Best AI coding assistants

We asked 10 models: The best AI coding assistants for software developers. 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
72%
Same model, run twice
88%
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. Tabnine
  7. Codeium
  8. Replit
  9. JetBrains AI Assistant
  10. Gemini Code Assist

78% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

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

84% with consensus · 95% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

  1. Cursor
  2. GitHub Copilot
  3. Claude
  4. Cody
  5. Windsurf
  6. Supermaven
  7. ChatGPT
  8. Claude Code
  9. Tabnine
  10. Codeium

56% with consensus · 77% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

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

74% with consensus · 93% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

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

77% with consensus · 79% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

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

94% with consensus · 84% self-consistent

Kimi K3

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

97% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

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

91% with consensus · 88% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

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

90% with consensus · 90% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

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

75% with consensus · 85% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 42 (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 5.5696861567678747657
GPT-6 Luna695181658684818662
Gemini 4 Argon685142645355525461
Qwen 3.8 Flash618142577376727656
DeepSeek V4 Pro566564577375757081
GLM-5.3768653737394908771
Kimi K3788455767594919073
MiniMax M3748152727590918875
Mistral Large 4768654767087908868
Nemotron 3 Ultra576261568171737568