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Last year GitHub Copilot was the top AI coding agent. This year it lost the crown.
The 5 most-used AI coding agents of 2026, from the new Stack Overflow Developer Survey (this ranks use, not quality):
1. Claude Code 65.5%
2. GitHub Copilot 58.7%
3. OpenAI Codex 29.5%
4. Cursor 25.5%
5. Google Antigravity 16.0%
Shares of the 12,255 developers who answered "Which coding agents have you used in the past year?" (more than one answer allowed: all 33 agents add up to 294%, almost three per developer).
Sources:
- Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, AI coding agents (released 6 Oct 2026, ODbL 1.0): https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/ai/data/ai-code-agent
- Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025, AI agent out-of-the-box tools (asked of 8,323 developers who use AI agents; Copilot 67.9%, Claude Code 40.8%): https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai
- Google Antigravity announced 18 Nov 2025 (SD Times): https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/google-announces-agentic-development-platform-google-antigravity/
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Music: Hypnothis by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hypnothis_(ISRC_USUAN1100634).mp3)
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Last year, GitHub Copilot was the top AI coding agent. This year, it lost the crown. Twelve thousand developers answered the new Stack Overflow survey. Guess number one before I show you. Number five. Google Antigravity. Sixteen percent, and it's not even a year old. Number four. Cursor. Everyone talks about it, but only one in four uses it. Number three. OpenAI Codex, almost thirty percent. Number two. Copilot. Fifty-nine percent. Last year's king. And number one. Claude Code. Sixty-six percent. Nearly two in every three. Plot twist. That adds up to way more than a hundred, because the average developer uses almost three.