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`AI Coding Landscape`

July 2025 (Updated October 2025)

Note: Since everything is moving so fast, I wanted a create a knowledge framework about AI coding models and the associated agent, IDE, and software tooling ecosystem used for AI-assisted coding and/or vibe coding. This page continues to evolve as a market view of what is being mentioned and is an obvious ongoing work in progress.

`Listing AI coding agents, CLIs, IDEs, app builders, open source versions, devtools, and leaderboards`

`AI Coding Agents/CLI Tools`

OpenAI Codex - Cloud coding agent toolkit

GitHub Copilot - Pair-programming assistant

Claude Code - Anthropic terminal agent

Gemini Code Assist - Google AI coding assistant

Jules - Google Asynchronous Coding Agent

Cognition - Devin - An autonomous AI software engineer that can write, run and test code

Amazon Q Developer - AWS code-gen & refactor

Cursor AI - Agent baked into Cursor IDE

Goose - Model + agent API

Amp - Sourcegraph coding agent (CLI / VS Code)

Reflection AI - Asimov - Enterprise code research agent

Conductor - Run a bunch of Claude Codes in parallel

Scout - Calls itself the most curious coding and research agent

Blackbox AI - New Autonomous AI Coding Agent

Forge Code - An AI software engineering agent that runs in your terminal

Factory - Delegate software development tasks to agents called Droids

Replit Agent - Set up and create apps from scratch, works with any framework

JetBrains Junie - Your smart coding agent

Slate - A purpose built agent designed to work with you for long and hard coding tasks

GitHub Copilot CLI - The power of GitHub Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal

Codebuff - Works in your terminal to help you write and deeply understand your code

CTO.new - Completely free AI code agent

`Open Source AI Coding Agents/CLI Tools`

Aider - Terminal pair-programming

Continue - IDE extensions + CLI

Cline - Autonomous IDE agent

Roo Code - Cline fork, VS Code extension

Kilo Code - AI coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains

Gemini CLI - An open-source AI agent for Google Gemini

OpenAI Codex CLI - Open‑source command‑line agent for OpenAI

OpenHands - Multi-tool coding agent

Qwen Code - A command-line AI workflow tool for Qwen3-Coder

Ruler - Central AI agent rule registry

OpenCode - OSS terminal assistant

Vibe Kanban - Orchestrate multiple agents

Charm - A charming terminal agent, your new coding bestie

Goose - An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions

DeepCode - Transforms research papers and natural language into production-ready code

`Desktop IDEs`

Visual Studio Code

IntelliJ IDEA / PyCharm / WebStorm

Xcode

Eclipse, NetBeans

Atom - Atom community fork

Blackbox IDE

`Cloud & AI‑Powered IDEs`

Cursor - AI-first VS Code fork

Windsurf - Agentic IDE, advanced AI coding assistant for developers and enterprises

Zed - High-performance Rust editor with AI chat

Amp - VS Code Extension

Trae - ByteDance AI IDE

Augment Code - Developer AI platform that helps you understand code, debug issues, and ship faster

Warp - An agentic development environment

Kiro - [Waitlist] Helps you do your best work by bringing structure to AI coding with spec-driven development

`AI App Builders`

Bolt - Browser-based AI app builder

Lovable - Chat-to-app builder

Replit - Cloud IDE w/ Ghostwriter

v0.dev - Vercel text-to-UI generator

Mocha - YC-backed no-code app builder

Nectry - Responsible vibe coding for the enterprise

Reflex - From prompt to production, build and deploy Python apps

Superblocks - Build secure internal apps with AI

vybe - Build internal apps 10X faster

Emergent - YC-backed, build ambitious apps with agentic vibe-coding

orchids v2 - YC-backed, the worlds first AI Full Stack Engineer

Same - YC-backed, build fullstack web apps by prompting

Aura - Generate beautiful designs in seconds and export to HTML or Figma

21st.dev - Build products that reflect the team's own taste

Base44 - Lets you build fully-functional apps in minutes with just your words

VibeFlow - YC backed, transform your AI-generated frontend mockups into fully functional applications

Blink - Turn any idea into a beautiful, working app in seconds

a0 - YC backed, ship mobile apps to the App Store and Google Play with AI

Anything - Create powerful apps & websites by chatting with AI

Rocket - Think It. Type It. Launch It.

`Mobile AI App Builders`

Rork - Builds complete, cross-platform mobile apps using AI and React Native

Vibecode - Create native apps in seconds with AI

bitrig - Build apps for your phone, on your phone

Spielwork - The Tiktok for vibecoded mini games!

