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AI coding tools used, top 10 in a developer survey
The AI coding tools respondents of the Stack Overflow 2026 survey said they used in the past year, ranked by share. The full top 10 at a glance.
- 1Claude Code8,030 respondents65.5%Official site
- 2GitHub Copilot7,196 respondents58.7%Official site
- 3OpenAI Codex3,620 respondents29.5%Official site
- 4Cursor3,127 respondents25.5%Official site
- 5Google Antigravity1,956 respondents16.0%Official site
- 6Gemini Code Assist1,789 respondents14.6%Official site
- 7Open Code1,662 respondents13.6%Official site
- 8JetBrains AI1,569 respondents12.8%Official site
- 9Windsurf796 respondents6.5%Official site
- 10Warp641 respondents5.2%Official site
Of the 12,255 people who answered, 65.5% said they had used Claude Code in the past year. GitHub Copilot is second at 58.7%, 6.8 percentage points behind. OpenAI Codex (29.5%) comes third, ahead of Cursor (25.5%) in fourth, and Google Antigravity is fifth at 16.0%.
Respondents could pick several tools, so the shares add up to more than 100%. This is not market share, active users, performance or satisfaction, and it does not tell a tool tried once from one used every day. The source does not say which population this question was asked of (all respondents or only AI tool users) or give the dates of the survey. In the same survey, 65.9% of all 17,464 respondents said they use AI coding assistants or agents at work.
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