# AI coding assistants for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, November 2026 Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "AI coding assistant" and as "AI pair programming tool", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/developer/ai-coding-assistants/2026-11/enterprise **Standing:** GitHub Copilot leads with 86% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 44 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts. ## First-choice share | Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | [GitHub Copilot](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/github-copilot/index.md) | 86% | 13% | 76 | | 2 | [Amazon Q Developer](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-q-developer/index.md) | 5% | 6% | 54 | | 3 | [Gemini Code Assist](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/gemini-code-assist/index.md) | 2% | 14% | 22 | | 7 | [Tabnine](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/tabnine/index.md) | 0% | 7% | 46 | | 8 | [Claude Code](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/claude-code/index.md) | 0% | 16% | 31 | | 9 | [Sourcegraph Cody](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/sourcegraph-cody/index.md) | 0% | 6% | 17 | | 10 | [Cursor](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cursor/index.md) | 0% | 35% | 49 | | 14 | [Windsurf](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/windsurf/index.md) | 0% | 33% | 15 | | 49 | [OpenAI Codex](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/openai-codex/index.md) | 0% | 45% | 11 | Rank is by share of first choices among all 61 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels. ## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt - Claude Haiku 4.5: GitHub Copilot; alternatives Augment Code, Superblocks, Tabnine - GPT-5.4 mini: GitHub Copilot; alternatives Amazon Q Developer, Cursor - Gemini 3.5 Flash: no first choice; alternatives Amazon Q Developer, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Tabnine - Perplexity Sonar: GitHub Copilot; alternatives Augment Code, Claude Code, Tabnine - Grok 4.20: GitHub Copilot; alternatives Amazon Q Developer, Gemini Code Assist, Tabnine - Mistral Small: GitHub Copilot; alternatives Augment Code, Claude Code - DeepSeek V4 Flash: GitHub Copilot; alternatives Claude Code - Llama 4 Maverick: GitHub Copilot; alternatives Claude Code, Cursor, Superblocks - Qwen 3.7 Flash: Amazon Q Developer, GitHub Copilot; alternatives Cursor, Tabnine - Kimi K2: GitHub Copilot; alternatives Amazon Q Developer, Claude Code, Tabnine - GLM 4.7 FlashX: GitHub Copilot; alternatives Amazon Q Developer, ChatGPT, Tabnine - MiniMax M2.5: GitHub Copilot; alternatives Amazon Q Developer, ChatGPT, Cursor, Tabnine - GPT-6 Luna: GitHub Copilot; alternatives Claude Code, Cursor, GitLab Duo Agent Platform - Muse Glimmer 30B: GitHub Copilot; alternatives Amazon Q Developer, Tabnine ## Sources the answers cite 74 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers: - github.com: 27 answers, 38 citations - docs.github.com: 25 answers, 63 citations - gane.ai/index: 20 answers, 29 citations - superblocks.com: 17 answers, 21 citations - augmentcode.com: 14 answers, 21 citations - parse.gl: 13 answers, 13 citations - wwt.com: 13 answers, 13 citations - sourcegraph.com: 12 answers, 21 citations Pages named in the most answers: - https://gane.ai/index/it/developer/ai-coding-assistants/enterprise (14 answers) - https://parse.gl/markets/enterprise-ai-coding-assistants (13 answers) - https://gane.ai/index/it/developer/ai-coding-assistants/2026-09/enterprise (12 answers) - https://perceptis.ai/blog/best-enterprise-ai-software-in-2026-top-tools-by-category (10 answers) - https://superblocks.com/blog/best-ai-coding-tools (10 answers) - https://superblocks.com/blog/best-ai-coding-assistants (9 answers) - https://jellyfish.co/library/how-to-choose-an-ai-coding-assistant (8 answers) - https://wwt.com/wwt-research/how-to-securely-implement-ai-coding-assistants-across-the-enterprise (8 answers) - https://sourcegraph.com/blog/best-ai-coding-assistant (7 answers) - https://bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/KI/ANSSI_BSI_AI_Coding_Assistants.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=5 (6 answers) ## Warned against - Cursor: 17 of 49 labels negative. "can send code to third-party providers. Risks include data used for training, indirect prompt injection, and lack of enterprise-grade isolation." (Grok 4.20, negative prompt) - GitHub Copilot: 10 of 76 labels negative. "Consumer or individual subscriptions—including personal GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or similar accounts—because they sit outside corporate SSO" (Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt) - ChatGPT: 5 of 8 labels negative. "Strictly Avoid: Unmanaged "Free" and Personal Accounts ... Sending proprietary code to these accounts is a direct violation of most corporate governance policies." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt) - Windsurf: 5 of 15 labels negative. "the free tier lacks the contractual guarantees (SLAs, Data Processing Agreements) that large enterprises require" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt) ## Movement since October 2026 Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat. Same leader: GitHub Copilot at 86%. - Tabnine: 9% to 0%, −9. Inside the floor by 2 points · rank 2 → 7 of 61. - GitHub Copilot: 82% to 86%, +4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 1 of 61, unchanged. - Amazon Q Developer: 7% to 5%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 3 → 2 of 61. - Gemini Code Assist: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 5 → 3 of 61. - Claude Code: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 14 → 8 of 61. - Sourcegraph Cody: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 7 → 9 of 61. - Cursor: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 52 → 10 of 61. - Augment Code: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 6 → 11 of 61. - Windsurf: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 8 → 14 of 61. - OpenAI Codex: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 33 → 49 of 61. ## Record - Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology - License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.