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

AI code editor market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The marketâ–Ľ Shrinking

Visits, year on year, without Visual Studio Code
-21%
Visits vs September 2026
-9.1%
Name searches vs October 2025
-3.9%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 10 AI code editor sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 5.6 million visits, 29% fewer than a year ago and 9% fewer than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 258% in a year), where the visitors live and what comes next.

Data from DataForSEO, Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Ahrefs · not a ranking

AI code editor market: the key numbers for October 2026

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

  • The tracked sites got 5,574,089 visits from Google in October 2026, 29% fewer than a year ago and 9% fewer than in September 2026. 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%.
  • “ai code editor” gets about 2,900 US searches a month. People searched the site names 505,970 times in the US in September 2026, 4% less often than in October 2025.
  • No tracked site ranks on Google for “ai code editor”. Visual Studio Code is the most-visited site.
  • 10.4% of visits came from the US (14.7% a year ago), then India, Brazil and Canada. The five most-visited sites took 97.9% of all visits.

1How many visits

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%.

Visits, October 2026
5,574,089 (-29.0% on a year ago, -9.1% on September 2026)
US visits
580,297 (-49.9% on a year ago)
24-month peak
9,230,865 in February 2026

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.

2How 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, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai code editor"
2,900 a month in the US, 12,100 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
505,970 in the US (-3.9% since October 2025), 4,653,220 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai code editor", United States

02.5K5.0K7.5K10.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 261.3K
Low 1.0KHigh 5.4KAverage 3.0K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

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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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Most searched by name, US

Ordered by US searches for the brand name in September 2026. A measured order, not a ranking.

Rising next to the term on Google Trends: “google code editor ai”.

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.

3Who is on Google's first page

No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai code editor”. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

Ordered by US Google position for “ai code editor”, then Tranco rank. A measured order, not a ranking.

Site

  • Visual Studio Code
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    560
    Move in 41 days
    â–Ľ 15
    Search visits
    3,347,016
  • Cursor
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,202
    Move in 41 days
    â–˛ 359
    Search visits
    1,089,064
  • Replit
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,670
    Move in 41 days
    â–Ľ 83
    Search visits
    834,220
  • Kiro
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    6,773
    Move in 41 days
    â–˛ 1,651
    Search visits
    117,185
  • Trae
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    12,660
    Move in 41 days
    â–Ľ 432
    Search visits
    52,864
  • Windsurf
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    14,245
    Move in 41 days
    â–˛ 385
    Search visits
    52,791
  • Zed
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    17,741
    Move in 41 days
    â–˛ 144
    Search visits
    68,188
  • Wing Python IDE
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    194,274
    Move in 41 days
    â–˛ 39,187
    Search visits
    1,756
  • Void
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,183,013
    Move in 41 days
    â–˛ 93,969
    Search visits
    8,699
  • PearAI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,877,347
    Move in 41 days
    â–˛ 39,566
    Search visits
    2,306

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 10 of 10 sites shown.

Miles explains

No tracked site sits high on Google for “ai code editor”, so most visits here come from people who already know the names.

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Kiro (+9%); biggest loss: Windsurf (-31%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

  • Kiro
    Sep 26
    108,028
    Oct 26
    117,185
    Change
    +8.5%
  • Cursor
    Sep 26
    1,014,254
    Oct 26
    1,089,064
    Change
    +7.4%
  • Void
    Sep 26
    8,554
    Oct 26
    8,699
    Change
    +1.7%

Down this month

  • Windsurf
    Sep 26
    76,971
    Oct 26
    52,791
    Change
    -31.4%
  • Replit
    Sep 26
    1,111,013
    Oct 26
    834,220
    Change
    -24.9%
  • Zed
    Sep 26
    84,038
    Oct 26
    68,188
    Change
    -18.9%
  • Trae
    Sep 26
    59,753
    Oct 26
    52,864
    Change
    -11.5%
  • Visual Studio Code
    Sep 26
    3,667,381
    Oct 26
    3,347,016
    Change
    -8.7%

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched less

  • Windsurf
    Oct 25
    60,500
    Sep 26
    40,500
    Change
    -33.1%

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 10 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
10.4% (14.7% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Brazil and Canada
US share of "ai code editor" searches
24%

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

6Links and ratings

The tracked sites had 200,748 referring domains between them in October 2026 (7 of the 10 sites measured); this is the first reading, so there is no year-on-year figure yet. The average Domain Rating is 75. Visual Studio Code has the strongest link profile at DR 92.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.