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The same method, pointed at a question people are asking right now.
Weekly monitorBrand index
Re-measured automatically every Monday: three questions, each asked once in Chinese and once in English, six cards in matched pairs — each card is one dated measurement.
AI toolingBrand index
For readers who evaluate AI engineering. This group is not on the weekly schedule: it is re-run on demand with exactly the same method as every other ranking, and the date on each card is the date of that measurement.
Scenario collectionsMention rate
One model panel, one day, one category split into several scenario questions. Each scenario is its own cell with its own candidate pool, so the cells are not merged into a single ranking.
AI coding agents · scenario rankings
Measured 2026-09-22 · 12-seat model panel · 10 scenarios · methodology #2 v2026-09-22.1
- Category-level: most recommended AI coding agentsMost Popular AI Coding Agents416 valid samples
- Inside an IDE / editorMost Popular AI Coding Agents Inside an IDE415 valid samples
- Terminal / command-line agentsMost Popular Terminal-Based AI Coding Agents410 valid samples
- App from a plain-language promptMost Popular AI App Builders from a Plain-Language Prompt177 valid samples
- Cloud-side asynchronous agents (hand off a task, get a PR)Most Popular Cloud-Based Asynchronous AI Coding Agents176 valid samples
- Orchestrating several coding agents in parallelMost Popular Tools for Orchestrating Multiple AI Coding Agents170 valid samples
- Monthly coding-agent subscription plansMost Popular LLM API Subscription Plan Providers (a plan here means a developer-facing monthly subscription or prepaid quota of model API calls, such as coding plans or token plans)178 valid samples
- Attribute probe: Chinese-language teams / usable in mainland ChinaMost Popular AI Coding Agents for Chinese-Language Teams176 valid samples
- Attribute probe: free / open-source / student plansMost Popular Free or Open-Source AI Coding Agents173 valid samples
- Boundary probe: personal agent runtimes (not in the grid)Most Popular Self-Hosted Personal AI Agents174 valid samples