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
All Tools
346tools
LLMs
119tools
IDEs & Coding Tools
60tools
Text → Image
54tools
Multimodal Reasoning
46tools
Image → Video
45tools
Text → Video
42tools
Image → Image
39tools
Image → 3D
28tools
Text → 3D
27tools
Text → Audio
26tools
AI Assistants
17tools
Video → Video
12tools
Multi-Service Platforms
10tools
Infrastructure
7tools
Agentic Browsers
6tools
REAL BENCHMARK SCORES
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
| Rank | Tool | Modality | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| ① |
Claude Code
Terminal-based AI coding assistant for agentic development
|
IDEs & Coding Tools | Paid |
| ② |
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic's powerful enterprise model from May 2026
|
LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools | Enterprise |
| ③ |
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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