# Do coding agents recommend ElevenLabs Agents?

> ElevenLabs Agents was chosen in 10% of 308 judged voice agents sessions, ranking fifth. Measured with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.

Source: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-elevenlabs-agents
Published: 2026-09-03
Publisher: Armature, Inc. (https://armature.tech)

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> ElevenLabs Agents was chosen in 10% of 308 judged voice agents sessions, ranking fifth. It was also raised as a candidate in 72 further sessions without being chosen.

This page reports what happened when Claude Code, Codex and Cursor had to solve a problem in voice agents inside a realistic codebase. Not what a chat assistant says about ElevenLabs Agents. What an agent actually installed.

## The numbers

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Category | Voice agents |
| Sessions in the category | 308 |
| Sessions where ElevenLabs Agents was chosen | 30 |
| Install share | 10% |
| Rank in category | 5 of 18 |
| Codebases it won in | 5 |
| Raised as a candidate, not chosen | 72 |
| Chosen when considered | 29% |
| Site | elevenlabs.io |

## By agent

The three agents land within 11 points of each other on ElevenLabs Agents, which is closer than most products in this experiment manage.

| Agent | Sessions | Chose ElevenLabs Agents | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Claude Code | 94 | 15 | 16% |
| Codex | 110 | 10 | 9% |
| Cursor | 104 | 5 | 5% |

## By who was asking

ElevenLabs Agents does much better with one kind of buyer than another. It won 21% of sessions asked as vibe coder and 0% of those asked as junior developer.

| Who is asking | Sessions | Chose ElevenLabs Agents | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vibe coder | 62 | 13 | 21% |
| Junior developer | 42 | 0 | 0% |
| Senior engineer | 128 | 12 | 9% |
| Enterprise team | 76 | 5 | 7% |

## What ElevenLabs Agents was up against

The full ranking in voice agents, from the same sessions:

| # | Product | Runs won | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Vapi | 74 | 24% |
| 2 | Retell AI | 55 | 18% |
| 3 | OpenAI Realtime API | 37 | 12% |
| 4 | LiveKit Agents | 35 | 11% |
| 5 | ElevenLabs Agents **(this page)** | 30 | 10% |
| 6 | Twilio ConversationRelay | 28 | 9% |
| 7 | Built in-house (no product adopted) | 18 | 6% |
| 8 | Azure Voice Live API | 10 | 3% |

## What this means

ElevenLabs Agents was raised in 72 sessions and chosen in 30. That ratio is balanced enough that the ceiling is presence rather than integration: the product converts reasonably when it is on the table, and it is not on the table often enough.

## Where these numbers come from

The 308 sessions in voice agents are part of a published set of 5,292, 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 voice agents run can be replayed on [the board](/leaderboards/voice-agents).

If you work on ElevenLabs Agents: the judge recorded a reason for every session where it was raised and passed over. Those reasons are in the transcripts.

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## Common questions

### Do coding agents recommend ElevenLabs Agents?

Yes. ElevenLabs Agents was chosen in 30 of the 308 judged sessions in voice agents, a 10% install share, ranking fifth in its category.

### Does Claude Code recommend ElevenLabs Agents?

In 15 of the 94 sessions in voice agents run with Claude Code, which is 16%.

### Do different coding agents treat ElevenLabs Agents differently?

Yes, and by a wide margin. Claude Code chose it in 16% of its runs and Cursor in 5%.

### How was this measured?

Real coding agents at pinned versions were run in sandboxes inside 51 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 ElevenLabs Agents considered but not chosen?

It was raised as a candidate in 72 sessions without being chosen, and chosen in 30. That is a 29% conversion from considered to chosen.

## Read next

- [How to get picked for voice agents by coding agents](https://armature.tech/library/voice-agents-coding-agents-playbook) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/voice-agents-coding-agents-playbook.md)
- [Do coding agents recommend Vapi?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-vapi) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-vapi.md)
- [Do coding agents recommend Retell AI?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-retell-ai) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-retell-ai.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)

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