AI coding assistant search trends
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
Search interest▼ Fallingand 87% below its May 2026 peak
- Google Trends, year on year
- -52%
- US searches vs October 2025
- -87%
- From the five-year peak
- -87%
This page follows one Google search, “ai coding assistant”, over five years. Interest is 52% lower than a year ago, 87% below its peak in May 2026.
Below: the five-year chart, searches month by month, country by country and the searches people make around it.
Google Trends via DataForSEO (pulled 2 November 2026); search volume and visits via DataForSEO · not a ranking
AI coding assistant search trends: the key numbers for October 2026
The numbers that sum up searches for “ai coding assistant”. Tap one for the detail below.
Interest in “ai coding assistant” is down 52% on a year ago: 12 out of 100 on Google Trends in October 2026, against 25 a year earlier. The five-year peak was 92, in May 2026.
People search for it about 60,500 times a month worldwide, 14,800 of them in the US (25%). In September 2026, US searches were 2,900, 87% fewer than in October 2025.
8.2% of visits to the tracked AI coding assistant sites come from the US, up from 3% a year ago. India, Canada and Germany come next.
Five years of interest, worldwide and in the US
WorldGoogle Trends interest, worldwide (0–100)
Source: Google Trends, 100 = peak week.
USGoogle Trends interest, United States (0–100)
United States only, same scale.
Miles explains
Here’s how I read these two lines. They don’t show how many people search, only when interest rose and fell. Worldwide, it peaked in May 2026 and sits at 12 now, lower than a year ago. In the US it’s level with or above a year ago. When you see a sharp spike, think news story, not new customers. The baseline between the spikes is the demand I actually care about.
What the term is worth, month by month
USSearches a month for "ai coding assistant", United States
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.
WorldSearches a month for "ai coding assistant", worldwide
Worldwide, same source.
Miles explains
This is the number I’d plan with: September 2026 had 2,900 US searches, 87% fewer than in October 2025. Google Ads rounds these figures into steps, so a small move from one month to the next usually means nothing.
The US against 9 other countries
Searches a month for “ai coding assistant” in each country with a Google Ads figure, twelve-month average; countries with none are left out. The United States is 24.5% of the worldwide figure; the next 3 countries together are 49.8%.
- India22,200
- United States14,800
- Philippines6,600
- Canada1,300
- Australia1,000
- United Kingdom210
- Germany140
- France110
- Netherlands70
- Brazil50
Miles explains
The top five countries are India, United States, Philippines, Canada and Australia. Worldwide, people search for it about 4.1 times as often as in the US alone, so roughly 75.5% of the searches happen outside the US.
The searches around the term
| Search | US / month | Worldwide / month | US share |
|---|---|---|---|
| “ai coding assistant” | 14,800 | 60,500 | 24% |
| “best ai coding assistant” | 720 | 1,900 | 38% |
| “free ai coding assistant” | 260 | 880 | 30% |
| “ai coding assistant online” | 10 | 20 | 50% |
| “ai code assistant” | 14,800 | 60,500 | 24% |
| “ai code completion” | 90 | 260 | 35% |
| “best free ai coding assistant” | 110 | 320 | 34% |
Search
- “ai coding assistant”
- US / month
- 14,800
- Worldwide / month
- 60,500
- US share
- 24%
- “best ai coding assistant”
- US / month
- 720
- Worldwide / month
- 1,900
- US share
- 38%
- “free ai coding assistant”
- US / month
- 260
- Worldwide / month
- 880
- US share
- 30%
- “ai coding assistant online”
- US / month
- 10
- Worldwide / month
- 20
- US share
- 50%
- “ai code assistant”
- US / month
- 14,800
- Worldwide / month
- 60,500
- US share
- 24%
- “ai code completion”
- US / month
- 90
- Worldwide / month
- 260
- US share
- 35%
- “best free ai coding assistant”
- US / month
- 110
- Worldwide / month
- 320
- US share
- 34%
Source: Google Ads, 12-month averages. A dash means no volume reported.
Miles explains
The biggest related search is “ai code assistant”, at 60,500 searches a month worldwide. Rising fastest next to it on Google Trends: “opencode”, “claude code assistant” and “claude code”. A sudden riser is usually news, not lasting demand.
Where the visitors to the tracked sites come from
USShare of visits that come from the US (%)
US share of worldwide search visits to all tracked sites, month by month, DataForSEO estimates.
WorldVisits a month from outside the US
Visits from outside the US a month, all tracked sites.
- India79.4%39,957,448
- Canada8.4%4,212,861
- Germany7.8%3,941,637
- Brazil1.6%814,830
- United Kingdom1.2%581,305
- France0.9%452,752
- Australia0.7%340,196
Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.