Gizmo - A new way to make playful, personal software—right from your phone

Hivemind - The fastest & easiest way to chat & code with any AI in one app

Bloom - YC backed, go from idea to native mobile app on your phone without writing a single line of code

Vibe Code Go - YC backed, code from your phone, a mobile app for software engineers

`Open Source AI App Builders`

Dyad - A local, open-source AI app builder

Open Lovable - Clone and recreate any website as a modern React app in seconds

bolt.diy - Bolt.new OSS version, AI-powered full-stack web dev for NodeJS based apps, choose the LLM you use for each prompt

app.build - An open-source AI agent that builds full-stack apps

ToolJet - An open-source low-code framework to build and deploy internal tools

Adorable - Another open source Lovable version

Vercel - OSS Vibe Coding Platform

Cloudflare VibeSDK - Run an entire vibe coding platform end-to-end, with just one click

`Other Useful AI DevTools`

Ollama - Chat & build with open models

LM Studio - Run gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma, DeepSeek on your computer

Open WebUI - Self-hosted AI platform designed to operate entirely offline

SillyTavern - A locally installed UI for text, image, and voice LLMs

Unsloth - An open-source framework for LLM fine-tuning and reinforcement learning

n8n - Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams

Firecrawl - Turn websites into LLM-ready data

Agents.md - A simple, open format for guiding coding agents, used by over 20k open-source projects

Vercel AI Gateway - A gateway to access hundreds of models with zero markup on tokens (including BYOK)

OpenRouter - A unified API providing access to hundreds of AI models through a single endpoint

Fabric - An open-source modular system for solving specific problems using crowdsourced AI prompts that can be used anywhere

Vibetunnel - VibeTunnel proxies your terminals right into the browser, so you can vibe-code anywhere

`Coding Leaderboards`

SWE-Bench Pro (Commercial Dataset) - A new benchmark designed to provide a rigorous and realistic evaluation of AI agents for software engineering

Aider - Aider polyglot coding leaderboard

SWE-bench - SWE-bench evaluates LLM performance on real world software issues collected from GitHub

SWE-rebench - A Continuously Evolving and Decontaminated Benchmark for Software Engineering LLMs

OpenRouter - Model, Market Share, Use Case Categories, and App Rankings

Terminal-Bench - A benchmark measuring the capabilities of AI agents in a terminal environment

PR Arena - Software engineering agents head to head

Multi-SWE-bench - A Multilingual Benchmark for Issue Resolving

SWE-DEV - Evaluating and Training Autonomous Feature-Driven Software Development

LiveCodeBench - Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code

BigCodeArena - A human-in-the-loop platform for evaluating code through execution

Modu Merge Rate Leaderboard - Real-world success rates: Ranking top coding agents by their pull request merge performance on Modu

OpenBench Coding - An open-source framework for standardized, reproducible benchmarking of large language models (LLMs)

`Coding Model Timeline (foundation / open‑weight / frontier)`

Noteworthy releases, some entries may be updated model versions or model families.

`September 2025`

GLM-4.6 - Z.ai, features a longer context window, superior coding performance, advanced reasoning, more capable agents, and refined writing versus GLM-4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5 - Anthropic, the strongest model for building complex agents, the best model at using computers, it shows substantial gains on tests of reasoning and math

Qwen3-Max-Instruct - Alibaba Cloud, the official release further elevates its capabilities — particularly in coding and agent performance

GPT‑5-Codex - OpenAI, a version of GPT‑5 further optimized for agentic coding in Codex and trained with a focus on real-world software engineering work

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 - Moonshot AI, updated SOTA model with improved agentic and frontend capabilities and increased context length

`August 2025`

GPT-5 - OpenAI, flagship model

GPT-5-mini - OpenAI, fast/cost efficient

GPT-5-nano - OpenAI, faster/cost efficient

Claude Opus 4.1 - Anthropic, a drop-in replacement for Opus 4

Mistral Medium 3.1 - Mistral AI, aka Mistral-Medium-2508 - enterprise-grade model excels in coding tasks

Grok Code Fast 1 - xAI, a speedy and economical reasoning model that excels at agentic coding, efficient code generation, and execution

`July 2025`

Qwen3-Coder - Alibaba Cloud, agentic code model

Qwen3-Coder-Flash - Alibaba Cloud, streamlined non thinking agentic code model

Kimi K2 - Moonshot AI, 1 T-param MoE

GLM-4.5 - Z.ai, An open-source LLM designed for intelligent agents

Codestral 25.08 - Mistral AI, code model for high-precision fill-in-the-middle (FIM) completion

Devstral Medium 2507 - Mistral × All Hands AI, high-quality and cost-effective model

Devstral Small 1.1 2507 - Mistral × All Hands AI, agentic model

Grok 4 - xAI, trained with reinforcement learning for native tool use, including code interpreters, making it highly capable for coding and advanced reasoning tasks

`June 2025`

Gemini 2.5 Pro - Google DeepMind, flagship model

Gemini 2.5 Flash - Google DeepMind, fast/cost efficient with thinking capabilities

`May 2025`

Claude Opus 4 - Anthropic, pushes the frontier in coding, agentic search, and creative writing

Claude Sonnet 4 - Anthropic, improves on Claude Sonnet 3.7 across a variety of areas, especially coding

DeepSeek-R1-0528 - DeepSeek, OSS reasoning model

`April 2025`

o3 - OpenAI, preview reasoning model

o4-mini - OpenAI, compact model

GPT-4.1 - OpenAI, flagship model with 1M token context window

Llama 4 Maverick - Meta, code-tuned model

Llama 4 Scout - Meta, open-weight model

Mellum - JetBrains, 4-B param OSS model

`March 2025`

DeepSeek-V3-0324 - DeepSeek, improved V3 version

`February 2025`

Gemini 2.0 Flash - Google DeepMind, multimodal for high-volume high-frequency tasks

Claude 3.7 Sonnet - Anthropic, first hybrid reasoning model and state-of-the art for coding

Grok 3 - xAI, coding capable model

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