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
AI coding assistants	Developer platform	2%	5 of 46	17%	35	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Amazon Q Developer yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Amazon Q Developer across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	3	0	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	4	1	1	6
Mistral Small	0	2	1	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	2	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	3	0	1	4
Kimi K2	0	2	1	1	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	0	2	5
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	0	2

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

Direct17 labelsNone

Paraphrase20 labelsNone

Comparative20 labelsNone

Budget-constrained14 labels5

Scale-constrained11 labelsNone

Negative17 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative99 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 a very tight budget, start with: - CodeWhisperer (completely free)” MiniMax M2.5 · AI coding · budget prompt · first choice

“*Java/Enterprise shops:* Amazon CodeWhisperer or JetBrains AI often perform very well here.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI coding · scale prompt · alternative

“Amazon Q Developer (formerly CodeWhisperer) — For AWS-heavy environments” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI coding · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Amazon Q Developer free tier: cited as offering 50 agentic chats” Perplexity Sonar · AI coding · budget 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.

“Exercise caution when using any AI assistant (including GitHub Copilot, JetBrains AI, or Amazon Q)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative

“Note: AWS is phasing out new subscriptions, so this may not be ideal for new adopters” Kimi K2 · AI coding · budget prompt · soft negative

“code quality and security are inconsistent and often require manual review” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative

“Amazon CodeWhisperer (older versions; check current terms)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Amazon Q Developer, over the 97 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

GitHub Copilot96 of 9759Not in the top three

Tabnine78 of 978Not in the top three

Cursor76 of 974Not in the top three

Claude Code37 of 970Not in the top three

Windsurf32 of 972Not in the top three

Gemini Code Assist19 of 971Not in the top three

Sourcegraph Cody16 of 970Not in the top three

Augment Code15 of 970Not in the top three

Aider11 of 970Not in the top three

Continue9 of 970Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 83 of the 97 answers that named Amazon Q Developer and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

axify.io42

augmentcode.com38

learn.g2.com21

memeburn.com21

dev.to18

github.com17

layer3labs.io17

tabnine.com17

aws.amazon.comYour site16

docs.github.com16

207 of the 223 domain citations in answers naming Amazon Q Developer came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

axify.io/blog/the-best-ai-coding-assistants-a-full-comparison-of-20-tools42

learn.g2.com/best-ai-coding-assistants21

memeburn.com/best-ai-coding-tools21

augmentcode.com/tools/beyond-github-copilot-5-enterprise-ready-ai-coding-assistants17

zapier.com/blog/ai-coding-tools13

augmentcode.com/tools/8-top-ai-coding-assistants-and-their-best-use-cases12

gartner.com/reviews/market/ai-code-assistants12

daily.dev/blog/best-ai-coding-assistants-comparison11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 9Amazon Q 4Amazon Q Developer (formerly CodeWhisperer) 2Amazon CodeWhisperer (now part of Amazon Q Developer) 1Amazon Q Developer / CodeWhisperer 1

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