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What are the best AI coding agents for making reliable changes across a large existing codebase?

Which brands each model API named when asked this question, and which pages it cited. Answer text is not published.
Snapshot Sep 16, 2026. Each category is re-run in rotation, every few weeks.

Recommendation

Kind of question

3

Model APIs

9

Brands named

12

Pages cited

Brands

Brands the answers named

Ordered by how many model APIs named the brand, then by mentions. A mention is not an endorsement or a position.
Rank#BrandModel APIsMentionsOwn-site citationsNamed by
1Claude Codeanthropic.com230OpenAI · Google
2Tabninetabnine.com230OpenAI · Google
3Augment Codeaugmentcode.com222OpenAI · Google
4GitHub Copilotgithub.com220OpenAI · Google
5OpenAI Codexopenai.com220OpenAI · Google
6Windsurfwindsurf.com220OpenAI · Google
7Cursorcursor.com110Google
8Devincognition.ai110Google
9JetBrains AI Assistantjetbrains.com110Google

Model APIs

What each model API returned

One row per model API. The hash identifies the exact answer without publishing it.
Model APIModelBrands namedCitationsDomainsAnswer hash
OpenAIopenai/gpt-4o-miniGitHub Copilot · Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · Windsurf · Augment Code · Tabnine66eaf93ada…32f42
Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5None named00555e3304…ea2c1
Googlegoogle/gemini-2.5-flashCursor · GitHub Copilot · Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · Windsurf · JetBrains AI Assistant · Devin · Augment Code · Tabnine997f315bbc…305a1

Sources

Pages the answers cited

Hostnames come from the URLs the answers returned. Best position is the earliest place a page was cited in an answer.
DomainCited pageBest positionCited byCitations
intuitionlabs.aihttps://intuitionlabs.ai/articles/ai-code-assistants-large-codebases1OpenAI1
vellum.aihttps://vellum.ai/blog/best-ai-coding-agents1Google1
secondtalent.comhttps://secondtalent.com/resources/ai-code-assistants-for-codebases/2OpenAI · Google2
frontman.shhttps://frontman.sh/blog/6-ai-coding-tools-production/2Google1
faros.aihttps://faros.ai/blog/best-ai-coding-agents-20263Google1
joinleland.comhttps://joinleland.com/library/a/ai-coding-agents3OpenAI1
augmentcode.comhttps://augmentcode.com/tools/ai-coding-assistants-for-large-codebases-a-complete-guide4OpenAI1
zapier.comhttps://zapier.com/blog/ai-coding-tools/4Google1
reddit.comhttps://reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/1i14ogw/best_ai_assistant_for_large_codebases/5OpenAI · Google2
mightybot.aihttps://mightybot.ai/blog/coding-ai-agents-for-accelerating-engineering-workflows/6OpenAI · Google2
augmentcode.comhttps://augmentcode.com/tools/best-ai-coding-agent-desktop-apps7Google1
youtube.comhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=_08MiVk1n6c9Google1
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Question set
ai-developer-tools-2026-07-27
Benchmark version
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Measured in AI developer tools. Full answers are not stored or published, and no customer data is included.

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