Best AI coding assistants (buyer asking for advice)

We asked 10 models: I'm a software developer looking for an AI assistant to help me write code. Which would you recommend? Each named its own top 10.

Asked 4 ways: List request · Buyer asking for advice · Search query · Worth paying for?. Share of voice pools every wording.

Agreement between models
62%
Same model, run twice
82%
Different picks
19

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#PickScoreListed byClaude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra

4 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.

Most divisive

Picks most models listed, at very different positions

Hot takes

Picks that appear on only one ballot

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Haiku 5.5

  1. Claude
  2. GitHub Copilot
  3. Cursor
  4. ChatGPT
  5. Gemini
  6. Amazon Q Developer
  7. Windsurf
  8. Tabnine
  9. Codeium
  10. Replit

65% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

  1. GitHub Copilot
  2. Cursor
  3. Windsurf
  4. Claude Code
  5. OpenAI Codex
  6. JetBrains AI Assistant
  7. Amazon Q Developer
  8. Claude
  9. Gemini Code Assist
  10. ChatGPT

76% with consensus · 78% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

  1. Cursor
  2. GitHub Copilot
  3. Windsurf
  4. Claude
  5. Supermaven
  6. Tabnine
  7. ChatGPT
  8. Sourcegraph Cody
  9. Amazon Q Developer
  10. Cline

71% with consensus · 92% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

  1. GitHub Copilot
  2. Cursor
  3. Claude Code
  4. Amazon Q Developer
  5. OpenAI Codex
  6. Tabnine
  7. Windsurf
  8. Codeium
  9. Gemini Code Assist
  10. JetBrains AI Assistant

73% with consensus · 90% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. GitHub Copilot
  2. Cursor
  3. Claude
  4. ChatGPT
  5. Codeium
  6. Windsurf
  7. Tabnine
  8. Replit
  9. Sourcegraph Cody
  10. Amazon CodeWhisperer

87% with consensus · 80% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

  1. Cursor
  2. GitHub Copilot
  3. Claude Code
  4. Windsurf
  5. Aider
  6. Claude
  7. Cline
  8. ChatGPT
  9. OpenAI Codex
  10. Gemini Code Assist

63% with consensus · 55% self-consistent

Kimi K3

  1. GitHub Copilot
  2. Claude
  3. Cursor
  4. ChatGPT
  5. Gemini
  6. Windsurf
  7. Amazon Q Developer
  8. Tabnine
  9. Codeium
  10. JetBrains AI Assistant

82% with consensus · 71% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

  1. GitHub Copilot
  2. Cursor
  3. Claude Code
  4. Tabnine
  5. Codeium
  6. Windsurf
  7. Sourcegraph Cody
  8. Amazon Q Developer
  9. ChatGPT
  10. JetBrains AI Assistant

75% with consensus · 84% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

  1. GitHub Copilot
  2. Claude
  3. Cursor
  4. ChatGPT
  5. Amazon CodeWhisperer
  6. Sourcegraph Cody
  7. Tabnine
  8. Codeium
  9. Windsurf
  10. JetBrains AI Assistant

77% with consensus · 84% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

  1. GitHub Copilot
  2. Cursor
  3. Claude
  4. ChatGPT
  5. Tabnine
  6. Codeium
  7. Windsurf
  8. JetBrains AI Assistant
  9. Amazon Q Developer
  10. Cline

89% with consensus · 88% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 43 (lightest) to 92 (darkest)

Claude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5445547664583457067
GPT-6 Luna446082656662755567
Gemini 4 Argon556051647456565565
Qwen 3.8 Flash478251666161845869
DeepSeek V4 Pro666564665482758392
GLM-5.3456674615447624353
Kimi K3836256618247638683
MiniMax M3457556847562636276
Mistral Large 4705555588343866281
Nemotron 3 Ultra676765699253837681