IBM watsonx Code Assistant

Listed in the vendor table for AI coding. Not named in any of the 84 answers those categories produced in the October 2026 Edition: fourteen models, six prompts per category and segment, every question asked three times, on behalf of a small B2B company, a mid-market B2B company and an enterprise B2B company, with every standing computed within one segment.

Standing

Not named in 84 answers

Absence in a measured set of answers is a finding, not a verdict: it says the models did not reach for IBM watsonx Code Assistant when asked these questions this month. The products they named instead are listed by category below.

By buyer segment

The same categories asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each share and rank is computed within its segment; the columns sit side by side and are never added together.

Category	Small business	Mid-market	Enterprise
AI coding assistants	0% · 25 of 39 1 label	not named	0% · 9 of 52 2 labels

Where it was not named

Each category IBM watsonx Code Assistant belongs to, the answers collected there, and who the models named first instead.

Category	Function	Named in	Named instead, first-choice share
AI coding assistants	Developer platform	0 of 84	GitHub Copilot 75% · Windsurf 14% · Cursor 4%

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