JetBrains AI Assistant vs Roo Code

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

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JetBrains AI Assistant edges out Roo Code overall, with a score of 11 versus 7 and mentions in 15 of 70 answers compared to Roo Code's 11 of 70. JetBrains AI Assistant shows up most for professional developers and Python questions, named in 3 of 4 answers each, while Roo Code's strongest showing is for VS Code, named in 2 of 3 answers. Head-to-head, JetBrains AI Assistant leads on 6 questions, Roo Code leads on 5, and they tie on 9. By assistant, Claude rates Roo Code higher (23) than JetBrains AI Assistant (14), while ChatGPT and Gemini favor JetBrains AI Assistant.

Head to head

metric	JetBrains AI Assistant	Roo Code
score	11	7
questions won	7	10

By assistant

JetBrains AI Assistant

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	17	30% of answers	#6.2
Claude	14	30% of answers	#8.2
Gemini	11	20% of answers	#6.0
Perplexity	2	5% of answers	#8.0

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 JetBrains AI Assistant gets named for

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Only Roo Code gets named for

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