Augment Code vs Roo Code

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-14

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Augment Code and Roo Code both sit low in overall scores, at 6 and 7 out of 100. Augment Code shows up in 7 of 70 answers, with its best showing on whole-codebase work, named in 3 of 4 answers, and a clean 3 of 3 for large codebases. Roo Code appears more often overall, 11 of 70 answers, doing best for VS Code, named in 2 of 3 answers. Head to head, Roo Code is named more often in 8 questions versus 2 for Augment Code, with 10 questions tied. Gemini rates Augment Code highest at 9, while Claude favors Roo Code at 23.

Head to head

metric	Augment Code	Roo Code
score	6	7
questions won	3	10

By assistant

Augment Code

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	8	10% of answers	#3.0
Claude	3	5% of answers	#5.0
Gemini	9	20% of answers	#10.0
Perplexity	7	10% of answers	#4.5

Roo Code

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	0	0% of answers
Claude	23	50% of answers	#9.1
Gemini	0	0% of answers
Perplexity	4	5% of answers	#3.0

Where they differ

Only Augment Code gets named for

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Only Roo Code gets named for

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