When asked for the best AI coding assistant, 6 AI assistants named 4 brands between them this month. GitHub Copilot was named most often, followed by Amazon CodeWhisperer and Cursor. One brand was named by every assistant that answered: GitHub Copilot.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Amazon CodeWhisperer | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Cursor | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Tabnine | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 3 brands, in this order: GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, Amazon CodeWhisperer.
Selecting the best AI coding assistant for a small business depends on various factors such as your specific needs, budget, preferred programming languages, and project scale.
Perplexity
Named 2 brands, in this order: GitHub Copilot, Cursor.
For most small businesses, the best default choice is GitHub Copilot because it is affordable, widely supported across editors, and easy to adopt without changing your team’s workflow.
Claude
Named 4 brands, in this order: GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Tabnine, Amazon CodeWhisperer.
Here's a practical breakdown to help you choose:
Grok
Named 4 brands, in this order: GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Tabnine, Amazon CodeWhisperer.
DeepSeek
Named 2 brands, in this order: GitHub Copilot, Cursor.
The "best" AI coding assistant depends heavily on what your small business actually needs.
Cohere
Named 3 brands, in this order: GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, Amazon CodeWhisperer.
Choosing the best AI coding assistant for a small business depends on your specific needs, budget, and the programming languages or tools you use.
The questions asked
- What is the best AI coding assistant for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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