DevOps Tools
Questions 7Top 5 of 145 brandsScore
Subcategory
Code Editors & IDEs
This index adds up the scores of 8 questions. 113 brands are ranked.
- Edition
- Nov 12, 2026
- Methodology
- v5.0
- Panel
- 6 AI surfaces
AI Visibility Ranking
Brands across every question in this category, ordered by GenRank score.
#BrandScore
- 1Visual Studio Code593.9
- 2Cursor308.2
- 3Zed252.4
- 4IntelliJ IDEA227.9
- 5PyCharm168.9
- 6Neovim150.8
- 7WebStorm149.1
- 8Windsurf133.1
- 9Sublime Text127.6
- 10Thonny111.4
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- 11JetBrains106.0
- 12Notepad++93.1
- 13GitHub Copilot92.8
- 14PyCharm Community Edition92.4
- 15Ghostty76.3
- 16Visual Studio75.3
- 17Eclipse73.1
- 18Xcode71.7
- 19iTerm269.7
- 20Android Studio62.8
- 21WezTerm62.6
- 22Warp59.3
- 23Jupyter Notebook57.3
- 24Windows Terminal56.5
- 25IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition56.1
- 26NetBeans54.1
- 27Kitty50.3
- 28JetBrains IDEs49.4
- 29tmux45.6
- 30PowerShell44.6
- 31Replit44.1
- 32Vim43.7
- 33Alacritty41.1
- 34Microsoft40.8
- 35Claude Code39.4
- 36Command Prompt39.1
- 37zsh36.8
- 38BlueJ35.5
- 39IDLE34.1
- 40GNU Emacs32.9
- 41Rider32.3
- 42JetBrains AI Assistant31.0
- 43Fish (product)27.3
- 44Helix (text editor)26.6
- 45Zellij26.1
- 46CLion24.5
- 47Code::Blocks23.3
- 48Anaconda Distribution22.5
- 49Spyder (Python IDE)22.2
- 50VSCodium21.9
- 1Visual Studio Code593.9
- 2Cursor308.2
- 3Zed252.4
- 4IntelliJ IDEA227.9
- 5PyCharm168.9
- 6Neovim150.8
- 7WebStorm149.1
- 8Windsurf133.1
- 9Sublime Text127.6
- 10Thonny111.4
- 11JetBrains106.0
- 12Notepad++93.1
- 13GitHub Copilot92.8
- 14PyCharm Community Edition92.4
- 15Ghostty76.3
- 16Visual Studio75.3
- 17Eclipse73.1
- 18Xcode71.7
- 19iTerm269.7
- 20Android Studio62.8
- 21WezTerm62.6
- 22Warp59.3
- 23Jupyter Notebook57.3
- 24Windows Terminal56.5
- 25IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition56.1
- 26NetBeans54.1
- 27Kitty50.3
- 28JetBrains IDEs49.4
- 29tmux45.6
- 30PowerShell44.6
- 31Replit44.1
- 32Vim43.7
- 33Alacritty41.1
- 34Microsoft40.8
- 35Claude Code39.4
- 36Command Prompt39.1
- 37zsh36.8
- 38BlueJ35.5
- 39IDLE34.1
- 40GNU Emacs32.9
- 41Rider32.3
- 42JetBrains AI Assistant31.0
- 43Fish (product)27.3
- 44Helix (text editor)26.6
- 45Zellij26.1
- 46CLion24.5
- 47Code::Blocks23.3
- 48Anaconda Distribution22.5
- 49Spyder (Python IDE)22.2
- 50VSCodium21.9
Top 50 of 113
The GenRank score sums each brand’s question-level visibility inside this category. Higher means AI names the brand more often and earlier. It is not bounded, so compare brands within one category, not across categories. Methodology
The questions behind this index
8Each question with its top three brands by GenRank score and how many brands its answers named.
Rank trend
Rank trends are drawn once two weekly editions under the same methodology exist. Only the first edition is in so far.
Named by surface
Each cell: of the surface's 8 answers, how many named the brand. Darker means named more often.
