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Roo Code ranks #12 of 34 in ai coding assistants in the week of 12 October 2026, with a visibility score of 7 across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. It was named in 11% of the answers we sampled.

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Roo Code shows up in 11 of 70 answers across the AI coding assistants category, landing an overall score of 7 out of 100. Claude rates it highest at 23, Perplexity gives it 4, while ChatGPT and Gemini score it 0. Its best showing is on "What's the best AI coding assistant for VS Code?", where it's named in 2 of 3 answers. It gets a single mention each for local/privacy use, whole-codebase agents, top 2026 tools, and value for money. It never comes up for reliability, testing, beginners, or pull-request review questions.

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Who's talking about you

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	0	0% of answers
Claude	22	35% of answers	#6.0
Gemini	0	0% of answers
Perplexity	3	5% of answers	#9.0

Questions you win

question	named in	best spot
What are the best AI coding agents that can work across a whole codebase?	2 of 3	#8
What's the best AI tool for writing and fixing React and Next.js code?	1 of 3	#5
What are the best free AI coding assistants?	1 of 3	#8
Which AI coding assistant gives the best value for the money?	1 of 3	#8
What are the best alternatives to Windsurf?	1 of 3	#12
What's the best open-source AI coding assistant?	1 of 4	#3
What's the best AI coding assistant for a solo developer building a SaaS?	1 of 4	#5
What's the best AI coding assistant for VS Code?	1 of 4	#5
What are the best alternatives to Cursor?	1 of 4	#8
What are the best alternatives to Aider?	1 of 4	#11
What are the best alternatives to Claude Code?	1 of 4	#12

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
Which AI coding tool writes the most reliable code?	Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex
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
What's the best AI coding assistant for Python?	Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code
Which AI coding assistant is best for large codebases?	Claude Code, Cursor, Sourcegraph Cody
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
Which AI coding tool is best for writing tests?	Cursor, Qodo, Claude Code
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

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In their words

Claude“Cline and Roo Code — open source, BYO-API-key, agentic editing with plan/act modes.”
Perplexity“| Cline / Roo Code | Customizable, model-agnostic workflows | Can inspect a repository, execute commands, edit files, and let users control permissions and model choice.”
Claude“Cline / Roo Code — Open-source VS Code extensions with full agentic capability.”

Closest rivals

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