Small business▼−5Since September 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 5% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 4 → 13 of 37
Amazon Q · 2 categories · RankedAmazon Q Developer
115Judge labels
5First choices
24Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
7% in AI coding for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 48 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 16% of its 38 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Amazon Q Developer →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business11 of 39
0%25 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market4 of 48
4%38 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise3 of 52
7%50 labels
accepted challenger
In ai coding · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Amazon Q Developer for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI coding assistants | Developer platform | 4% | 4 of 48 | 16% | 38 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Enterprise AI assistants | Data platform | 0% | 134 of 145 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by ChatGPT at 25% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Amazon Q Developer held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · AI coding · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 5 of 43, unchanged
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 5% → 5%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 5% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 2 → 3 of 49
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI coding | 2% | 2% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 4 of 48 |
| Enterprise AI | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 134 of 145, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Amazon Q Developer across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Amazon Q Developer across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct14 labelsNone
Paraphrase20 labels1
Comparative25 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained19 labels3
Scale-constrained14 labels1
Negative23 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative115 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 6 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“"For budget-conscious teams, Continue.dev and Amazon Q Developer offer excellent value."” Muse Glimmer 30B · AI coding · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd start with Amazon CodeWhisperer or Tabnine since they're free” MiniMax M2.5 · AI coding · budget prompt · first choice
“| Amazon Q Developer (ex-CodeWhisperer) | Yes (generous for individuals/AWS) | $19/mo Pro | AWS-heavy teams” Grok 4.20 · AI coding · budget prompt · alternative
“The Cloud-Native Choice: Amazon Q Developer ... Best For: Companies exclusively or primarily hosted on AWS.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI coding · paraphrase prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“cloud-only products are poor fits; for example, one comparison says Amazon Q Developer and GitHub Copilot are cloud-only and therefore unsuitable for strict air-gapped environments” Perplexity Sonar · Enterprise AI · negative prompt · hard negative
“Lower Priority/Avoid if Possible: Amazon Q Developer ... End-of-support looming ... migrate from Amazon soon” Grok 4.20 · AI coding · negative prompt · hard negative
“extracted 2,702 valid credentials from GitHub Copilot and 129 from Amazon CodeWhisperer using clever prompts” Muse Glimmer 30B · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative
“Ranked second lowest at 72.38 in the privacy scorecard. Also flagged in credential extraction research.” Muse Glimmer 30B · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Amazon Q Developer, over the 112 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Amazon Q Developer was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Amazon Q Developer, over the 112 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Amazon Q Developer was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Amazon Q Developer. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 98 of the 112 answers that named Amazon Q Developer and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
augmentcode.com46
dev.to29
kilo.ai28
docs.github.com26
zoer.ai24
jellyfish.co23
tech-insider.org23
github.com22
resources.rework.com20
axify.io19
260 of the 260 domain citations in answers naming Amazon Q Developer came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
amazon.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Amazon Q Developer takes 4% of first choices and GitHub Copilot takes 75%.ShowHide
Search and answers
amazon.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Amazon Q Developer takes 4% of first choices and GitHub Copilot takes 75%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ai coding assistant”
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not in the top ten
Position for “ai coding assistants”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,400 a month (“amazon q developer”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 58 a month
- Its company's site
- amazon.com shared with Amazon Q's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,681,997,879 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 41,877,954 · 12,884,125 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,228,430
- Paid Google search
- 559 searches its ads show for, about 25,126 clicks and $106,125 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 4 of 48 in AI coding
Segment leader
75%
GitHub Copilot
- First choices
- 5 across its categories
- Named in
- 112 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 98 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as Amazon Q Developer
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Amazon Q Developer; a claim can dispute any of them.
Amazon CodeWhisperer 11Amazon CodeWhisperer / Amazon Q Developer 3Amazon Q 2Amazon CodeWhisperer (now part of Amazon Q Developer) 1Amazon Q / CodeWhisperer 1Amazon Q Business / Dev 1Amazon Q Developer (ex-CodeWhisperer) 1
Follow Amazon Q Developer
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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The company
Amazon Q is the company behind Amazon Q Developer.ShowHide
The company
Amazon Q is the company behind Amazon Q Developer.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Price stated
- 专业销售账户的费用为 $39.99/月 + 销售费用。 sell.amazon.com/zh/developers
- Starting price
- 39.99 sell.amazon.com/zh/developers
- Not stated on the pages read
- Positioning, who it is for, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Amazon Q Developer's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: sell.amazon.com/developers, sell.amazon.com/zh/developers, sell.amazon.com/es/developers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Amazon Q Developer by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Amazon Q Developer is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Amazon Q Developer, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.