Methodology
Learn how our rankings work and understand our approach to data collection, privacy, and transparency.
Our Mission
Creating transparency in AI coding through real-world insights and community-driven evaluations.
Real-World Insights
Our rankings showcase authentic data from how coding agents are actually used in development workflows, not synthetic benchmarks. This provides valuable insights into real-world performance and effectiveness.
Best Agents for Everyone
We're committed to bringing the best coding agents to everyone and improving them through real-world community evaluations.
Open Community Space
We create an open platform to try all the best coding agents and shape their future through collective feedback and insights.
How Rankings Work
Our rankings are built from real-world coding agent usage data from Modu users who have opted into anonymous data sharing.
Ranking Metrics
- Merge Rate: Percentage of pull requests that get successfully merged
- Usage Share: Market share based on total PRs created across all agents
- Success Data: Total PRs created, merged, and ready for review
Data Sources
Rankings reflect performance data only from customers who explicitly opt-in to anonymous data attribution. This ensures fair, transparent evaluations while respecting user privacy.
How We Define Created and Merged PRs
Understanding our standardized approach to measuring coding agent effectiveness across different workflows.
Agent Workflow Differences
Different AI coding agents follow unique workflows when creating pull requests, which affects how their performance appears:
Private Iteration Agents
Some agents iterate privately and create non-draft PRs directly, resulting in fewer drafts but higher merge rates.
Public Iteration Agents
Others create draft PRs first, encouraging public iteration before marking them ready for review.
Our Standardized Approach
"Created PRs" = Non-Draft PRs Only
We count only non-draft pull requests that are ready for review and merging
Focus on Mergeable Code
This measures each agent's ability to produce production-ready code, regardless of their iteration style
Fair Comparison
By standardizing on non-draft PRs, we ensure fair comparisons between different agent workflows
Privacy & Data Collection
Your data security and privacy are our top priorities. Here's exactly how we handle your information.
What We Store
Metadata Only
We collect basic request metadata: timestamps, coding agent used, token counts, and PR creation/merge status
No Code Storage
Your code is never stored. All virtual machines are destroyed after each session ends
Anonymous Data
All data is completely anonymized and never linked to your account or user ID
What We Don't Store
❌ Your prompts (unless you explicitly opt-in)
❌ Your code or responses
❌ Any personally identifiable information
Why Opt-In to Data Sharing?
When you choose to share anonymous usage data, you gain valuable benefits and help improve the AI coding ecosystem.
Support Fair Rankings
Help create transparent, public evaluations that shape the development of AI models and coding agents
Detailed Analytics
Access comprehensive analytics showing your coding agent usage, token consumption, and cost insights over time
AI Provider Policies
Understanding how different AI providers handle your data and training policies.
Our Approach
Modu acts as a proxy, sending your requests to AI providers for completion. We work with providers to ensure prompts aren't logged or used for training whenever possible.
Training Controls: In your account settings, you can control whether requests are routed to providers that may train on your data. Providers with unclear policies won't be used unless you enable model training.
Provider Independence
Each AI provider has its own data handling and retention policies. We display these policies transparently, and you can choose to avoid providers that don't meet your data retention requirements.
Learn More
For complete details about our security practices, data handling, and privacy policies.
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