# Do coding agents recommend Azure AI Document Intelligence? > Azure AI Document Intelligence was chosen in 21% of 360 judged document processing sessions, ranking second. Measured with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. Source: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-azure-ai-document-intelligence Published: 2026-09-15 Publisher: Armature, Inc. (https://armature.tech) --- > Azure AI Document Intelligence was chosen in 21% of 360 judged document processing sessions, ranking second. It was also raised as a candidate in 76 further sessions without being chosen. This page reports what happened when Claude Code, Codex and Cursor had to solve a problem in document processing inside a realistic codebase. Not what a chat assistant says about Azure AI Document Intelligence. What an agent actually installed. ## The numbers | | | | --- | --- | | Category | Document processing | | Sessions in the category | 360 | | Sessions where Azure AI Document Intelligence was chosen | 76 | | Install share | 21% | | Rank in category | 2 of 30 | | Codebases it won in | 8 | | Raised as a candidate, not chosen | 76 | | Chosen when considered | 50% | | Site | azure.microsoft.com | ## By agent The three agents treat Azure AI Document Intelligence very differently. Codex chose it in 28% of its sessions in this category and Claude Code in 10%, a spread of 18 points. | Agent | Sessions | Chose Azure AI Document Intelligence | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Claude Code | 120 | 12 | 10% | | Codex | 120 | 33 | 28% | | Cursor | 120 | 31 | 26% | A single blended install share would report the midpoint and hide both ends. If most of your users run Claude Code, your real position here is 10%, not 21%. ## By who was asking Azure AI Document Intelligence does much better with one kind of buyer than another. It won 31% of sessions asked as senior engineer and 10% of those asked as enterprise team. | Who is asking | Sessions | Chose Azure AI Document Intelligence | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Vibe coder | 30 | 4 | 13% | | Junior developer | 180 | 32 | 18% | | Senior engineer | 120 | 37 | 31% | | Enterprise team | 30 | 3 | 10% | ## What Azure AI Document Intelligence was up against The full ranking in document processing, from the same sessions: | # | Product | Runs won | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Anthropic Claude | 87 | 24% | | 2 | Azure AI Document Intelligence **(this page)** | 76 | 21% | | 3 | Amazon Textract | 37 | 10% | | 4 | Google Cloud Document AI | 31 | 9% | | 5 | Google Gemini | 17 | 5% | | 6 | Ocrolus | 15 | 4% | | 7 | Reducto | 13 | 4% | | 8 | Azure AI Content Understanding | 11 | 3% | ## What this means A solid second or third position in a category means the agent is genuinely choosing rather than reaching automatically. That is a winnable position, because the inputs it uses can be changed. The fastest gains are usually in the sessions that were nearly won: read them, find the step where the agent moved on, and fix that step. ## Where these numbers come from The 360 sessions in document processing are part of a published set of 7,673, run with real coding agents inside realistic codebases and judged blind. The full method is on one page: [how we measured this](/library/how-we-measured-this). Every document processing run can be replayed on [the board](/leaderboards/document-processing). If you work on Azure AI Document Intelligence: the judge recorded a reason for every session where it was raised and passed over. Those reasons are in the transcripts. ## Common questions ### Do coding agents recommend Azure AI Document Intelligence? Yes. Azure AI Document Intelligence was chosen in 76 of the 360 judged sessions in document processing, a 21% install share, ranking second in its category. ### Does Claude Code recommend Azure AI Document Intelligence? In 12 of the 120 sessions in document processing run with Claude Code, which is 10%. ### Do different coding agents treat Azure AI Document Intelligence differently? Yes, and by a wide margin. Codex chose it in 28% of its runs and Claude Code in 10%. ### How was this measured? Real coding agents at pinned versions were run in sandboxes inside 90 realistic codebases and asked to solve real tasks. A simulated project owner approved or questioned each recommendation before any code was written, and a judge from a model family that builds none of the agents read every session blind. ### How often is Azure AI Document Intelligence considered but not chosen? It was raised as a candidate in 76 sessions without being chosen, and chosen in 76. That is a 50% conversion from considered to chosen. ## Read next - [How to get picked for document processing by coding agents](https://armature.tech/library/document-processing-coding-agents-playbook) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/document-processing-coding-agents-playbook.md) - [Do coding agents recommend Anthropic Claude?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-anthropic-claude) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-anthropic-claude.md) - [Do coding agents recommend Amazon Textract?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-amazon-textract) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-amazon-textract.md) - [Do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor pick the same tools?](https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree.md) --- Armature helps software products get discovered and used by coding agents. 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