AI coding assistants and agents
AI that writes, reviews and modernizes code. Evaluated by Gartner Magic Quadrant, Omdia Universe, IDC MarketScape, 2024 to 2026: 6 reports, 26 vendors. Each firm below runs newest first, with who moved since its edition before.
AI Code Assistants
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 2 editions, 2024 to 2025
2025
2025-09-15
2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants5 Leaders, 9 in other tiers
AWS
Cognition
GitHub
GitLab
Google
Changes since 2024
Qodo · Up: Niche Players to Visionaries
Tabnine · Up: Niche Players to Visionaries
IBM · Down: Challengers to Niche Players
Augment Code · New in Visionaries
Cursor · New in Challengers
Harness · New in Visionaries
JetBrains · New in Niche Players
Codeium · Dropped (was Challengers)
Refact.ai · Dropped (was Niche Players)
Sourcegraph · Dropped (was Visionaries)
2024
2024-08-19
Every vendor, year by year
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LeadersChallengersVisionariesNiche Players· not placed
AI-Augmented Code Modernization Tools (inaugural report)
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 1 edition, 2026
2026
2026-08-03
2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI-Augmented Code Modernization Tools3 Leaders, 6 in other tiers
Microsoft
Moderne
Enterprise AI Coding Agents
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 1 edition, 2026
2026
2026-05-20
2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents4 Leaders, 8 in other tiers
Anthropic
OpenAI
AI-assisted Software Development, IDE-based Tools
Omdia Universe · 1 edition, 2026
2026
2026-03-31
AI Coding and Software Engineering Technologies
IDC MarketScape · 1 edition, 2025
2025
Placements as each vendor or analyst firm publicly announced them; the tracker lists tiers only, never a report's chart or the positions inside a tier.