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Augment Code ranks #21 of 34 in ai coding assistants in the week of 12 October 2026, with a visibility score of 4 across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. It was named in 3% of the answers we sampled.

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Augment Code shows up in 7 of 70 answers, with an overall score of 6 out of 100 and a mixed set of scores across assistants: Gemini gives it 9, ChatGPT 8, Perplexity 7, and Claude 3. Its strongest showing is on codebase-scale questions, named in 3 of 4 answers for "best AI coding agents that can work across a whole codebase" and 3 of 3 for "best for large codebases." It's never named for reliability, local privacy, testing, beginners, or value-for-money questions.

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Who's talking about you

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	4	0% of answers
Claude	4	10% of answers	#10.0
Gemini	5	0% of answers
Perplexity	4	0% of answers

Questions you win

question	named in	best spot
What are the best alternatives to Windsurf?	2 of 3	#8
Which AI coding assistant is best for large codebases?	1 of 3	#6
What are the best AI coding agents that can work across a whole codebase?	1 of 3	#14
What are the best alternatives to Aider?	1 of 4	#7
What are the best alternatives to Cursor?	1 of 4	#10

Questions you lose

question	who got named instead
What are the best AI coding assistants?	Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code
What's the best AI code editor right now?	Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf
Which AI coding assistant is best for professional developers?	Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code
What are the best free AI coding assistants?	GitHub Copilot, Gemini Code Assist, Cline
Which AI coding tool writes the most reliable code?	Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex
What's the best AI coding assistant for a solo developer building a SaaS?	Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot
What are the top AI coding assistants in 2026?	Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code
What's the best AI coding assistant for beginners learning to code?	GitHub Copilot, Cursor
Which AI coding assistant gives the best value for the money?	GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code
What's the best AI coding assistant for Python?	Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code
What's the best AI tool for writing and fixing React and Next.js code?	Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot
What's the best AI tool to review pull requests automatically?	CodeRabbit, Greptile, GitHub Copilot
What's the best AI coding assistant that works in the terminal?	Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Aider
What's the best AI coding assistant I can run locally for privacy?	Continue, Aider, Cline
What's the best open-source AI coding assistant?	Cline, Aider, OpenCode
Which AI coding tool is best for writing tests?	Cursor, Qodo, Claude Code
What's the best AI coding assistant for VS Code?	GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Cline
What's the best AI coding assistant for building mobile apps?	Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code
What are the best alternatives to GitHub Copilot?	Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf
What are the best alternatives to Claude Code?	Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Aider

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In their words

Claude“Large/legacy codebases: Augment Code has a strong reputation for context retrieval across big repos.”
Perplexity“| Augment Code | Large enterprise codebases | Focuses on architectural understanding and compliance for complex repositories.”
Claude“Augment Code — Known for strong large-codebase context retrieval.”

Closest rivals

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