Low Code and No Code Statistics (2026): Market Size, Growth and Adoption Data

Pick any two 2026 estimates of the low code market size and you can be $40 billion apart. Four research houses publish a 2026 figure for the low-code development platform market, and they run from $26.30 billion (Coherent Market Insights) to $66.2 billion (The Business Research Company). All four are modelled estimates, not audited totals. Below, each is labelled with its scope, base year and publisher so you can cite the one that fits your question, followed by no-code sizing, adoption survey data and the gaps nobody has filled.

Key low code statistics for 2026

• $66.2 billion: 2026 low-code development platform market revenue, global, platforms and services, per The Business Research Company, a modelled estimate (2025 base year, report published September 2026).

• $44.6 billion: 2026 low-code application development platform market revenue, global, per Grand View Research, a modelled estimate on a 2023 base year (page updated January 2024).

• $31.59 billion: 2026 low-code development platform market revenue, global, per Mordor Intelligence, a modelled estimate (page updated 11 September 2026).

• $26.30 billion: 2026 low-code development platform market revenue, global, per Coherent Market Insights, a modelled estimate (base year 2025, published 16 March 2026).

• $45.24 billion: 2026 no-code development platforms market revenue, global, per The Business Research Company's no-code report, a modelled estimate (2025 base year).

• 71.35%: share of Mordor's 2025 low-code revenue from the platform segment, with services making up the rest (Mordor's modelled split, same page as above).

• $7.93 billion: 2026 market for low-code mobile app development platforms, global, per Mordor's separate mobile model (model vintage January 2026; same producer as the broader estimate).

• 98%: share of surveyed enterprises that say they use low-code platforms, tools or features in development. The respondents were 2,000 people at companies of 1,500 or more employees in five countries, per the Mendix survey, vendor-published on 28 March 2025.

• 64%: share of the same Mendix respondents who say they already use low-code to increase developer productivity. This is self-reported use, not a measured gain.

• 41%: share of respondents who say low-code handles 25–49% of software support, per HFS Research with Infosys support (2024 fieldwork, published 20 February 2025, n=131, sponsor-supported survey).

• 20%: share of the same HFS respondents (n=131) who say they have never used no-code.

• 17%: share of HFS respondents (n=200) who give more than half of business users access to low-code or no-code.

Forecasts are kept out of this list on purpose. They appear, labelled, in the next section.

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How big is the low-code market in 2026?

Among the estimates reviewed, four research houses publish a 2026 figure for the low-code market. Each is a third-party modelled estimate. None is an audited total or a disclosed actual.

Grand View's 2026 column is a model output from a 2023 base, so it is the oldest vintage of the four.

Growth rates and forecasts

Each publisher's growth figure describes a different interval, so the rates cannot be ranked against each other.

The forecasts, each a projection and not a current figure: The Business Research Company projects $205.56 billion by 2030, Coherent projects $163.24 billion by 2033, Grand View projects $101.7 billion by 2030, and Mordor projects $78.94 billion by 2031.

Why are the 2026 estimates about 2.5× apart?

The highest estimate, $66.2 billion, is about 2.5 times the lowest, $26.30 billion. That ratio is our calculation from two modelled estimates, not a published figure.

Scope does not explain it. Both The Business Research Company and Mordor include services alongside platforms, so "platforms only versus platforms and services" is not the cause. None of the four publishers states why its number differs from the others, and the public pages do not give enough method detail to reconstruct the gap.

One oddity is worth knowing before you treat any of these as precise. Coherent's 2026 estimate is $26.30 billion, and Mordor's 2025 estimate is also $26.30 billion: identical figures, different years, different houses.

IDC sits in a separate category. Its forecast covers low-code, no-code and intelligent developer technologies combined, rising from $32.3 billion in 2024 to $225.4 billion in 2029 (a 47.4% CAGR), per IDC's published abstract. It publishes no 2026 figure in that abstract, and its wider scope makes it a different measurement, not a fifth entry in the table above.

No-code market size and growth

The Business Research Company estimates the no-code development platforms market at $45.24 billion for 2026, up from $35.61 billion in 2025 (about 27% by our calculation from those two figures). The same report forecasts $102.57 billion by 2030, a 22.7% CAGR over 2026 to 2030.

The firm's low-code and no-code numbers come from two models by one producer, so they do not corroborate each other. Whether the two scopes overlap is not published, so do not add them together.

Where is the low-code market growing fastest?

Mordor publishes 2025 segment shares for its low-code model. Treat them as one house's view, not a consensus:

• Platform segment: 71.35% of revenue, with services growing at a 23.45% CAGR to 2031.

• Web-based application development: 54.40% share, with mobile growing at a 22.63% CAGR to 2031.

• Cloud deployment: 60.25% share, growing at a 22.76% CAGR to 2031.

• Large enterprises: 63.10% share, with SMEs growing at a 21.85% CAGR.

• BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance): 26.40% share, with education the fastest-growing vertical at a 23.71% CAGR.

