Best AI coding assistants
24 products named in 120 answers across 4 wordings
In nearly every answer
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How often 10 AI models recommend Continue, what they say about it, and who they recommend instead, on the 1 buying question where it came up.
- Mention rate
- 13%of all answers on this question
- Best standing
- #17of 24 on Best AI coding assistants
- Buying questions
- 1where any model named it
- Never named it
- 3of 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
Never named it: Claude Haiku 5.5 Qwen 3.8 Flash GLM-5.3
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 2
- MiniMax M3
Open-source, model-agnostic assistant with strong customization.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra
Open-source, local-first, highly customizable assistant
Against the competition
Each question's products ranked by the share of all answers that named them, Continue highlighted.
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 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 67 | 8 | 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 | 13 | 23 | 17 |
Head to head
Against the products named most often on the same questions
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