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IDEs & Coding Tools Leaderboard

Our picks come first, in the order we would recommend them, with the benchmark, the price, the licence, the builds and the news beside each one. Everything after them is ranked by its independent score.

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Coding agents and editors

The tools that write the code: agents you hand a task to, and editors you work in alongside one. Ranked mostly by what builders actually ship with.

01 Claude Code
Behind more of the builds we track than any other tool, and tied for the top verified SWE-bench score on this board.
- 88.6% SWE-bench #1 of 15
- 37 builds name Claude Code
- 2 in the news ↑ from 1
02 OpenAI Codex
The second most-named coding agent in the builds, and the one gaining most in the news this month.
- Not scored yet
- 16 builds name Codex
- 2 in the news → from 2
03 Cursor 2.0
The editor most people already code in, now training its own models and hosting its own code.
- 51.7% SWE-bench #11 of 15
- 4 builds name Cursor
- 0 in the news ↓ from 4

04 GitHub CopilotAI pair programmer for your IDE
- 56% SWE-bench #10 of 15
- 1 in the news ↑ from 0
05 Google Antigravity 2.0Standalone agent-first platform with CLI, SDK, and managed agents
- Not scored yet
- 1 build names Antigravity
- 1 in the news ↑ from 0
06 Replit AgentThe autonomous agent for full-stack deployment
- Not scored yet
07 Lovable.devAI-powered full-stack development platform
- Not scored yet

Scores: SWE-bench Verified (2026-07-01). Builds: 291 of the 422 on /builds, r/ClaudeAI left out. News: the daily briefing, 30 days to 2026-10-21.

RANK BY CATEGORY

All Tools 404tools LLMs 152tools IDEs & Coding Tools 75tools Text → Image 63tools Multimodal Reasoning 51tools Image → Video 49tools Text → Video 46tools Image → Image 46tools Text → Audio 30tools Image → 3D 29tools Text → 3D 28tools AI Assistants 20tools Video → Video 14tools Multi-Service Platforms 13tools Infrastructure 9tools Agentic Browsers 7tools

REAL BENCHMARK SCORES

① Claude Code [88.6 %]

② Claude Opus 4.8 [88.6 %]

③ Claude Opus 4.6 [80.8 %]

#4 DeepSeek V4-Pro [80.6 %]

#5 Ox Alpha [80 %]

#6 Claude 4.6 Sonnet [79.6 %]

#7 Gemini 3.7 Flash [65.3 %]

#8 GLM-5.2 [62.1 %]

#9 Mistral Large 4 [61.7 %]

#10 GitHub Copilot [56 %]

#11 Cursor 2.0 [51.7 %]

#12 Reflection Beam [44.4 %]

#13 Windsurf [40.08 %]

#14 Claude Haiku 5.5 [39.2 %]

#15 GLM 5.3 [28.3 %]

Source: SWE-bench Verified, as of 2026-07-01. Shown only for models with independently verified scores. Not every tool in this category has published, comparable data.