• North America: 30.60% share, with Asia-Pacific the fastest-growing region at a 21.13% CAGR.

For mobile teams, Mordor's separate mobile model is the closer fit. It estimates $7.93 billion for 2026, up from $6.81 billion in 2025, and $18.85 billion by 2031 at an 18.91% CAGR (a forecast). Because it comes from the same publisher, it does not independently confirm the web share above. It is also not a published subset of the broader figures, so do not add it to them or subtract it from them.

What do low-code adoption surveys report?

Adoption surveys ask different questions of different people, so each result below keeps its own population.

Mendix (vendor-published, 28 March 2025). Mendix, part of Siemens, surveyed 2,000 respondents: 30% technical C-suite and 70% senior IT decision-makers, at enterprises of 1,500 or more employees in the US, UK, Germany, Benelux and Japan, across manufacturing, financial services, the public sector and retail.

• 98% say their enterprise uses low-code platforms, tools or features in development.

• 69% use two to four different low-code platforms or tools.

• 64% say they already use low-code to increase developer productivity. That is reported use, not measured productivity.

HFS Research (sponsor-supported, 2024 fieldwork, published 20 February 2025). HFS, with Infosys support, asked how much of software support each method covers. The workload results come from 131 respondents, within a wider study of 200 enterprise leaders:

• 41% say low-code handles 25–49% of software support.

• 19% say low-code handles more than half.

• 54% say no-code handles 10% or less.

• 20% say they have never used no-code.

Across all 200 respondents, only 17% give more than half of business or non-IT users access to low-code or no-code. Respondents expect that to reach 45% within two years, which is their expectation and not a forecast by HFS.

Mendix asked large enterprises about reported use. HFS asked a smaller panel about share of workload. The two surveys use different samples and different questions, so they do not combine into one adoption rate, and with fieldwork in different periods they do not show a trend either.

What is blocking low-code adoption?

HFS (n=200) reports these barriers, which are respondents' perceptions and not measured outcomes:

• 91% agree that IT and business teams still need training, even though low-code is easier than traditional coding.

• 53% cite lack of IT training as a top challenge.

• 48% cite too many duplicate low-code solutions.

• 47% cite lack of access to talent or skills.

Each respondent could choose up to three challenges, so the three shares do not sum to a whole.

What do these numbers not tell you?

None of the market-size or adoption sources above reports a defect rate, a testing cost or a quality outcome for applications built on low-code or no-code platforms. They measure forecast revenue, self-reported use and perceived barriers.

The question can be studied. The peer-reviewed paper Understanding Commercial Low-code App Bugs was presented in the technical track at APSEC 2025 in Macao, 2–5 December 2025. This article does not report its findings.

A convincing answer would compare defect rates and testing effort between low-code-built and hand-coded applications under matched conditions. It would state the population of applications, define the defect count and its denominator, and set an observation period. For mobile apps, it would compare the distribution of failure classes across the two groups. Quash has not run that comparison, and no first-party Quash data covers this question.

Two more gaps remain: no reviewed publisher explains the spread between its estimate and the others, and no source gives mobile a share of low-code revenue defined on the same basis as the broader market. If you are weighing how testing changes when scripts disappear, Quash's guide to no-code test automation covers where codeless testing works and where it breaks down. That is about test tooling, not apps built with low-code platforms.

What to watch in 2027

Three things would improve the record. Publishers could disclose scope and base year in a common format, which would show whether the 2026 estimates converge. An independent survey could repeat the HFS workload question, giving a real trend in place of two dissimilar samples. And the defect research could gain a follow-on that measures low-code-built apps against a hand-coded baseline.

For teams that test mobile apps, the practical question is which failures appear in low-code-built screens and flows. Quash describes itself as a mobile, web and API testing platform; that says what the product does and is not evidence about low-code-built applications.

Methodology and source notes

Market-size figures come from each publisher's own report page, read in October 2026. Where a page gives a value in a table or summary, the figure here matches it. Survey figures come from the Mendix and HFS publications, with sample sizes as stated on those pages.

• All four 2026 market figures are modelled estimates. None is an audited total.

• Growth rates cover five different intervals, listed in the growth table.

• The Business Research Company's low-code and no-code figures come from one firm, and Mordor's segment shares and mobile estimate come from one firm.

• Mendix is a vendor, so its survey is used only for what its respondents reported. HFS's study was supported by Infosys.

• Gartner and Fortune Business Insights figures are omitted because their primary pages could not be read, and InfoWorld's 2022 forecast is older than the 24-month window.

Conclusion

For a 2026 low code market size figure, choose the publisher whose scope matches your question, name its base year, and cite it as a modelled estimate. Quote two or more if the number carries weight in your argument, and say they differ. For adoption, use the Mendix or HFS figure with its own population attached, and do not average them. If your decision depends on whether low-code-built apps need less testing, the public record does not yet answer it, so treat any claim that they do as unsupported.