The worldwide market for low-code development technologies was projected to total $26.9 billion ($26,869 million) in 2023, an increase of 19.6% from 2022, according to Gartner. Gartner counts no-code platforms inside the low-code application platform (LCAP) market, defining a no-code application platform as an LCAP that only requires text entry for formulae or simple expressions. The no-code platform statistics below therefore draw on low-code market data, user counts and builder surveys.
Adoption now shows up in user counts and agent building. Microsoft reported 56 million monthly active Power Platform users on April 30, 2025, up 27% year over year, and nearly 90% of the Fortune 500 had active agents built with its low-code/no-code tools as of its April 29, 2026 earnings call. Lovable says people have created more than 60 million projects since its November 2024 launch. Older analyst forecasts below carry their publication dates.
Key Takeaways
- Gartner predicts that by 2026, developers outside formal IT departments will account for at least 80% of the user base for low-code development tools, up from 60% in 2021.
- Over 80% of the Fortune 500 had active agents built with Microsoft’s Copilot Studio and Agent Builder low-code/no-code tools in January 2026, rising to nearly 90% by April 2026; these counts cover active agents, unlike the April 2025 figure of 90%, which counted Fortune 500 companies that had already used Copilot Studio.
- Pega Cloud Annual Contract Value (ACV) rose 22% year over year in Q2 2026 while total ACV grew 7%, and Pega says unprecedented changes in the AI market caused clients to delay their purchasing decisions.
- In Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey, 72% of respondents were not vibe coding, and an additional 5% were emphatic that it was not part of their development workflow.
- Among 793 Bubble builders surveyed, 71.5% felt confident using visual development for mission-critical applications, compared with 32.5% for vibe coding.
- Forrester expects the combined low-code and digital process automation (DPA) market to reach approximately $30 billion in 2028, with an AI-fueled upside case of $50 billion.
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- Low-code market forecast, 2024: $31,949 million in worldwide low-code development technologies revenue, per Gartner.
- Power Platform monthly active users: 56 million, up 27% year over year, on Microsoft’s April 30, 2025 call.
- Organizations that have used Copilot Studio: more than 230,000, including 90% of the Fortune 500, as of April 2025.
- Lovable valuation: $13.3 billion after a $400 million Series C.
- Wix revenue, Q2 2026: $563.1 million, up 15% year over year, with Wix citing strong Base44 performance.
- GitHub Copilot users: 50 million, per Microsoft’s July 29, 2026 earnings call.
No-Code Platform Statistics on Low-Code Market Size
- Gartner projected worldwide low-code development technologies revenue of $26,869 million for 2023, up from $22,462 million in 2022.
- Low-code application platforms were projected to be the largest component, growing 25% to reach nearly $10 billion ($9,960 million in Gartner’s revenue table) in 2023.
- Gartner names a rise in business technologists and a growing number of enterprise-wide hyperautomation and composable business initiatives as the key drivers of low-code adoption through 2026.
- Gartner notes that being no-code is not a sufficient criterion for tasks like citizen development, since many complex tooling configuration tasks are no-code but still require specialist skills.
| Year | Worldwide low-code revenue ($ millions) |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 18,497 |
| 2022 | 22,462 |
| 2023 | 26,869 |
| 2024 | 31,949 |
Source: Gartner (December 2022)
About This Data
Figures are compiled from 22 sources: 16 company filings, earnings calls and announcements, 3 analyst firm releases from Gartner and Forrester, and 3 developer and builder surveys from Stack Overflow and Bubble. They were published between February 2021 and August 2026. Only figures published by the company, analyst firm, or survey owner qualified, and forecasts older than 12 months carry their publication date. Figures are reviewed on a rolling basis and updated when sources publish new editions.
Low-Code Market Revenue by Segment
- Low-code application platforms formed the largest segment in Gartner’s forecast, at $12,351 million for 2024.
- Citizen automation and development platforms (CADP) were projected to grow at the fastest pace, with a 30.2% growth forecast for 2023.
- Typical CADP use cases include automating workflows, building web-based forms, bridging data and content across multiple software-as-a-service applications, and creating reports and data visualizations.
- Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) was forecast at $7,838 million for 2024.
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Recent Developments
- August 12, 2026: Lovable raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and co-led by the Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT.
- August 6, 2026: Appian reported second-quarter cloud subscriptions revenue of $131.7 million, up 23%, and total revenue of $203.3 million, up 19%.
- August 4, 2026: Wix said Base44 became the first app-creation platform to launch a proprietary model, Base 1, and now expects Base44 non-GAAP gross margin of approximately 60% in the second half of the year.
- July 29, 2026: Microsoft said GitHub Copilot had 50 million users and GitHub had 225 million users.
- July 21, 2026: Pega reported that its ACV growth rate significantly slowed during the six months ended June 30, 2026, as unprecedented changes in the AI market caused clients to delay their purchasing decisions.
Low-Code Segment Growth Trends
- LCAP revenue was forecast to grow about 1.95 times, from $6,324 million in 2021 to $12,351 million in 2024.
- Robotic process automation was forecast at $3,879 million in 2024, up from $2,350 million in 2021.
