# VS Code: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/vs-code

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Enterprise AI assistants](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/enterprise-ai-assistants/index.md) | 0% | 139 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "flaws in OpenAI's Codex and Microsoft's VS Code remain unpatched" (Muse Glimmer 30B, Enterprise AI)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named VS Code, from 2 of the 3 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- theregister.com: 2
- akamai.com: 1
- allianz-fuer-cybersicherheit.de: 1
- aricoma.com: 1
- arxiv.org: 1
- biztechmagazine.com: 1
- checkmarx.com: 1
- cursor.com: 1
- cyber.gov.au: 1
- daily.dev: 1

### Pages cited

- https://theregister.com/security/2026/10/29/researchers-find-bugs-in-5-ai-developer-tools-with-openai-and-microsoft-flaws-still-unpatched/5306508: 2
- https://akamai.com/blog/ai/chatbot-security: 1
- https://akamai.com/blog/security/2026/apr/cursorjacking-every-cursor-user-is-vulnerable-to-api-key-theft-by-rogue-extensions: 1
- https://akamai.com/site/en/documents/state-of-the-internet/2026/enterprise-ai-risk-report.pdf: 1
- https://allianz-fuer-cybersicherheit.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/KI/ANSSI_BSI_AI_Coding_Assistants.pdf: 1
- https://aricoma.com/solutions/enterprise-applications/artificial-intelligence-and-big-data/ai-assistants-for-business-applications/faq-ai-assistants-in-enterprises-security-data-and-governance: 1
- https://arxiv.org/html/2502.18468: 1
- https://arxiv.org/html/2509.20388v1: 1

## 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.