- Window
- Oct 18, 2026 ~ Nov 8, 2026
| Brand |  Google AI Overviews |  ChatGPT |  Claude |  Gemini | Google AI Mode |  Microsoft Copilot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Visual Studio Code | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| 2Cursor | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| 3Zed | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| 4IntelliJ IDEA | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 5PyCharm | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| 6Neovim | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| 7WebStorm | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 8Windsurf | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 9Sublime Text | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 10Thonny | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 11JetBrains | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 12Notepad++ | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13GitHub Copilot | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 14PyCharm Community Edition | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 15Ghostty | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Named alongside
Brands named in the same answers in the last four weeks. Circle size: answers naming the brand. Line width: answers naming both.
- Answers naming the brand
- 4
- 10
- 50
- Answers naming both
- 1
- 29
- Answers naming the brand
- 4
- 10
- 50
- Answers naming both
- 1
- 29
| Brand | Answers naming the brand | Named alongside |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Studio Code | 50 | Zed (29), Cursor (29), Neovim (22) |
| Cursor | 29 | Visual Studio Code (29), Zed (23), PyCharm (17) |
| Zed | 29 | Visual Studio Code (29), Cursor (23), Neovim (22) |
| IntelliJ IDEA | 23 | Visual Studio Code (22), Cursor (14), PyCharm (14) |
| PyCharm | 21 | Visual Studio Code (21), Cursor (17), IntelliJ IDEA (14) |
| Neovim | 22 | Zed (22), Visual Studio Code (22), Cursor (17) |
| WebStorm | 18 | Visual Studio Code (18), Zed (15), Cursor (15) |
| Windsurf | 15 | Visual Studio Code (15), Cursor (15), Zed (13) |
| Sublime Text | 16 | Visual Studio Code (16), Zed (14), Neovim (12) |
| Thonny | 13 | Visual Studio Code (13), PyCharm Community Edition (8), PyCharm (7) |
| JetBrains | 11 | Visual Studio Code (11), Cursor (8), PyCharm (7) |
| Notepad++ | 12 | Visual Studio Code (12), Zed (11), Neovim (10) |
| GitHub Copilot | 12 | Visual Studio Code (12), Cursor (12), Zed (10) |
| PyCharm Community Edition | 12 | Visual Studio Code (12), Thonny (8), IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (7) |
| Ghostty | 6 | WezTerm (6), Kitty (6), Windows Terminal (6) |
| Visual Studio | 10 | Visual Studio Code (10), Zed (9), Sublime Text (9) |
| Eclipse | 7 | IntelliJ IDEA (7), Visual Studio Code (6), NetBeans (6) |
| Xcode | 10 | Visual Studio Code (10), Zed (9), Sublime Text (8) |
| iTerm2 | 6 | Ghostty (6), WezTerm (6), Kitty (6) |
| Android Studio | 8 | Visual Studio Code (8), Xcode (8), Zed (7) |
| WezTerm | 6 | Ghostty (6), Kitty (6), Windows Terminal (6) |
| Warp | 5 | Ghostty (5), WezTerm (5), Kitty (5) |
| Jupyter Notebook | 6 | Visual Studio Code (6), PyCharm (5), Thonny (5) |
| Windows Terminal | 6 | Ghostty (6), WezTerm (6), Kitty (6) |
| IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition | 8 | Visual Studio Code (8), PyCharm Community Edition (7), Zed (4) |
| NetBeans | 6 | Visual Studio Code (6), Eclipse (6), IntelliJ IDEA (6) |
| Kitty | 6 | Ghostty (6), WezTerm (6), Windows Terminal (6) |
| JetBrains IDEs | 4 | Zed (4), Visual Studio Code (4), Sublime Text (4) |
| tmux | 5 | Ghostty (5), WezTerm (5), Kitty (5) |
| PowerShell | 5 | Ghostty (5), WezTerm (5), Kitty (5) |
Most cited sources
Sites cited by the answers to this category's questions and its subcategories'. Counts are citing answers. All of this week's questions. Earlier ranks appear once two weekly runs of the same methodology exist.
