Data Report

AI Coding Tool Adoption Index

16 AI coding tools · 1,675 educators · ranked by YouTube teaching coverage

Updated October 1, 2026

Among 1,675 YouTube educators who teach AI coding tools, Claude Code is the most widely taught (858 educators), followed by Cursor AI (581) and GitHub Copilot (461). Cursor AI tutorials have the most views (97.4M across tracked videos), while OpenAI Codex is the fastest-rising — 79% of its tutorials were published in the last six months. Based on 16 AI coding tools tracked by Developer Educators as of October 1, 2026.

Claude CodeMost taught
Cursor AIMost watched
OpenAI CodexFastest rising
1,675Educators tracked

The ranking

Ranked by the number of distinct YouTube educators who teach each tool. The Adoption Index scales that count so the leader = 100.

#ToolIndexEducatorsTutorialsViewsRecent
1 Claude Code 100
858
200 55.8M 52%
2 Cursor AI 68
581
200 97.4M 24%
3 GitHub Copilot 54
461
200 15.5M 30%
4 OpenAI Codex 50
433
200 45.6M 79%
5 Lovable 27
229
200 8.6M 22%
6 Replit AI 18
151
200 20.5M 40%
7 Claude Cowork 17
150
200 9.8M 56%
8 v0 by Vercel 12
101
200 3.5M 21%
9 Windsurf 10
83
169 1.3M 8%
10 Bolt.new 6
49
200 3.0M 38%
11 Cline 5
46
126 1.4M 37%
12 Codeium 1
12
18 57.1K 0%
13 Roo Code 1
12
44 187.4K 5%
14 Aider 1
9
30 239.1K 7%
15 Blackbox AI 1
7
17 41.9K 29%
16 Qodo 1
5
39 161.4K 44%

"Recent" = share of a tool's tracked tutorials published in the last six months. Highlighted values (≥70%) mark tools whose coverage is overwhelmingly new.

Fastest rising

Among widely-taught tools (20+ educators), these have the largest share of brand-new tutorials — a leading indicator of where educator attention is moving.

  1. OpenAI Codex 79% of tutorials from the last 6 months · 433 educators
  2. Claude Cowork 56% of tutorials from the last 6 months · 150 educators
  3. Claude Code 52% of tutorials from the last 6 months · 858 educators
  4. Replit AI 40% of tutorials from the last 6 months · 151 educators
  5. Bolt.new 38% of tutorials from the last 6 months · 49 educators

Methodology

The index is computed from Developer Educators' own dataset of 7,365 developer-education YouTube channels and their videos, refreshed on every site rebuild.

  • Educators — the count of distinct channels that teach a tool, detected from video titles and descriptions. This is the primary signal and is not capped.
  • Adoption Index — that educator count scaled so the most-taught tool equals 100. No hidden weighting; views and momentum are reported separately, not folded in.
  • Tutorials & Views — counts and total view counts across the videos we track per tool (a sample of top videos), so treat them as relative, not exhaustive totals.
  • Recent — the share of a tool's tracked tutorials published in the last six months.
  • Tools below 5 educators are excluded as too thin to rank fairly.

Data as of October 1, 2026. Because educator adoption often precedes mainstream adoption, this ranking is a leading indicator of which AI coding tools developers will encounter next.

Questions

Which AI coding tool do YouTube educators teach the most?

Claude Code is the most-taught AI coding tool, covered by 858 distinct educators — ahead of Cursor AI (581) and GitHub Copilot (461).

Which AI coding tool has the most YouTube tutorial views?

Cursor AI has the most tutorial views, with 97.4M across the videos we track.

Which AI coding tool is growing fastest on YouTube?

OpenAI Codex is rising fastest: 79% of its tracked tutorials were published in the last six months, the highest share among widely-taught tools.

How is the Adoption Index calculated?

The index counts the number of distinct YouTube educators who teach each tool, then scales it so the most-taught tool equals 100. Views and momentum are reported separately and are not blended into the score.