RANKED • CURATED

IDEs & Coding Tools Leaderboard

Tools with an independently verified benchmark score rank first, by that real-world score. Everything else is ranked by curated priority: quality, reliability, and unique capabilities.

RANK BY CATEGORY
REAL BENCHMARK SCORES
Claude Code [88.6 %]
Claude Opus 4.8 [88.6 %]
Claude Opus 4.6 [80.8 %]
#4 DeepSeek V4-Pro [80.6 %]
#5 Claude 4.6 Sonnet [79.6 %]
#6 GLM-5.2 [62.1 %]
#7 GitHub Copilot [56 %]
#8 Cursor 2.0 [51.7 %]
#9 Windsurf [40.08 %]
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
60 tools • curated
Rank Tool Modality Pricing
Claude Code
Terminal-based AI coding assistant for agentic development
IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic's powerful enterprise model from May 2026
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Enterprise
Claude Opus 4.6
The ceiling of enterprise autonomy with 1M context
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Enterprise
4 DeepSeek V4-Pro
DeepSeek's open-weight model with permanent pricing
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
5 Claude 4.6 Sonnet
The industry standard for coding and nuanced instruction following
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
6 GLM-5.2
753B open-weight MoE coding model with a 1M-token context, MIT licensed
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
7 GitHub Copilot
AI pair programmer for your IDE
IDEs & Coding Tools Enterprise
8 Cursor 2.0
The AI-native IDE that redefined software engineering
IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
9 Windsurf
The first agentic IDE with Flow-state intelligence
IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
10 Google Antigravity 2.0
Standalone agent-first platform with CLI, SDK, and managed agents
IDEs & Coding Tools, AI Assistants Freemium
11 Claude Opus 5
Anthropic's frontier model, currently first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
12 GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI's top-tier model for complex professional work
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
13 Kimi K3
Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight flagship
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
14 OpenAI Codex
AI system that translates natural language into code
IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
15 Lovable.dev
AI-powered full-stack development platform
IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
16 Grok 4.5
xAI's flagship coding model, trained in partnership with Cursor
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
17 Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic's cheaper, near-Opus everyday model
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
18 CodeSandbox
Cloud-based online IDE for web development
IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
19 Firebase Studio
Online IDE by Google with AI assistance
IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
20 Amazon Q Developer
AI code generator with AWS integration
IDEs & Coding Tools Enterprise
21 SERA (AI2)
Open-Source Coding Agents for Private, Fine-Tuned Development
IDEs & Coding Tools Free
22 Cursor Composer 2.5
Cursor's agentic coding model for multi-file software engineering
IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs Paid
23 OpenCode
Open-source, model-agnostic terminal coding agent
IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs Free
24 Grok Build
xAI's agentic coding CLI for autonomous software engineering
IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs Freemium
25 Mistral Vibe
Mistral's unified work and coding agent
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, AI Assistants Freemium
26 Kimi K2.7-Code
Moonshot's specialized coding model
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
27 GPT-5.6 Terra
OpenAI's balanced GPT-5.6 model for intelligence and cost
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
28 Kimi K2.7 Code Highspeed
Faster inference variant of Kimi's coding specialist
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
29 GLM-5-Turbo
Optimized GLM-5 variant for fast sequential task execution
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
30 Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral's mid-tier workhorse for reasoning, coding, and instruction
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
31 MiniMax M2.7
Recursive self-improvement language model for real-world engineering
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
32 MiniMax M2.7 Highspeed
Same M2.7 performance with significantly faster inference
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
33 Mistral Small 4
Unified open-source small model for chat, reasoning, vision, and coding
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
34 DeepSeek V4-Flash
High-volume DeepSeek inference with a 1M-token context window
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
35 Hunyuan Hy3 Preview
Tencent's latest open-source MoE flagship with tool use
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
36 Kimi K2.6
Moonshot's open-weight multimodal successor with long-context coding stability
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
37 Claude Opus 4.7
Frontier Opus model with higher-resolution vision and xhigh effort
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Enterprise
38 GLM-5.1
MIT-licensed MoE flagship for 8-hour autonomous coding sessions
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
39 GLM-5
744B-parameter open-weight MoE flagship for agentic planning and execution
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
40 Qwen3-Coder-Next
80B parameter open-weight coding powerhouse
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Free
41 VibeTensor (Nvidia)
The first research stack built entirely by AI agents
IDEs & Coding Tools Free
42 v0.dev (Vercel)
Generative UI for React, Tailwind, and Shadcn UI
IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
43 Bolt.new
Full-stack web applications in the browser
IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
44 Replit Agent
The autonomous agent for full-stack deployment
IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
45 Kimi K2.5
Moonshot's open-weight multimodal generalist with agent swarms
LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
46 DeepSeek V3.2
The 128K-context MoE flagship that introduced sparse attention
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
47 Claude Opus 4.5
First Claude model with the effort parameter and context compaction
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Enterprise
48 Cursor Composer 1
Cursor's first-generation agentic coding model
IDEs & Coding Tools, LLMs Paid
49 Claude Sonnet 4.5
Balanced Sonnet model with major coding and agentic improvements
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
50 GLM-4.6
Mid-range coding and tool-calling model with 200K context
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
51 Grok Code Fast 1
xAI's fast, cheap coding specialist model
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
52 Codestral 25.08
Mistral's code-specialist model with fill-in-the-middle support
IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
53 GLM-4.5-Air
Cost-efficient reasoning, coding, and agent model
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
54 Qwen 3
Alibaba's open-source MoE flagship with thinking modes
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, AI Assistants Free
55 Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google's high-performance reasoning model with advanced coding
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning Freemium
56 Qwen 2.5-Max
Alibaba's closed-API flagship before Qwen 3
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
57 Qwen 2.5-Coder
Alibaba's open coding-specialist model
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Free
58 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
59 Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google's faster, sharper agentic-coding upgrade to 3.5 Flash
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Freemium
60 Qwen 3.8-Max
Alibaba's 2.4-trillion-parameter flagship, currently in preview
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools Paid
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