# Do coding agents recommend Smallest AI Voice Agents? > Smallest AI Voice Agents was chosen in 1% of 621 judged voice agents sessions, ranking tenth. Source: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-smallest-ai-voice-agents Published: 2026-09-24 Publisher: Armature, Inc. (https://armature.tech) --- > Smallest AI Voice Agents was chosen in 1% of 621 judged voice agents sessions, ranking tenth. This page reports what happened when Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build CLI and Muse Code had to solve a problem in voice agents inside a realistic codebase. Not what a chat assistant says about Smallest AI Voice Agents. What an agent actually installed. ## The numbers | | | | --- | --- | | Category | Voice agents | | Sessions in the category | 621 | | Sessions where Smallest AI Voice Agents was chosen | 9 | | Install share | 1% | | Rank in category | 10 of 31 | | Codebases it won in | 3 | | Raised as a candidate, not chosen | 0 | | Chosen when considered | 100% | | Site | smallest.ai | ## By agent With 9 wins spread across 5 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. | Agent | Sessions | Chose Smallest AI Voice Agents | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Claude Code | 139 | 0 | 0% | | Codex | 155 | 3 | 2% | | Cursor | 149 | 0 | 0% | | Grok Build CLI | 43 | 0 | 0% | | Muse Code | 135 | 6 | 4% | ## By who was asking Smallest AI Voice Agents performs similarly across the four kinds of buyer, from 0% to 2%. That is unusual: the category leader changed with the persona in 22 of the 29 categories we measured. | Who is asking | Sessions | Chose Smallest AI Voice Agents | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Vibe coder | 125 | 1 | 1% | | Junior developer | 84 | 0 | 0% | | Senior engineer | 259 | 5 | 2% | | Enterprise team | 153 | 3 | 2% | ## What Smallest AI Voice Agents was up against The full ranking in voice agents, from the same sessions: | # | Product | Runs won | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Retell AI | 138 | 22% | | 2 | Vapi | 113 | 18% | | 3 | LiveKit Agents | 80 | 13% | | 4 | Twilio ConversationRelay | 58 | 9% | | 5 | ElevenLabs Agents | 55 | 9% | | 6 | OpenAI Realtime API | 46 | 7% | | 7 | Built in-house (no product adopted) | 34 | 5% | | 8 | Azure Voice Live API | 17 | 3% | ## What this means Agents almost never raise Smallest AI Voice Agents without choosing it: 0 sessions raised against 9 chosen. When it gets considered, it usually wins. The constraint is how rarely it gets considered at all, which is a presence problem: templates, framework integrations and pages that answer the configuration and production questions agents actually search for. ## Where these numbers come from The 621 sessions in voice agents are part of a published set of 13,497, 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 Smallest AI Voice Agents: 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 Smallest AI Voice Agents? Yes. Smallest AI Voice Agents was chosen in 9 of the 621 judged sessions in voice agents, a 1% install share, ranking tenth in its category. ### Does Claude Code recommend Smallest AI Voice Agents? In 0 of the 139 sessions in voice agents run with Claude Code, which is 0%. ### Do different coding agents treat Smallest AI Voice Agents differently? Not much. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build CLI and Muse Code chose it at similar rates, between 0% and 4% of their runs. ### How was this measured? Real coding agents at pinned versions were run in sandboxes inside 91 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. ## 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 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 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 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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