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AI coding assistants: August 2026
The final August 2026 standings for “What AI coding assistant should I use?”. These numbers are fixed and can be cited by permalink. See the current standings.
AI share of voice · August 2026
530 sampled answers · 10 models
- 1GitHub Copilotnew32.3%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2—
- 2Cursornew31%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2—
- 3Claude Codenew14%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2· quiet
- 4Windsurfnew12%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2—
- 5Codynew8%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2—
- 6Zednew2.8%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2—
Share of voice weights each compared model equally: it is the average, across the models, of how often each one named the tool in its own answers, so a model probed more than another can't skew it. Model chips list which AI models named it this month; the pulse is the sentiment of that month's developer mentions across Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Bluesky and more.
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Averaged equally across 10 AI models, GitHub Copilot is named in 32.3% of answers about ai coding assistants (7 of 10 name it).
The 3 prompts behind these standings
- ›What AI coding assistant should I use? (recommendation)
- ›What are the best GitHub Copilot alternatives? (alternatives)
- ›Cursor vs GitHub Copilot, which is better? (comparison)
Each prompt is sampled several times per model per probe because answers vary run to run; 530 answers across 8 probe runs fed this month.