Which coding agents actually stuck? Reddit poll puts Cursor 8.75, Claude Code 8.4, Windsurf 8.05
rcleffke · reddit · 2026-10-27
A Redditor who built a free rankings site for AI agent tools shares its coding agents category: Cursor leads at 8.75, Claude Code 8.4, Windsurf 8.05, with Aider, GitHub Copilot and Continue behind. Claude Code shipped 2.1.310 on Oct 23 and 2.1.311 on Oct 26 while holding its 8.4 score. Notably, Aider scores highest on voice coding fit but its latest tracked release is from August 2025, hurting its freshness score.
The author's take: the split is less about which tool is "best" and more about where you work — IDE-first folks settle on Cursor/Windsurf, while terminal users and those handing off repo-wide tasks lean toward Claude Code/Aider. The thread invites people to share which agent survived their honeymoon period.
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