--- description: Awareness, active use, conversion and task-level satisfaction for every major AI developer tool. Unbranded survey, and every figure carries its sample size. title: "AI Developer Tools Benchmark: where your tool stands | SlashData" --- [Skip to main content](https://go.slashdata.co/en/ai-dev-tools-benchmark#main) AI Developer Tools Benchmark # Where your AI developer tool stands against the competition The benchmark tracks the same measures for every major AI developer tool, wave after wave: awareness, active use, conversion, task-level satisfaction and trust in agent autonomy. This is the third wave. Latest wave out early October 2026 [Book time with an analyst](https://go.slashdata.co/en/ai-dev-tools-benchmark#request-report) ## The 19 tools in the benchmark GitHub Copilot OpenAI Codex Claude Code GGoogle Antigravity Cursor GitLab Duo JetBrains AI Assistant v0 by Vercel Replit Agent Mistral Vibe / Code KKiro Cline DDevin / Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) FFactory (Droid) Trae Amp (formerly Sourcegraph Amp) Aaider JJunie by JetBrains TTabnine ### GitHub Copilot converts nearly half of aware developers into active users AI Developer Tools: Conversion Benchmark % of professional developers using AI developer tools. Base: 2,063 professional developers using AI developer tools, Q3 2026. Currently using Aware but not currently using Conversion rate Using Aware Convert Top 3 vendors GitHub Copilot 46% 50% 48% OpenAI Codex 38% 60% 39% Claude Code 38% 60% 39% --- Google Antigravity 24% 65% 27% Cursor 26% 65% 25% GitLab Duo 22% 72% 14% JetBrains AI Assistant 12% 72% 11% v0 by Vercel 9% 64% 10% Replit Agent 7% 65% 7% Mistral Vibe / Code 5% 68% 7% Kiro 5% 64% 7% Cline 5% 65% 6% Devin / Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) 5% 67% 6% Factory (Droid) 5% 60% 7% Trae 4% 60% 7% Amp (formerly Sourcegraph Amp) 4% 61% 6% aider 4% 59% 6% Junie by JetBrains 4% 69% 5% Tabnine 4% 63% 6% **2,063** professional developers using AI developer tools, behind the productivity and trust figures in the latest wave **19** tools benchmarked in the latest wave **3rd** wave, tracked since Q4 2025 ## Who it is for ### Product marketing and competitive intelligence At a company whose tool is measured. Your own standing against every competitor on one questionnaire, and numbers that hold up in the room, because the survey is unbranded and every figure carries its base. ### Developer relations and developer marketing The gap between the developers who know your tool and the developers who use it, and what they do with it once they adopt it, task by task. ## What these numbers let you do Our share moved. Is that real? Answered by awareness, use and conversion for every tool, same questions, same window. So you can take the movement upstairs with its base printed beside it. Is our problem reach or preference? Answered by the share of developers who know your tool and currently use it. So you can put next quarter's budget into awareness or into the product, and know which. Which tasks do we claim, and which do we concede? Answered by task-level satisfaction, per tool. So you can write positioning on the tasks developers say you win. How far can our agent messaging go this year? Answered by agent autonomy today, and what holds it back. So you can make a claim the market is ready to believe. Are we a habit or an experiment? Answered by workflow reliance, by role and by team type. So you can see whether developers stayed after the trial. Who are we losing aware developers to? Answered by conversion, tool against tool. So you can see which competitor wins the developers who already know your tool. Which competitor is gaining on us? Answered by movement in use across waves. So you can spot a rising competitor early and respond while the gap is small. Which developers should our next campaign reach? Answered by use and awareness, by role and by team type. So you can aim the campaign at the roles and teams where your tool has the most room to grow. In the latest wave, the strongest tool turned 48% of the developers who knew it into developers who used it. Most tools converted fewer than one in five. Base: 2,063 professional developers using AI developer tools, Q3 2026. ## Why this methodology is unique - **The survey is unbranded.** Respondents are never told who commissioned it. - **Boosted samples never enter a share figure.** Extra respondents recruited to study one tool are used for that analysis alone. - **The methodology is public,** so anyone in your organisation can check it without asking us. [Read the methodology](https://www.slashdata.co/methodology). ## Who is SlashData SlashData helps product, platform and engineering leaders understand how software development is changing in the AI era. For over 20 years, we have helped many of the world's leading technology companies understand developers, developer ecosystems, and the tools and workflows shaping the future of software. We combine large-scale quantitative research, qualitative insight and long-term market tracking. ### Trusted by the top technology companies From hyperscalers and chip vendors to open source foundations. Microsoft Meta Google NVIDIA Salesforce OpenRouter Red Hat Mozilla CNCF Progress Software Twilio Okta ## Book time with an analyst Tell us what you are deciding. An analyst behind the benchmark will walk you through what it covers and the sample behind each figure. [Book time with an analyst](https://go.slashdata.co/en/ai-dev-tools-benchmark#request-report) × ## Book time with an analyst Tell us what you are deciding. An analyst behind the benchmark will walk you through what it covers and the sample behind each figure. SlashData. Developer research for over 20 years. [slashdata.co](https://www.slashdata.co/)