AI Recommendation Index

Which AI coding assistants does AI recommend?

October 2026. We asked ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews the same 20 buyer questions, as a buyer in the US, and counted the questions where each product was recommended.

#ProductRecommended in
1Cursor19 of 20 questions171515171515
2GitHub Copilot19 of 20 questions171316171316
3OpenAI13 of 20 questions865865
4Claude Code13 of 20 questions754754
5Claude Code12 of 20 questions574574
6Windsurf10 of 20 questions556556
7Claude Code10 of 20 questions165165
8Aider8 of 20 questions274274
9Tabnine6 of 20 questions055055
10JetBrains AI Assistant6 of 20 questions224224
11Amazon Q Developer6 of 20 questions143143
12Codeium6 of 20 questions035035
13Gemini CLI6 of 20 questions024024
14Ollama5 of 20 questions135135
15Cline5 of 20 questions051051
16Continue.dev4 of 20 questions134134
17Visual Studio Code4 of 20 questions223223
18Gemini Code Assist4 of 20 questions121121
19Devin Desktop3 of 20 questions300300
20Replit Agent2 of 20 questions211211
21Qodo2 of 20 questions112112
22ChatGPT2 of 20 questions211211
23CodeRabbit2 of 20 questions121121
24GGitHub Copilot2 of 20 questions021021
25v02 of 20 questions021021

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The 20 questions we ask every month
  1. What's the best AI coding assistant for a professional developer?
  2. Which AI coding tool is best for a solo developer building a SaaS?
  3. What's the best AI code editor right now?
  4. Which AI coding agent can work through a large task on its own from the terminal?
  5. What's the best AI coding assistant for a team of 10 engineers?
  6. Which AI coding assistant handles a large, messy legacy codebase best?
  7. What's the best free AI coding assistant?
  8. Which AI coding tool is best for writing and fixing tests?
  9. What AI coding assistant should a beginner learning to code use?
  10. Which AI coding assistant works best inside VS Code?
  11. What's the best AI coding tool for JetBrains IDEs?
  12. Which AI coding assistant is best for Python and data work?
  13. What's the best AI coding tool for building a React and TypeScript front end?
  14. Which AI coding assistants keep our code private and don't train on it?
  15. What's the best AI coding assistant for an enterprise with strict security reviews?
  16. Which AI coding agent is best at reviewing pull requests?
  17. What's a cheaper AI coding assistant for a developer whose current plan keeps hitting usage limits?
  18. Which AI coding tools can run several agents in parallel on different tasks?
  19. What's the best AI coding assistant for mobile app development?
  20. Which AI coding assistant is best for infrastructure work like Terraform and CI pipelines?

One answer per engine per question, collected on one day. AI answers vary between runs and people, so read this as a monthly snapshot. See the methodology.