# Do coding agents recommend Qodo Merge?

> Qodo Merge was chosen in 8% of 290 judged code review sessions, ranking fifth. Measured with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.

Source: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-qodo-merge
Published: 2026-09-08
Publisher: Armature, Inc. (https://armature.tech)

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> Qodo Merge was chosen in 8% of 290 judged code review sessions, ranking fifth. It was also raised as a candidate in 39 further sessions without being chosen.

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

## The numbers

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Category | Code review |
| Sessions in the category | 290 |
| Sessions where Qodo Merge was chosen | 24 |
| Install share | 8% |
| Rank in category | 5 of 10 |
| Codebases it won in | 4 |
| Raised as a candidate, not chosen | 39 |
| Chosen when considered | 38% |
| Site | qodo.ai |

## By agent

The three agents treat Qodo Merge very differently. Codex chose it in 16% of its sessions in this category and Cursor in 0%, a spread of 16 points.

| Agent | Sessions | Chose Qodo Merge | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Claude Code | 100 | 8 | 8% |
| Codex | 100 | 16 | 16% |
| Cursor | 90 | 0 | 0% |

A single blended install share would report the midpoint and hide both ends. If most of your users run Cursor, your real position here is 0%, not 8%.

## By who was asking

Qodo Merge does much better with one kind of buyer than another. It won 16% of sessions asked as junior developer and 0% of those asked as senior engineer.

| Who is asking | Sessions | Chose Qodo Merge | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vibe coder | 58 | 1 | 2% |
| Junior developer | 116 | 18 | 16% |
| Senior engineer | 58 | 0 | 0% |
| Enterprise team | 58 | 5 | 9% |

## What Qodo Merge was up against

The full ranking in code review, from the same sessions:

| # | Product | Runs won | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Claude Code review | 76 | 26% |
| 2 | Cursor Bugbot | 71 | 24% |
| 3 | Codex code review | 37 | 13% |
| 4 | CodeRabbit | 34 | 12% |
| 5 | Qodo Merge **(this page)** | 24 | 8% |
| 6 | Built in-house (no product adopted) | 19 | 7% |
| 7 | Semgrep | 10 | 3% |
| 8 | GitHub Copilot code review | 9 | 3% |

## What this means

Qodo Merge was raised in 39 sessions and chosen in 24. 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 290 sessions in code review are part of a published set of 5,915, 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 code review run can be replayed on [the board](/leaderboards/code-review).

If you work on Qodo Merge: 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 Qodo Merge?

Yes. Qodo Merge was chosen in 24 of the 290 judged sessions in code review, a 8% install share, ranking fifth in its category.

### Does Claude Code recommend Qodo Merge?

In 8 of the 100 sessions in code review run with Claude Code, which is 8%.

### Do different coding agents treat Qodo Merge differently?

Yes, and by a wide margin. Codex chose it in 16% of its runs and Cursor in 0%.

### How was this measured?

Real coding agents at pinned versions were run in sandboxes inside 56 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 Qodo Merge considered but not chosen?

It was raised as a candidate in 39 sessions without being chosen, and chosen in 24. That is a 38% conversion from considered to chosen.

## Read next

- [How to get picked for code review by coding agents](https://armature.tech/library/code-review-coding-agents-playbook) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/code-review-coding-agents-playbook.md)
- [Do coding agents recommend Claude Code review?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-claude-code-review) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-claude-code-review.md)
- [Do coding agents recommend Cursor Bugbot?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-cursor-bugbot) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-cursor-bugbot.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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