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

AI coding tools market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The marketâ–Ľ Shrinkingbut visits are up 4.2% over the last six months

Visits, year on year, without OpenAI Codex
-5.6%
Visits vs September 2026
+4.4%
Name searches vs October 2025
-0.1%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 220 AI coding tools sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 510 million visits, 15% more than a year ago and 4% more than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 6037% in a year), where the visitors live and what comes next.

Data from DataForSEO, Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Ahrefs · not a ranking

AI coding tools market: the key numbers for October 2026

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

  • The tracked sites got 510,485,260 visits from Google in October 2026, 15% more than a year ago and 4% more than in September 2026. 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%.
  • Google Ads gives no search figure I can publish for “ai coding tools” this month. People searched the site names 35,413,260 times in the US in September 2026, about as often as in October 2025.
  • No tracked site ranks on Google for “ai coding tools”. OpenAI Codex is the most-visited site.
  • 9.5% of visits came from the US (6.2% a year ago), then India, Brazil and Canada. The five most-visited sites took 94.4% of all visits.

1How many visits

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%.

Visits, October 2026
510,485,260 (+15.3% on a year ago, +4.4% on September 2026)
US visits
48,423,067 (+77.5% on a year ago)
24-month peak
this month, 510,485,260

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.

2How 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, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai coding tools"
no figure this month
Name searches, September 2026
35,413,260 in the US (-0.1% since October 2025), 221,331,900 worldwide

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

013M25M38M50MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2635M
Low 16MHigh 37MAverage 31M
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Most searched by name, US

  • Canva
    Searches a month
    30,400,000
  • OpenAI Codex
    Searches a month
    1,000,000
  • Squarespace
    Searches a month
    673,000
  • Wix
    Searches a month
    550,000
  • Softr
    Searches a month
    450,000
  • Base44
    Searches a month
    368,000
  • Claude Code
    Searches a month
    301,000
  • Netlify
    Searches a month
    246,000

Ordered by US searches for the brand name in September 2026. A measured order, not a ranking.

Rising next to the term on Google Trends: “antigravity”, “ai coding tools merging” and “claude code”.

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.

3Who is on Google's first page

No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai coding tools”. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

Ordered by US Google position for “ai coding tools”, then Tranco rank. A measured order, not a ranking.

Site

  • OpenAI Codex
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    130
    Move in 40 days
    â–Ľ 48
    Search visits
    246,823,108
  • Claude Code
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    335
    Move in 40 days
    â–˛ 279
    Search visits
    3,678,556
  • Visual Studio Code
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    560
    Move in 40 days
    â–Ľ 15
    Search visits
    3,347,016
  • Squarespace
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    593
    Move in 40 days
    â–Ľ 49
    Search visits
    4,967,702
  • Wix
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    615
    Move in 40 days
    â–˛ 20
    Search visits
    4,656,286
  • JetBrains AI Assistant
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    955
    Move in 40 days
    â–Ľ 99
    Search visits
    912,380
  • Jimdo
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,193
    Move in 40 days
    â–Ľ 49
    Search visits
    320,984
  • Divi
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,948
    Move in 40 days
    â–Ľ 74
    Search visits
    183,032
  • Webflow
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    2,768
    Move in 40 days
    â–Ľ 4
    Search visits
    743,080
  • Vercel
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,055
    Move in 40 days
    â–˛ 81
    Search visits
    769,951
  • Cursor
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,226
    Move in 40 days
    â–˛ 335
    Search visits
    1,089,064
  • Replit
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,678
    Move in 40 days
    â–Ľ 91
    Search visits
    834,220
  • Lovable
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,694
    Move in 40 days
    â–Ľ 527
    Search visits
    716,740
  • Elementor
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,906
    Move in 40 days
    â–Ľ 90
    Search visits
    362,745
  • Gamma
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,927
    Move in 40 days
    â–˛ 76
    Search visits
    4,249,501

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 15 of 220 sites shown.

Miles explains

No tracked site sits high on Google for “ai coding tools”, so most visits here come from people who already know the names.

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: SITE123 (+324%); biggest loss: Zarla (-40%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

  • SITE123
    Sep 26
    158,140
    Oct 26
    670,184
    Change
    +323.8%
  • Scenario
    Sep 26
    34,520
    Oct 26
    60,463
    Change
    +75.2%
  • Blink
    Sep 26
    57,345
    Oct 26
    91,817
    Change
    +60.1%
  • Qodo
    Sep 26
    16,115
    Oct 26
    24,940
    Change
    +54.8%
  • Fly.io
    Sep 26
    17,946
    Oct 26
    27,337
    Change
    +52.3%
  • Gemini Code Assist
    Sep 26
    37,835
    Oct 26
    56,262
    Change
    +48.7%

Down this month

  • Zarla
    Sep 26
    9,716
    Oct 26
    5,818
    Change
    -40.1%
  • Back4app
    Sep 26
    126,171
    Oct 26
    76,417
    Change
    -39.4%
  • Sculptor
    Sep 26
    7,438
    Oct 26
    4,915
    Change
    -33.9%
  • WebWave
    Sep 26
    15,041
    Oct 26
    10,016
    Change
    -33.4%
  • Windsurf
    Sep 26
    76,971
    Oct 26
    52,791
    Change
    -31.4%
  • Appsmith
    Sep 26
    35,755
    Oct 26
    25,409
    Change
    -28.9%

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

  • OpenCode
    Oct 25
    18,100
    Sep 26
    165,000
    Change
    +811.6%
  • Zite
    Oct 25
    1,300
    Sep 26
    6,600
    Change
    +407.7%
  • Astrocade
    Oct 25
    1,900
    Sep 26
    8,100
    Change
    +326.3%
  • v0 by Vercel
    Oct 25
    1,300
    Sep 26
    3,600
    Change
    +176.9%
  • Netlify
    Oct 25
    90,500
    Sep 26
    246,000
    Change
    +171.8%
  • Modal
    Oct 25
    1,600
    Sep 26
    3,600
    Change
    +125.0%

Searched less

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 10 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
9.5% (6.2% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Brazil and Canada

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

6Links and ratings

Other websites link to these sites more than a year ago (+18%).

The tracked sites had 6,674,247 referring domains between them in October 2026 (195 of the 220 sites measured), +17.5% year on year. The average Domain Rating is 65. Squarespace has the strongest link profile at DR 96.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.