How Many AI Coding Tools Are There in 2026?

How many AI coding tools are there?

Based on FalcoScan data updated 25 September 2026, there are 432 AI coding tools still operating in FalcoScan’s Coding market, the largest of the 29 markets it tracks. That counts every catalog entry filed under Coding that has not shut down or been acquired, and those entries come from 263 distinct websites, since some companies are listed more than once. Counting the 27 that have shut down and the three that were acquired, FalcoScan has tracked 462 coding products.

What counts as an AI coding tool on FalcoScan?

An AI coding tool here is a product listed in FalcoScan's catalog under its Coding market. Each product sits in exactly one market, so a coding agent that FalcoScan files under Agents is counted there, not here. FalcoScan counts catalog entries, and a company can have more than one: the 432 operating coding tools come from 263 distinct websites. The most entries at a single address is six, at pieces.app.

Operating means the product has not shut down and has not been acquired. Shut-down and acquired products stay in the tracked total and are counted separately, which is why the two headline numbers differ.

How does the coding market compare in size with other AI markets?

Coding holds 5.9% of the 7,276 operating products across all 29 markets. The next largest, AI Models, has 393.

What momentum do AI coding tools have?

AI coding tools are more likely than the average product to carry a hot momentum label. Of those with a label, 40% are marked hot and 39% rising, against 31% and 48% across the catalog. None is marked declining.

How are AI coding tools priced?

Paid-only products are rarer here than across the catalog. Of AI coding tools with a known pricing model, 25% are free, 65% freemium and 11% paid, against 8%, 49% and 43% across the catalog. In all, 88% of active AI coding tools are recorded as having a free tier.

How are the companies behind AI coding tools funded?

Growth-stage companies are behind the most AI coding tools: 26% of those with a known funding stage, against 18% across the catalog.

Funding stage of the company behind each active product, as a percentage of those with a known stage: 435 of 435 in Coding, 7,439 across the catalog. A snapshot of the current catalog. Source: FalcoScan catalog, data updated 25 September 2026.

How many AI coding tools have shut down?

Of the 462 coding products FalcoScan has tracked, 27 have shut down and three have been acquired. That is a shut-down rate of 5.8%, below the catalog’s 7.3%.

Every product FalcoScan has tracked in Coding (462) and in the whole catalog (8,031), by current status. Source: FalcoScan catalog, data updated 25 September 2026.

How crowded is the AI coding market?

Coding scores 44 out of 100 on saturation, the seventh highest of 29 markets, against a median of 33. Its average opportunity score is 61, below the median market’s 69. Wrapper share, the percentage of its tracked products scoring 60 or more on wrapper risk, is 27.3%, against 2.5% in the median market and 16.5% across all tracked products, a figure pulled up by the few markets where likely wrappers are common.

Saturation and opportunity are averages across the market's products. Wrapper share is the percentage of its tracked products scoring 60 or more on wrapper risk. The median market is the middle of the 29 markets on each measure. Source: FalcoScan catalog, data updated 25 September 2026.

For every market ranked on these measures, see the most competitive AI markets.

Which AI coding tools score highest on opportunity?

The operating AI coding tools with the highest opportunity scores, one row per website. Opportunity is a 0 to 100 score from FalcoScan's opportunity model, which weighs addressable demand, competitive saturation and differentiation; it does not measure revenue or users. Source: FalcoScan catalog, data updated 25 September 2026.

What stands out in the AI coding numbers?

Coding is both the biggest AI market FalcoScan tracks and a crowded one. No market has more operating products, and its saturation of 44 ranks seventh of 29.

Crowding has not meant more closures. Coding’s shut-down rate of 5.8% is below the catalog’s 7.3%.

Trying before buying is the norm. Of AI coding tools with a known pricing model, 89% are free or freemium, against 57% across the catalog.

Thin products are common. Wrapper share in Coding is 27.3%, against 2.5% in the median market: more than one in four of the coding products FalcoScan has tracked are likely a layer over someone else’s model, which makes them easier to copy.

What does the count mean for builders and investors?

If you are building a coding tool. The count tells you how many products a buyer could put next to yours, not how hard that comparison is. Saturation and wrapper share answer the second question, and the Coding market page lists every product with its own scores.

If you are sizing the field. Count websites as well as entries. The 432 operating entries come from 263 distinct websites, so the number of companies competing is closer to the second figure than the first.

How does FalcoScan count AI coding tools?

Every product in the catalog is filed under one market and carries a momentum label, a pricing model and, where known, the funding stage of the company behind it, plus an opportunity score, a saturation score and a wrapper risk score, each from 0 to 100. Market figures are recomputed from those scores every day. FalcoScan also checks whether each product is still running: a product counts as shut down once it is marked dead, and acquired products are counted separately. Distinct websites are counted by web domain, with subdomains counted under their parent, or by repository or listing for products hosted on GitHub, GitLab, Hugging Face or an app store. This page is rebuilt from the latest refresh, and the date at the top is the date of the data it used.

Where can you explore AI coding tools?

Every coding product is listed with its scores on the Coding market page, and the Market Terminal sets Coding against every other market. For the kinds of coding tool and how to pick between them, read our guide to choosing an AI coding tool, which uses data frozen on 16 September 2026, so its figures can differ from these. Coding agents filed under the Agents market are counted in how many AI agents there are. For pricing, funding and shut-downs across the whole catalog, see how AI prices itself, who funds AI, and at what stage and what died, and where it went; for thin products, the wrapper risk index. For what moved this week, see the Pulse, and for the products with the most momentum each month, the Rising 10.

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