AI code generator statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 29 AI code generator sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google251Mvisits+50% vs a year ago
• Google searches14.8Ksearchesfor "ai code generator"
• Most visited site247MvisitsOpenAI Codex, 98% of all
• Expected in November263Mvisits+5% vs last month

• 251,034,270 Google visits went to the 29 AI code generator sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 50% more than a year earlier (about the same without OpenAI Codex).
• Flat: the AI code generator market is neither growing nor shrinking, but visits are up 36% over the last six months.
• 14,800 searches a month for “ai code generator” worldwide, 24% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 98% of all visits go to OpenAI Codex, the most-visited AI code generator; the five most-visited take 99.5%.
• 8% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Canada and Germany.
• 263,033,362 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 229M and 297M.

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

Neither growing nor shrinking, but visits are up 36% over the last six months.

Over two years, visits went from 80M in November 2024 to a high of 251M in October 2026, and stand at 251M in October 2026. Much of the year’s change is one site, OpenAI Codex, which is why I also look at the market without it.

Visits, year on year

+2%

Visits, last six months

+36%

Name searches, US

-21%

Busiest month (2 years)

October 2026, 251M visits

Miles explains

I only call a market growing when visits and name searches agree. Here visits are level and name searches are down, so they don’t agree yet.

Open the AI code generator market demand page

“ai code generator” is searched about 14,800 times a month worldwide, 24% of it in the US.

Google Trends barely registered “ai code generator” until April 2023; interest then climbed to its peak in May 2026. Americans make 24% of the searches but only 8% of the visits, because the big sites also draw heavily from India, Canada and Germany.

Searches a month, US

3,600

Google Trends now

12/100 -77%

Five-year peak

59/100 in May 2026

Miles explains

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

Open the AI code generator search trends page

More visits than a year ago only because of OpenAI Codex, but fewer people searching by name, and the next six months look uneven, up and then down.

The fastest growers over the year, OpenCode, Kiro and Lovable, each grew several times over, usually from a small base. The losers, led by v0 by Vercel, lost most of their search visits (-93%).

Visits vs September 2026

+5%

Biggest gain this month

Amp +23%

Biggest loss this month

Windsurf -31%

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.

Open the AI code generator monthly analysis page

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

The forecast carries the level of recent months forward with the seasonal pattern, because that version missed least when tested on past months. November is usually a busier month than average for searches.

Expected in November 2026

263,033,362 visits

Likely range

229M to 297M

Expected in May 2027

258M +3%

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.

Open the AI code generator monthly forecast page

The most visited is OpenAI Codex, with 247 million visits a month, 98% of all visits.

OpenAI Codex and Cursor together hold 99% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 24 sites share 0.5%.

Top five sites

99.5% of all visits

Visits from the US

8%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Canada and Germany

Sites tracked

29

Miles explains

OpenAI Codex alone has 98% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI code generator industry report page

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

sites.csv has one row per site: its Google US position for “ai code generator”, Tranco rank, Chrome UX tier, visits from Google worldwide and in the US, name searches, Domain Rating and referring domains, with the month each figure covers. market.csv has the monthly totals across the tracked sites: visits worldwide and in the US, name searches and referring domains. Blanks mean the source had no figure, never zero.

Cite as: Miles Foster, “AI Code Generator Statistics, October 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-code-generator