- Business process automation was forecast to rise from $2,416 million in 2021 to $2,940 million in 2024.
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Low-Code Market Growth Since 2019
- Gartner’s earlier forecast put the worldwide low-code development technologies market at $13.8 billion in 2021 ($13,824.2 million in its revenue table), an increase of 22.6% from 2020.
- LCAP revenue was expected to increase nearly 30% from 2020 to reach $5,751.6 million in 2021.
- Gartner said the surge in remote development during the COVID-19 pandemic would continue to boost low-code adoption, despite ongoing cost optimization efforts.
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The earlier forecast lists intelligent business process management suites as a segment, while the later one lists integration platform as a service and business process automation. Because the segment lists differ, the two forecasts work as separate series rather than one continuous trend line.
Forrester Low-Code Market Forecast to 2028
- Forrester estimates the combined low-code and DPA market reached $13.2 billion by the end of 2023, after analyzing relevant data from over 100 vendors.
- That represents a growth rate of roughly 21% since 2019.
- Forrester expects citizen development to sustain a 21% growth rate for the next five years, growing the market to approximately $30 billion in 2028.
- Forrester’s AI-fueled upside case for 2028 draws on its estimate that the generative AI market will grow 36% annually for the rest of the decade.
| Scenario | Market size | Growth rate |
|---|---|---|
| End of 2023 (estimate) | $13.2 billion | roughly 21% since 2019 |
| 2028 base case | approximately $30 billion | 21% a year |
| 2028 AI-fueled upside | $50 billion | 33% annual growth |
Source: Forrester (January 2024)
Key finding: Forrester credits past growth to the institutionalization of low-code in IT, where 87% of enterprise developers use low-code development platforms for at least some of their development work. The next leg of growth depends on a different buyer: employees outside IT who ship their own apps.
Microsoft Power Platform User Statistics
- Microsoft calls Power Platform the leading low-code platform for AI makers, with 56 million monthly active users as of April 30, 2025.
- Organizations that used AI-powered capabilities in Power Platform grew from more than 36,000 in fiscal 2023’s third quarter to over 330,000 in fiscal 2024’s third quarter.
- That count passed over 480,000 by July 30, 2024, and reached nearly 600,000 by October 30, 2024, up 4x year over year.
- Over half of the Fortune 100 had used AI-powered capabilities in Power Platform by fiscal 2024’s third quarter.
| Period | Product | Monthly active users | Year-over-year change |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY23 Q3 | Power Platform | nearly 33 million | up nearly 50% |
| FY24 Q1 | Power Apps | 20 million | up 40% |
| FY24 Q3 | Power Apps | over 25 million | up over 40% |
| FY24 Q4 (July 2024) | Power Platform | 48 million | up 40% |
| FY25 Q3 (April 2025) | Power Platform | 56 million | up 27% |
Source: Microsoft earnings calls, fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2025
Power Platform user counts appear only on some of Microsoft’s earnings calls, which is why the series has gaps, while the wider Microsoft revenue and segment data arrives every quarter.
Low-Code AI Agent Adoption Statistics
- More than 230,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, had used Copilot Studio by April 30, 2025.
- Customers created over 1 million custom agents across SharePoint and Copilot Studio in that quarter alone, up 130% quarter over quarter.
- Microsoft said customers created 3 million agents using SharePoint and Copilot Studio in fiscal 2025.
- Microsoft’s Copilot Credit consumption offer grew nearly 2x quarter over quarter by April 29, 2026.
| Period | Organizations that have used Copilot Studio |
|---|---|
| FY24 Q3 | 30,000 |
| FY24 Q4 (July 2024) | 50,000 |
| FY25 Q1 (October 2024) | more than 100,000 |
| FY25 Q2 (January 2025) | more than 160,000 |
| FY25 Q3 (April 2025) | more than 230,000 |
Source: Microsoft earnings calls, fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025
Copilot Studio is a no-code/low-code agent builder, so Copilot adoption data and low-code figures overlap. Wider AI agent adoption figures track the same shift outside Microsoft’s tools.
Low-Code Vendor Revenue Statistics
- Appian’s total revenue grew 19% year over year to $203.3 million in Q2 2026.
- Appian’s cloud net annualized recurring revenue (ARR) expansion was 115% as of June 30, 2026.
- Appian expects full-year 2026 cloud subscriptions revenue between $525.0 million and $529.0 million, year-over-year growth of 20% to 21%.
- Wix’s total ARR was $1.963 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2026, up 15% year over year.
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Pega Cloud Revenue Statistics
- Pega Cloud revenue reached $213.9 million in the three months ended June 30, 2026, 51% of total revenue and up 28% from $166.7 million.
- Pega’s total revenue rose 9% to $420.7 million in the quarter.
- Consulting revenue fell 13% to $50.2 million.
- Pega warned that these factors may continue to adversely affect its ACV growth rate for the rest of the year.
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Why it matters: Pega Cloud ACV rose 22% year over year while total ACV grew 7% (8% in constant currency) in Q2 2026. Incumbent low-code vendors are moving revenue to the cloud, yet Pega says AI market changes led some clients to delay purchases, which leaves an opening for AI-native builders with first-time buyers.
