Best AI coding assistants (search query)

We asked 10 models: best ai coding assistant 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
66%
Same model, run twice
78%
Different picks
20

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

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

74% with consensus · 55% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

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

70% with consensus · 93% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

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

72% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

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

94% with consensus · 84% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

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

69% with consensus · 77% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

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

63% with consensus · 75% self-consistent

Kimi K3

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

78% with consensus · 54% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

  1. GitHub Copilot
  2. Cursor
  3. Claude Code
  4. Windsurf
  5. Codeium
  6. Tabnine
  7. Aider
  8. Amazon Q Developer
  9. Cline
  10. Continue

93% with consensus · 84% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

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

93% with consensus · 93% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

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

76% with consensus · 73% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 38 (lightest) to 94 (darkest)

Claude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5838474805962697461
GPT-6 Luna838376756650677047
Gemini 4 Argon848372836153737450
Qwen 3.8 Flash747672646673879470
DeepSeek V4 Pro807583645167716664
GLM-5.3596661665141646538
Kimi K3625053736741777390
MiniMax M3696773877164778874
Mistral Large 4747074946665738871
Nemotron 3 Ultra614750706438907471