OpenAI on Friday disclosed that weekly active users of its AI coding and productivity tool Codex in India have grown 27 times since January 2026, making the country one of its fastest-growing markets globally and securing its place among the top five nations for Codex adoption. Daily interactions with the tool were also up more than 20 times by late April, according to data shared on the sidelines of Mumbai Tech Week.
More than 25% of requests now come from non-coding tasks, reflecting rising use among researchers, founders and business teams beyond developers. The latest figures build on usage trends the company had highlighted earlier this year in its OpenAI Signals report.
Daily interactions on the platform climbed more than 20-fold in India by late April, with the company positioning the numbers as evidence of a structural shift in how Indian professionals across sectors, not just technology, are integrating AI tools into their daily work.
"What's exciting about India is that adoption is not just happening among software engineers. We are seeing founders, operators, researchers, students and business teams increasingly use Codex to turn ideas into working outcomes faster." said Thomas Jeng, Head of Startups – APAC, OpenAI
The way Codex is being used in India is increasingly expanding beyond its original focus on software development. More than a quarter of all requests from Indian users are now tied to non-coding tasks, highlighting broader adoption across professional and business workflows. In February, OpenAI had noted that coding-related use of Codex in India was running at nearly three times the global average. The latest data suggests the tool’s usage has since widened significantly.
Non-coding tasks driving Codex use in India include:
Document drafting
Research automation
Workflow management
Information synthesis
Communication-related work
India’s Codex surge is being driven by growing enterprise adoption, with TCS, Infosys and Razorpay deploying the tool across software engineering and business workflows. OpenAI said India’s expanding builder ecosystem and enterprise demand are accelerating adoption. Globally, Codex crossed two million weekly active users by March 2026, but India’s 27-fold growth has outpaced that broader trend significantly.
The Codex figures arrive as competition in the AI developer tools space intensifies sharply. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor are all targeting developer share, while enterprise spending on AI coding tools is drawing scrutiny, Uber reportedly exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget on a rival tool in four months, a data point that signals how quickly adoption costs can scale alongside usage.
For OpenAI, India's trajectory offers a more expansive opportunity: a market where AI tools are migrating from software teams into the broader workforce at speed, turning Codex from a developer productivity aid into a general-purpose execution platform.