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

AI Coding Assistant Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market■ Neitherbut visits are up 36% over the last six months

Visits, year on year, without OpenAI Codex
-0.2%
Visits, last six months
+36%
Name searches vs October 2025
-15%

Every key number on the AI coding assistant market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 21 sites I measure got about 253 million visits from Google, 49% more than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 99.8% 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 coding assistant industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 21 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    253,405,410
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +49.0% year on year, +5.1% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    20,756,681
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +305.0% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    8.2%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    1,537,440
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -15.3% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    10,815,100
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -1.8% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai coding assistant”, US
    Value
    14,800
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai coding assistant”, worldwide
    Value
    60,500
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    640,791
    Period and basis
    October 2026 (9 of 21 sites measured); first reading, no year-on-year figure yet
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    99.8%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    99.9%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai coding assistant”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai coding assistant”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out Aider, Amp, Cline, Continue, Cursor, Kiro, OpenHands and Tabby: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+49%), and October 2026 was a better month than September 2026 (+5%). OpenAI Codex, which takes 97.4% of all the visits, accounts for most of the rise (100% of it). Without it, visits would be down 0.2% on a year ago instead of up 49.0%. OpenAI Codex made most of the move in October 2026: it gained 11,499,705 of the market's 12,184,575 visits; without it, visits to the other sites rose 11.6% on September 2026.

WorldVisits a month to AI coding assistant sites, worldwide

0125M250M375M500MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26253M
Low 81MHigh 253MAverage 160M
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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 49% above a year ago, and this is the highest month in two years. 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 15% less often than in October 2025 (-15%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

01.3M2.5M3.8M5.0MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 261.5M
Low 1.3MHigh 3.7MAverage 2.0M
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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 15%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows fewer people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 8 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 (%)

02.557.510Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 268.2
Low 2.9High 9.3Average 4
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    39,957,448
    Share of the measured countries
    79.4%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    4,212,861
    Share of the measured countries
    8.4%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    3,941,637
    Share of the measured countries
    7.8%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    814,830
    Share of the measured countries
    1.6%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    581,305
    Share of the measured countries
    1.2%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    452,752
    Share of the measured countries
    0.9%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    340,196
    Share of the measured countries
    0.7%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 8 in every 100 visits. India alone is 79.4% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

OpenAI Codex gets the most visits, OpenAI Codex is the name people search for most, and no tracked site ranks on Google for “ai coding assistant”. The five most-visited sites take 99.8% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

By US brand-name searches

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 99.8% 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 OpenCode (+6037%); the steepest fall was at Tabby (-79%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • OpenCode
    A year ago
    6,940
    Now
    425,930
    Change
    +6037%
  • Kiro
    A year ago
    32,716
    Now
    117,185
    Change
    +258%
  • CodeGPT
    A year ago
    34,620
    Now
    65,341
    Change
    +89%
  • Claude Code
    A year ago
    2,218,723
    Now
    3,678,556
    Change
    +66%
  • Amp
    A year ago
    12,636
    Now
    19,179
    Change
    +52%
  • OpenAI Codex
    A year ago
    163,434,191
    Now
    246,823,108
    Change
    +51%
  • CodeRabbit
    A year ago
    30,033
    Now
    45,214
    Change
    +51%

Declining

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 Coding Assistant Industry Report, October 2026”, published 2 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-coding-assistant/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.