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AI & Software · AI Coding Assistants

Claude Code leads, named first in 30% of runs.

Measured on 2026-08-22. One step per question, 5 runs each across 3 engines. A taller step means the brand was named more often for that question.

RUN 2026-08-22METHOD v15 RUNS/Q3 ENGINES: CHATGPT · CLAUDE · PERPLEXITY
MEASURED 2026-08-22UPDATES EVERY MONDAYCHECK THE RAW DATA →

Legacy reading: question wording comes from the current bank; historical wording was not recorded.

No earlier published measurement is available for comparison.

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Published readings
15 questions · hover a step to read one down the board
Brand
01Claude Code151/22530%
02GitHub Copilot143/22527%
03Cursor157/22516%
04Qodo15/2255%
06Amazon Q58/2254%
07Devin17/2254%
09Aider54/2252%
10Windsurf43/2252%
11Continue36/2251%
12Replit Agent19/2251%
13Cline29/2250%
14Tabnine29/2250%
15JetBrains AI42/2250%
16Codex35/2250%
17Augment19/2250%
18Zed8/2250%

Does an engine favour its own tool?

Some of the products above are made by the same companies whose assistants we ask. This compares how often an engine named its own product against how often every other engine named it. A gap is a measurement, not an accusation, and a small gap on this sample size is noise.

Claude Codemade by claude, claude-codeITS OWN85%64/75RIVALS58%87/150+27.3
Codexmade by chatgpt, codexITS OWN3%2/75RIVALS22%33/150-19.3

What the answers were built from

The domains these assistants cited most while answering. This is where the recorded citations or search results point to. This does not establish what caused a recommendation.

dev.to160
nxcode.io132
augmentcode.com129
reddit.com98
daily.dev85
qodo.ai81
axify.io80
verdent.ai80
github.com61
zapier.com54