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Best AI coding tools, ranked by developers on Hacker News
The main table covers tools with at least 100 opinions. Less-discussed tools are listed separately, because a high score from a few dozen people is a weaker signal.
Widely used tools
| # | Tool | Type | Approval | Last 90 days | Opinions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pi Open source | Terminal agent | 84% | 80% | 423 |
| 2 | OpenAI Codex OpenAI | Terminal agent | 69% | 63% | 2,013 |
| 3 | OpenCode Open source | Terminal agent | 66% | 55% | 780 |
| 4 | Zed Zed Industries | Editor | 59% | 57% | 457 |
| 5 | Claude Code Anthropic | Terminal agent | 54% | 51% | 3,026 |
| 6 | Cursor Anysphere | AI IDE | 55% | 53% | 766 |
| 7 | Antigravity Google | AI IDE | 45% | 42% | 301 |
| 8 | GitHub Copilot GitHub | IDE extension | 42% | 38% | 659 |
| 9 | Gemini CLI Google | Terminal agent | 29% | 25% | 211 |
Less-discussed tools
Fewer than 100 opinions each. Promising, but treat the scores as early.
| # | Tool | Type | Approval | Last 90 days | Opinions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Amp Sourcegraph | Terminal agent | 90% | – | 25 |
| 11 | Crush Charm | Terminal agent | 77% | – | 26 |
| 12 | Roo Code Open source | IDE extension | 79% | – | 17 |
| 13 | Cline Open source | IDE extension | 73% | – | 35 |
| 14 | JetBrains Junie JetBrains | IDE agent | 60% | 33% | 53 |
| 15 | Kilo Code Open source | IDE extension | 63% | – | 31 |
| 16 | Aider Open source | Terminal agent | 60% | – | 34 |
| 17 | Kiro AWS | AI IDE | 59% | – | 38 |
| 18 | Windsurf Cognition | AI IDE | 58% | – | 36 |
| 19 | Qwen Code Alibaba | Terminal agent | 63% | – | 19 |
| 20 | Replit Agent Replit | App builder | 60% | – | 15 |
| 21 | Lovable Lovable | App builder | 45% | 46% | 29 |
| 22 | Devin Cognition | Cloud agent | 28% | – | 16 |