Given the hype around AI Copilots and startups forking VS Code to add their AI Copilots and Agents, I thought it would be interesting to look at the some revenue data for code editors and AI Copilots.
Estimated 2024 revenue per November 2024
JetBrains: $593M GitHub Copilot: $400M Cursor: $65M Bolt: $20M Codeium: $10M VS Code: $0 Sublime Text: ? Zed: ? v0: ?
Historic revenue ($USD)
| | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |----------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|----------| | JetBrains | $384M | $480M | $532M | $562M | $593M | | GitHub Copilot | | | | $115M | $400M | | Cursor | | | | $1M | $65M | | Bolt.new | | | | $0M | $20M [2] | | Codeium | | | | $0M | $10M | | Sublime Text | | | | | $6M [1] | | Zed | | | | | | | v0 by Vercel | | | | | |
Note on sources and data accuracy
Most of this data comes from Sacra [0] with a few additional sources. The data may be incomplete or inaccurate, so if you read this and have better sources, please let me know, so I can update this.