    3,347,016
    Change
    -33%
  • Replit
    A year ago
    1,066,357
    Now
    834,220
    Change
    -22%
  • Cursor
    A year ago
    1,279,801
    Now
    1,089,064
    Change
    -15%

Worldwide search visits, October 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

To cite this report: RankDude, “AI Code Editor Industry Report, October 2026”, published 2 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-code-editor/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.