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

AI Coding Tools Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinkingbut visits are up 4.2% over the last six months

Visits, year on year, without OpenAI Codex
-5.6%
Visits, last six months
+4.2%
Name searches vs October 2025
-0.1%

Every key number on the AI coding tools market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 220 sites I measure got about 510 million visits from Google, 15% more than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 94.4% 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 tools industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 220 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    510,485,260
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +15.3% year on year, +4.4% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    48,423,067
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +77.5% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    9.5%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    35,413,260
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -0.1% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    221,331,900
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -15.2% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai coding tools”, US
    Value
    –
    Period and basis
    not published this month; see the note under the table
  • Searches a month for “ai coding tools”, worldwide
    Value
    –
    Period and basis
    not published this month; see the note under the table
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    6,674,247
    Period and basis
    October 2026 (195 of 220 sites measured); +17.5% year on year
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    94.4%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    96.8%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai coding tools”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai coding tools”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

Google Ads put US searches for "ai coding tools" more than five times higher in May 2026 than in the months before, while Google Trends interest in the US in May 2026 was 75 out of 100, against 76 in April 2026, so the term's search volume is held back on these pages until a later pull confirms it.

Brand-name searches leave out Aider, Amp, Antigravity, Cline, Continue, Cursor, Devin, Jules, Kiro, OpenHands, Pi, Sculptor, Tabby, Warp, ZCode, Zed, Genex, Sorceress, Spawn, Star, Tesana, Telex and Void: 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 (+15%), and October 2026 was a better month than September 2026 (+4%). OpenAI Codex, which takes 48.4% of all the visits, gained more visits on its own than the whole market gained in a year. Without it, visits would be down 5.6% on a year ago instead of up 15.3%.

WorldVisits a month to AI coding tools sites, worldwide

0250M500M750M1000MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26510M
Low 225MHigh 510MAverage 425M
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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 15% 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 about as often as in October 2025 (-0.1%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

013M25M38M50MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2635M
Low 16MHigh 37MAverage 31M
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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 about level, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows more people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 10 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 269.5
Low 4.6High 9.5Average 7
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    82,143,301
    Share of the measured countries
    66.3%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    15,933,645
    Share of the measured countries
    12.9%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    9,226,701
    Share of the measured countries
    7.4%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    6,510,690
    Share of the measured countries
    5.3%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    4,682,960
    Share of the measured countries
    3.8%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    3,212,455
    Share of the measured countries
    2.6%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    2,246,565
    Share of the measured countries
    1.8%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 10 in every 100 visits. India alone is 66.3% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

OpenAI Codex gets the most visits, Canva is the name people search for most, and no tracked site ranks on Google for “ai coding tools”. The five most-visited sites take 94.4% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

By US brand-name searches

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 94.4% 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 v0 by Vercel (-93%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • OpenCode
    A year ago
    6,940
    Now
    425,930
    Change
    +6037%
  • Base44
    A year ago
    16,019
    Now
    386,562
    Change
    +2313%
  • Emergent
    A year ago
    22,581
    Now
    195,946
    Change
    +768%
  • SITE123
    A year ago
    82,647
    Now
    670,184
    Change
    +711%
  • Kiro
    A year ago
    32,716
    Now
    117,185
    Change
    +258%
  • Lovable
    A year ago
    211,379
    Now
    716,740
    Change
    +239%
  • WeWeb
    A year ago
    17,172
    Now
    49,675
    Change
    +189%
  • Northflank
    A year ago
    12,826
    Now
    28,690
    Change
    +124%

Declining

  • v0 by Vercel
    A year ago
    60,422
    Now
    4,265
    Change
    -93%
  • Zarla
    A year ago
    63,726
    Now
    5,818
    Change
    -91%
  • Budibase
    A year ago
    46,841
    Now
    6,432
    Change
    -86%
  • Kaedim
    A year ago
    17,557
    Now
    2,696
    Change
    -85%
  • Same
    A year ago
    22,887
    Now
    4,375
    Change
    -81%
  • Typedream
    A year ago
    10,316
    Now
    2,065
    Change
    -80%
  • Tabby
    A year ago
    5,736
    Now
    1,197
    Change
    -79%
  • Qodo
    A year ago
    118,965
    Now
    24,940
    Change
    -79%

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