From the experiment

Do coding agents recommend MapTiler?

MapTiler was chosen in 5% of 319 judged maps sessions, ranking eighth. Measured with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.

Published September 11, 2026 Read as Markdown

MapTiler was chosen in 5% of 319 judged maps sessions, ranking eighth. It was also raised as a candidate in 134 further sessions without being chosen.

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

The numbers

CategoryMaps
Sessions in the category319
Sessions where MapTiler was chosen15
Install share5%
Rank in category8 of 32
Codebases it won in6
Raised as a candidate, not chosen134
Chosen when considered10%
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By agent

With 15 wins spread across three agents, the rates below are small numbers and a difference between them is not yet a finding. They are here because the direction is worth knowing, not because the gap is established.

AgentSessionsChose MapTilerShare
Claude Code10855%
Codex11133%
Cursor10077%

By who was asking

MapTiler performs similarly across the four kinds of buyer, from 4% to 6%. That is unusual: the category leader changed with the persona in 19 of the 23 categories we measured.

Who is askingSessionsChose MapTilerShare
Vibe coder6446%
Junior developer14764%
Senior engineer7234%
Enterprise team3626%

What MapTiler was up against

The full ranking in maps, from the same sessions:

#ProductRuns wonShare
1Google Maps5216%
2Leaflet5216%
3Apple Maps (MapKit)4614%
4Mapbox258%
5MapLibre217%
6react-native-maps196%
7Azure Maps186%
8Built in-house (no product adopted)165%

What this means

This is an integration problem, not a presence problem. Agents raised MapTiler in 134 sessions and chose it in 15, so it reaches the shortlist and then loses. Something at the last step is costing the session, and in our data that is usually a quickstart that does not run when pasted, documentation describing an interface that changed, or a package name that does not match the product name.

That is the cheaper of the two problems to have. The reason is written down in each losing transcript.

Where these numbers come from

The 319 sessions in maps are part of a published set of 6,458, run with real coding agents inside realistic codebases and judged blind. The full method is on one page: how we measured this.

Every maps run can be replayed on the board.

If you work on MapTiler: 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 MapTiler?

Yes. MapTiler was chosen in 15 of the 319 judged sessions in maps, a 5% install share, ranking eighth in its category.

Does Claude Code recommend MapTiler?

In 5 of the 108 sessions in maps run with Claude Code, which is 5%.

Do different coding agents treat MapTiler differently?

Not much. The three agents chose it at similar rates, between 3% and 7% of their runs.

How was this measured?

Real coding agents at pinned versions were run in sandboxes inside 63 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 MapTiler considered but not chosen?

It was raised as a candidate in 134 sessions without being chosen, and chosen in 15. That is a 10% conversion from considered to chosen.

Where this comes from

Armature ran 6,458 judged sessions with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor inside 63 realistic codebases, and published every run. The numbers on this page come from that work.

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