AI coding assistant statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 21 AI coding assistant sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google253Mvisits+49% vs a year ago
• Google searches60.5Ksearchesfor "ai coding assistant"
• Most visited site247MvisitsOpenAI Codex, 97% of all
• Expected in November257Mvisits+2% vs last month

• 253,405,410 Google visits went to the 21 AI coding assistant sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 49% more than a year earlier (about the same without OpenAI Codex).
• Flat: the AI coding assistant market is neither growing nor shrinking, but visits are up 36% over the last six months.
• 60,500 searches a month for “ai coding assistant” worldwide, 24% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 97% of all visits go to OpenAI Codex, the most-visited AI coding assistant; the five most-visited take 99.8%.
• 8.2% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Canada and Germany.
• 257,282,356 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 225M and 290M.

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 81M in November 2024 to a high of 253M in October 2026, and stand at 253M 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

-0.2%

Visits, last six months

+36%

Name searches, US

-15%

Busiest month (2 years)

October 2026, 253M 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 coding assistant market demand page

“ai coding assistant” is searched about 60,500 times a month worldwide, 24% of it in the US.

Google Trends barely registered “ai coding assistant” until June 2025; interest then climbed to its peak in May 2026. Americans make 24% of the searches but only 8.2% of the visits, because the big sites also draw heavily from India, Canada and Germany.

Searches a month, US

14,800

Google Trends now

12/100 -52%

Five-year peak

92/100 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 coding assistant 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 like growth.

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

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 coding assistant monthly analysis page

I expect November 2026 to be about the same as October 2026, and the next six months to look up.

The forecast carries the level of recent months forward, not the trend line, because that version missed least when tested on past months. November is usually a quieter month than average for searches, but the calendar did not improve the forecast, so it is left out.

Expected in November 2026

257,282,356 visits

Likely range

225M to 290M

Expected in May 2027

267M +5%

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 coding assistant monthly forecast page

The most visited is OpenAI Codex, with 247 million visits a month, 97% of all visits.

OpenAI Codex and Claude Code together hold 99% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 16 sites share 0.2%.

Top five sites

99.8% of all visits

Visits from the US

8.2%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Canada and Germany

Sites tracked

21

Miles explains

OpenAI Codex alone has 97% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI coding assistant 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 coding assistant”, 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 Coding Assistant Statistics, October 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-coding-assistant