Daily install trends of AI coding extensions in VS Code

In plain words

This interactive dashboard displays four years of daily install data for over 20 AI coding extensions in Visual Studio Code, including GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex. Users can view individual tools or overlay multiple extensions to compare trends, and see how major events like pricing changes and releases affected installation rates. The dashboard tracks VS Code marketplace extensions only, not CLI usage or other IDEs, and includes a separate chart tracking Cursor's forum activity as a growth indicator since Cursor operates as a standalone editor rather than a marketplace extension.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

This dashboard shows the 30-day moving average of daily install counts of major AI coding tools in Visual Studio Code. Data was taken by tracking the install counts from the Visual Studio Marketplace everyday since 2022. This is charting *daily* installs, NOT total. This dashboard shows the 30-day moving average of daily discussion posts about Cursor in their support forum . Data was taken from calling the Discourse API to get all posts from the past tofrom bloomberry.com

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For the past 4 years, I've been tracking the install counts of AI coding extensions in the Visual Studio Code marketplace (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, etc.) Today, I built an interactive dashboard that lets you see daily install counts for any of them over time. The chart shows GitHub Copilot by…

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