| Rank | Source | Citing answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | reddit.com | 10 |
| 2 | youtube.com | 10 |
| 3 | rockstardeveloperuniversity.com | 10 |
| 4 | jetbrains.com | 9 |
| 5 | code.visualstudio.com | 8 |
| 6 | geeksforgeeks.org | 8 |
| 7 | dev.to | 6 |
| 8 | quora.com | 6 |
| 9 | toolradar.com | 6 |
| 10 | thesoftwarescout.com | 6 |
Sources and brands
Which cited sources appear in the answers that name each brand, counted in answers.
| Cited sources | Brand | Answers naming the brand |
|---|---|---|
| code.visualstudio.com | Visual Studio Code | 11 |
| youtube.com | Visual Studio Code | 10 |
| reddit.com | Visual Studio Code | 10 |
| jetbrains.com | Visual Studio Code | 10 |
| rockstardeveloperuniversity.com | Visual Studio Code | 9 |
| rockstardeveloperuniversity.com | Neovim | 8 |
| rockstardeveloperuniversity.com | Zed | 8 |
| zed.dev | Visual Studio Code | 8 |
| zed.dev | Zed | 8 |
| rockstardeveloperuniversity.com | Cursor | 7 |
| code.visualstudio.com | Zed | 7 |
| zapier.com | Visual Studio Code | 7 |
| zapier.com | Cursor | 6 |
| youtube.com | Cursor | 6 |
| zapier.com | Zed | 6 |
| jetbrains.com | IntelliJ IDEA | 6 |
| zapier.com | Neovim | 6 |
| secondtalent.com | Cursor | 5 |
| youtube.com | IntelliJ IDEA | 5 |
| reddit.com | IntelliJ IDEA | 5 |
| secondtalent.com | IntelliJ IDEA | 5 |
| youtube.com | Zed | 5 |
| jetbrains.com | PyCharm | 5 |
| zed.dev | Neovim | 5 |
| rockstardeveloperuniversity.com | WebStorm | 5 |
| secondtalent.com | Visual Studio Code | 5 |
| reddit.com | Cursor | 5 |
| jetbrains.com | Zed | 4 |
| code.visualstudio.com | Cursor | 4 |
| code.visualstudio.com | PyCharm | 4 |
| code.visualstudio.com | Neovim | 4 |
| jetbrains.com | Cursor | 4 |
| jetbrains.com | WebStorm | 4 |
| reddit.com | PyCharm | 4 |
| secondtalent.com | PyCharm | 4 |
| secondtalent.com | WebStorm | 4 |
| secondtalent.com | Windsurf | 4 |
| youtube.com | PyCharm | 4 |
| youtube.com | Neovim | 4 |
| zed.dev | Cursor | 4 |
| zed.dev | WebStorm | 4 |
| rockstardeveloperuniversity.com | Windsurf | 3 |
| secondtalent.com | Zed | 3 |
| zapier.com | WebStorm | 3 |
| youtube.com | WebStorm | 3 |
| zapier.com | Windsurf | 3 |
| reddit.com | WebStorm | 3 |
| rockstardeveloperuniversity.com | IntelliJ IDEA | 3 |
| reddit.com | Neovim | 3 |
| reddit.com | Zed | 3 |
| code.visualstudio.com | WebStorm | 3 |
| rockstardeveloperuniversity.com | PyCharm | 2 |
| youtube.com | Windsurf | 2 |
| jetbrains.com | Windsurf | 2 |
| zapier.com | PyCharm | 2 |
| zapier.com | IntelliJ IDEA | 2 |
| code.visualstudio.com | IntelliJ IDEA | 2 |
| secondtalent.com | Neovim | 2 |
| zed.dev | IntelliJ IDEA | 2 |
| zed.dev | PyCharm | 2 |
| code.visualstudio.com | Windsurf | 1 |
| jetbrains.com | Neovim | 1 |
| reddit.com | Windsurf | 1 |
| zed.dev | Windsurf | 1 |
Citations by source type
How many citations in this edition point at each kind of source.
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