RESULTS

75 tools • curated

Rank	Tool	Modality	Pricing
①	Claude Code Terminal-based AI coding assistant for agentic development	IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
②	OpenAI Codex AI system that translates natural language into code	IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
③	Cursor 2.0 The AI-native IDE that redefined software engineering	IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
4	GitHub Copilot AI pair programmer for your IDE	IDEs & Coding Tools	Enterprise
5	Google Antigravity 2.0 Standalone agent-first platform with CLI, SDK, and managed agents	IDEs & Coding Tools, AI Assistants	Freemium
6	Replit Agent The autonomous agent for full-stack deployment	IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
7	Lovable.dev AI-powered full-stack development platform	IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
8	Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic's powerful enterprise model from May 2026	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Enterprise
9	Claude Opus 4.6 The ceiling of enterprise autonomy with 1M context	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Enterprise
10	DeepSeek V4-Pro DeepSeek's open-weight model with permanent pricing	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning	Freemium
11	Ox Alpha Anonymous 1M-context reasoning model available free through OpenRouter	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Free
12	Claude 4.6 Sonnet The industry standard for coding and nuanced instruction following	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
13	Gemini 3.7 Flash Google's coding workhorse, three weeks after 3.6 Flash	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
14	GLM-5.2 753B open-weight MoE coding model with a 1M-token context, MIT licensed	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
15	Mistral Large 4 Europe's 1-trillion-parameter model, in preview now with open weights promised	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning	Freemium
16	Reflection Beam A 501B open-weight coding and agent model from a US lab, under Apache 2.0	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Free
17	Windsurf The first agentic IDE with Flow-state intelligence	IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
18	Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic's small model at a tenth of Haiku 4.5's price, matching GPT-6 Luna	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
19	GLM 5.3 Z.ai's post-trained coding and agentic model on the GLM-5.2 base	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
20	Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic's cheaper, faster follow-up to Opus 5, priced near Fable 5.1's level	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
21	Claude Opus 5 Anthropic's frontier model, currently first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning	Freemium
22	GPT-6 Sol OpenAI's coding-focused GPT-6 model at half the price of GPT-5.6 Sol	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
23	GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI's top-tier model for complex professional work	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
24	Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic's mid-tier model that lands within a few points of Opus 5.5 at half the price	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
25	Kimi K3 Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight flagship	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
26	Muse Wonder Meta's first frontier model, for long-running agents, coding and computer use	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
27	Grok 4.5 xAI's flagship coding model, trained in partnership with Cursor	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
28	Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic's cheaper, near-Opus everyday model	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
29	CodeSandbox Cloud-based online IDE for web development	IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
30	Muse Spark 1.3 Meta's agentic coding model, tuned to finish long jobs in fewer steps	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
31	Firebase Studio Online IDE by Google with AI assistance	IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
32	Amazon Q Developer AI code generator with AWS integration	IDEs & Coding Tools	Enterprise
33	SERA (AI2) Open-Source Coding Agents for Private, Fine-Tuned Development	IDEs & Coding Tools	Free
34	Cursor Composer 2.5 Cursor's agentic coding model for multi-file software engineering	IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs	Paid
35	OpenCode Open-source, model-agnostic terminal coding agent	IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs	Free
36	Grok Build xAI's agentic coding CLI for autonomous software engineering	IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs	Freemium
37	Mistral Vibe Mistral's unified work and coding agent	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, AI Assistants	Freemium
38	Kimi K2.7-Code Moonshot's specialized coding model	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
39	GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI's balanced GPT-5.6 model for intelligence and cost	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
40	Kimi K2.7 Code Highspeed Faster inference variant of Kimi's coding specialist	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
41	GLM-5-Turbo Optimized GLM-5 variant for fast sequential task execution	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
42	Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral's mid-tier workhorse for reasoning, coding, and instruction	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
43	MiniMax M2.7 Recursive self-improvement language model for real-world engineering	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
44	MiniMax M2.7 Highspeed Same M2.7 performance with significantly faster inference	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
45	Mistral Small 4 Unified open-source small model for chat, reasoning, vision, and coding	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning	Freemium
46	DeepSeek V4-Flash High-volume DeepSeek inference with a 1M-token context window	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning	Freemium
47	Hunyuan Hy3 Preview Tencent's latest open-source MoE flagship with tool use	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
48	Kimi K2.6 Moonshot's open-weight multimodal successor with long-context coding stability	LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
49	Claude Opus 4.7 Frontier Opus model with higher-resolution vision and xhigh effort	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning	Enterprise
50	GLM-5.1 MIT-licensed MoE flagship for 8-hour autonomous coding sessions	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
51	GLM-5 744B-parameter open-weight MoE flagship for agentic planning and execution	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
52	Qwen3-Coder-Next 80B parameter open-weight coding powerhouse	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Free
53	VibeTensor (Nvidia) The first research stack built entirely by AI agents	IDEs & Coding Tools	Free
54	v0.dev (Vercel) Generative UI for React, Tailwind, and Shadcn UI	IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
55	Bolt.new Full-stack web applications in the browser	IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
56	Kimi K2.5 Moonshot's open-weight multimodal generalist with agent swarms	LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
57	DeepSeek V3.2 The 128K-context MoE flagship that introduced sparse attention	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning	Freemium
58	Claude Opus 4.5 First Claude model with the effort parameter and context compaction	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Enterprise
59	Cursor Composer 1 Cursor's first-generation agentic coding model	IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs	Paid
60	Claude Sonnet 4.5 Balanced Sonnet model with major coding and agentic improvements	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
61	GLM-4.6 Mid-range coding and tool-calling model with 200K context	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
62	Grok Code Fast 1 xAI's fast, cheap coding specialist model	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
63	Codestral 25.08 Mistral's code-specialist model with fill-in-the-middle support	IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
64	GLM-4.5-Air Cost-efficient reasoning, coding, and agent model	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
65	Qwen 3 Alibaba's open-source MoE flagship with thinking modes	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, AI Assistants	Free
66	Gemini 2.5 Pro Google's high-performance reasoning model with advanced coding	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning	Freemium
67	Qwen 2.5-Max Alibaba's closed-API flagship before Qwen 3	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
68	Qwen 2.5-Coder Alibaba's open coding-specialist model	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Free
69	Microsoft MAI Models (Build 2026) Microsoft's unified AI model family from Build 2026	LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning, Text → Audio, Text → Image, IDEs & Coding Tools, AI Assistants	Enterprise
70	SWE-2 Cognition's Devin-exclusive coding model, RL-trained on top of Kimi K3	IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
71	Cursor Origin Code hosting platform, competitive alternative to GitHub	IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
72	Dulo Foundation models for hardware design	IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid
73	Laguna S 2.1 118B MoE model beats rivals 10x its size on coding benchmarks	IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs	Free
74	Gemini 3.6 Flash Google's faster, sharper agentic-coding upgrade to 3.5 Flash	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Freemium
75	Qwen 3.8-Max Alibaba's 2.4-trillion-parameter flagship, currently in preview	LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools	Paid

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