AI App Builder Statistics
- Lovable-built apps see over 900 million visits every month.
- Lovable reached employees at half of the Fortune 500 within its first year, and that figure has since grown to nearly two-thirds.
- Wix’s Creative Subscriptions revenue was $398.4 million in the second quarter of 2026, up 15% year over year.
- Wix expects Base44 to reach approximately 60% non-GAAP gross margin in the second half, up from near-zero entering the year.
| Metric | Figure |
|---|---|
| Lovable Series C funding | $400 million |
| Lovable valuation after Series C | $13.3 billion |
| Projects created on Lovable since its November 2024 launch | more than 60 million |
| Monthly visits to Lovable-built apps | over 900 million |
| Base44 expected non-GAAP gross margin, second half of 2026 | approximately 60% |
Source: Lovable (August 2026), Wix Q2 2026 results
AI app builders target people who never open a code editor, while AI coding editors such as Cursor sell to developers who already do.
Developer Attitudes Toward AI and Vibe Coding
- Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey drew over 49,000 responses from 177 countries.
- 46% of developers said they don’t trust the accuracy of the output from AI tools, up from 31% the year before, even as 84% said they use or plan to use AI tools, up from 76% in 2024.
- Nearly 77% said vibe coding is not part of their professional development work.
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Distrust rose even as use climbed, and agents trail general AI tools by a wide margin. Only 31% of developers use AI agents, and 38% have no plans to, yet 69% of those who have used agents at work report a productivity increase.
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Microsoft said GitHub Copilot had 50 million users by July 29, 2026. Distrust has not stopped adoption, and both GitHub usage data and the wider AI coding adoption figures show the same split between use and trust.
Visual Development vs Vibe Coding Statistics
- Bubble surveyed 793 current and former Bubble builders who had explored both visual development and vibe coding tools.
- Only 9% deploy vibe coding tools for business-critical applications, while 65.2% use visual development for the majority of their production apps.
- 72.3% of builders worry about security vulnerabilities in vibe coding platforms.
- 52.8% rate visual development as the most secure approach, more than traditional coding at 22.7% or vibe coding at 12.6%.
- 71.5% of builders feel confident using visual development for mission-critical applications, compared with 32.5% for vibe coding, and 86.7% would recommend visual development to new entrepreneurs, against 51.4% for vibe coding.
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What is a key advantage of a no-code platform?
Speed stands out in Bubble’s survey: combined, 77.4% of builders report 3X or greater productivity gains with visual development. For vibe coding, 22% of Bubble builders reported productivity about the same as traditional coding. The respondents are Bubble’s own users, so the results favor its approach.
Citizen Developer Statistics
- Gartner research says, on average, 41% of employees outside of IT, or business technologists, customize or build data or technology solutions.
- Gartner predicted that half of all new low-code clients would come from business buyers outside the IT organization by year-end 2025.
- Gartner expected most large organizations to have adopted multiple low-code tools in some form by year-end 2021.
- Gartner’s Jason Wong says business technologists and citizen technologist personas are developing lightweight solutions to meet business unit needs, often as fusion teams.
| Metric | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Low-code user base outside formal IT, 2021 | 60% | Gartner |
| Low-code user base outside formal IT, 2026 prediction | at least 80% | Gartner |
| Employees outside IT who customize or build tech solutions | 41% | Gartner |
| Enterprise developers using low-code for some work | 87% | Forrester |
| Lovable user survey: building a business or side project | nearly 8 in 10 | Lovable user survey |
Source: Gartner (February 2021, December 2022), Forrester (January 2024), Lovable user survey (August 2026)
The takeaway: Gartner predicts developers outside formal IT departments will make up at least 80% of the user base for low-code development tools by 2026, up from 60% in 2021. If that holds, most low-code users will sit outside formal IT, which fits the push toward natural-language building.
What is the most popular no-code platform?
Microsoft describes Power Platform as the leading low-code platform for AI makers, citing 56 million monthly active users in April 2025. Among newer AI app builders, Lovable reports more than 60 million projects created since its November 2024 launch. Both are company disclosures measured differently, users versus projects, so they do not rank the platforms against each other.
How many people build apps without coding?
Microsoft counted 56 million monthly active Power Platform users in April 2025, users who increasingly use its AI features to build apps and automate processes. Lovable reports more than 60 million projects since its November 2024 launch, and its user survey data shows nearly 8 in 10 are building a business or side project they hope to monetize. Neither figure counts unique people across platforms, so the two cannot be added together.
Conclusion
Gartner’s projection of $26.9 billion for the low-code market in 2023 and Microsoft’s 56 million monthly active Power Platform users in April 2025 describe a category past early adoption. Growth now sits in two places: agent building inside existing low-code tools, and prompt-based app builders that reach people who never wrote code.
Trust is the open question. Pega says unprecedented changes in the AI market caused clients to delay their purchasing decisions, and Bubble builders trusted visual development more than vibe coding for mission-critical apps. The next earnings cycles will show whether AI app builders turn project counts into durable enterprise contracts.
