Claude Code

By Anthropic

How often 10 AI models recommend Claude Code, what they say about it, and who they recommend instead, on the 1 buying question where it came up.

Mention rate

66%of all answers on this question

Best standing

#6of 24 on Best AI coding assistants

Buying questions

1where any model named it

Never named it

0of 10 models

Which models recommend it

Share of each model's answers that named it, at any position · The black tick marks the panel average

1. Qwen 3.8 Flash100%
2. MiniMax M3100%
3. GPT-6 Luna92%
4. GLM-5.392%
5. Claude Haiku 5.567%
6. Mistral Large 458%
7. Kimi K350%
8. DeepSeek V4 Pro42%
9. Gemini 4 Argon33%
10. Nemotron 3 Ultra25%

Tracked since October 25, 2026. Each time the panel answers these questions again, the change shows here.

What the models say

Each model's one-line reason for recommending it, from its first answer

Best AI coding assistants 10

• Claude Haiku 5.5Excellent agentic terminal coding with strong reasoning over large codebases.
• GPT-6 LunaHighly capable terminal-based agent for complex coding tasks and repository-wide changes.
• Gemini 4 ArgonExceptional agentic terminal workflow capable of autonomously navigating and refactoring complex codebases.
• Qwen 3.8 FlashTop-tier agentic coding; excels at large refactors.
• DeepSeek V4 ProAgentic power with deep reasoning, excels at complex multi-file tasks.
• GLM-5.3Powerful agentic coding terminal with excellent real-world results.
• Kimi K3Superior reasoning for complex architectural decisions and refactoring.
• MiniMax M3Terminal-native agent excelling at complex, multi-file refactors.
• Mistral Large 4Superior reasoning for complex refactors and architectural decisions.
• Nemotron 3 UltraExcellent reasoning for complex refactoring and architecture

Against the competition

Each question's products ranked by the share of all answers that named them, Claude Code highlighted.

Best AI coding assistants

24 products named in 120 answers across 4 wordings

In nearly every answer

CursorGitHub CopilotWindsurfAmazon Q Developer

Contested

1. 5Tabnine88%
2. 6Claude Code66%
3. 7JetBrains AI Assistant64%
4. 8Cody61%
5. 9Replit48%

Mention rate by model and question

Share of each model's answers on the question that named it · Hover a cell for the count

Question	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
Best AI coding assistants	67	92	33	100	42	92	50	100	58	25

Does the wording matter?

Share of answers that named it under each way of asking the question · Hover a cell for the exact wording

Question	List request	Buyer asking for advice	Search query	Worth paying for?
Best AI coding assistants	77	33	83	70

Head to head

Against the products named most often on the same questions

Claude Code vs CursorClaude Code vs GitHub CopilotClaude Code vs WindsurfClaude Code vs Amazon Q DeveloperClaude Code vs TabnineClaude Code vs JetBrains AI Assistant

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