The editors and agents that build everything else. Ranked on the same four numbers.
Code editors, autonomous agents and the infrastructure behind them: 54 tools, scored on craft, speed, control and value.
- Tracked
- 54
- Fully reviewed
- 00
- Categories
- 04
- Average score
- 75.6
The short answer
What is the best AI coding tool in 2026?
Claude Code leads our index of 54 AI coding tools with 81.8 out of 100, ahead of Cursor on 81.8 and Conductor on 81.8. Editors, agents and review tools are scored on the same four numbers: craft, speed, control and value. Nothing here is sponsored.
Index updated
The tools index
Every tool we track, in rank order.
The editors, agents and infrastructure you reach for when a builder stops being enough. Narrow by how the tool works, or re-sort by what you care about.
54 builders
0181.8Claude Code
A terminal agent for the problems that span a dozen files at once.
Coding agentProvisional
0281.8Cursor
The editor most teams settled on, with an agent that ships whole features.
AI code editorProvisional
0381.8Conductor
A free macOS app for running multiple Claude Code or Codex agents in parallel isolated workspaces.
AI code editorProvisional
0481.5Cline
An open-source agent in your editor where you pay only for the model.
Coding agentProvisional
0581.4Aider
Terminal pair programming that commits as it goes, with any model you like.
Coding agentProvisional
0680.9Pulumi AI (Neo)
An AI infrastructure agent that generates and manages cloud infrastructure in TypeScript, Python, and Go.
Backend and infraProvisional
0780.5Devin Desktop
The editor formerly called Windsurf, now a control room for several agents.
AI code editorProvisional
0880.4Zed
An editor fast enough that the AI is never the thing you are waiting for.
AI code editorProvisional
0979.1Greptile
AI code reviewer that builds a graph index of your codebase to catch cross-file bugs and security issues.
Code reviewProvisional
1079.1OpenHands
Open-source agent infrastructure you can host and govern yourself.
Coding agentProvisional
1178.7Codex
Delegate a task, come back to a diff with logs and test citations.
Coding agentProvisional
1278.1Kilo Code
Open-source VS Code and JetBrains AI coding agent with 500+ models and zero markup.
Coding agentProvisional
1377.6CodeRabbit
AI code reviewer that analyzes pull requests across GitHub, GitLab, Azure, and Bitbucket with one-click fixes.
Code reviewProvisional
1477.4CodeGPT
A bring-your-own-key AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains with 2 million active installs.
AI code editorProvisional
1577.1Goose
Open-source general-purpose AI agent for code, automation, and workflows on your local machine.
Coding agentProvisional
The complete index
Every entry on this page, in rank order. The cards above load in batches; this list does not.
- 01Claude Code81.8
- 02Cursor81.8
- 03Conductor81.8
- 04Cline81.5
- 05Aider81.4
- 06Pulumi AI (Neo)80.9
- 07Devin Desktop80.5
- 08Zed80.4
- 09Greptile79.1
- 10OpenHands79.1
- 11Codex78.7
- 12Kilo Code78.1
- 13CodeRabbit77.6
- 14CodeGPT77.4
- 15Goose77.1
- 16GitHub Copilot77.0
- 17Kiro76.9
- 18Cleric76.7
- 19DeepSource76.5
- 20PearAI76.3
- 21Refact.ai76.3
- 22Warp76.2
- 23Ellipsis76.0
- 24Traycer75.9
- 25Semgrep75.8
- 26Void75.8
- 27Devin75.2
- 28Jules75.2
- 29Potpie75.2
- 30Amazon Q Developer75.0
- 31Augment Code74.9
- 32Codebuff74.9
- 33cubic74.8
- 34Korbit74.5
- 35SWE-agent74.4
- 36Sourcery74.2
- 37Codacy74.1
- 38Datadog Bits AI74.0
- 39Roomote74.0
- 40Graphite73.9
- 41Resolve AI73.8
- 42Tabnine73.6
- 43Factory73.3
- 44Snyk73.1
- 45Qodo72.8
- 46Zencoder72.8
- 47Trae72.8
- 48JetBrains AI Assistant72.6
- 49Baz71.5
- 50Bito71.0
- 51What The Diff69.0
- 52MatterAI68.9
- 53Entelligence68.8
- 54Cosine68.3
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