--- title: "Best AI coding tools: what companies in Latin America pay for" description: "Lovable has the most paying companies, Cursor takes most of the money. See the AI coding tools Latin American companies pay for in October 2026." canonical: "https://www.clara.com/ai-latam-monitor-posts/best-ai-coding-tools" lang: "en-US" alternate_html: "https://www.clara.com/ai-latam-monitor-posts/best-ai-coding-tools" --- # Best AI coding tools? What Latin American companies pay for (2026) November 13, 2026 **Lovable, which builds apps from text, is the AI coding tool paid for by the most companies in Latin America: 3.4% in October 2026\. Cursor has fewer paying companies (2.4%) but takes in more money: 6% of all AI spend, against 2.4% for Lovable.** After those two, no dedicated coding tool reaches half a percent of companies. Claude Code and Codex do not show up separately: they are billed on the same invoice as Anthropic and OpenAI. The figures come from Clara's [AI Monitor](https://www.clara.com/ai-monitor), which tracks monthly spending on AI vendors by more than 45,000 companies that use Clara's corporate card in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. **Key findings** - The share of companies paying for any AI coding tool went from 4.9% to 6.3% in 12 months. - Lovable went from 2.2% to 3.4% over the period; Cursor lost 0.11 points. - Replit (0.42%) and Base44 (0.26%), which also build apps from text, are in the top five. - A code review tool already ranks among the most paid-for coding tools: CodeRabbit, with 0.23% of companies. ![% of companies that paid for each of the most used AI coding tools, Latin America, Oct 2026](https://www.clara.com/_astro/assets/grafico.65498c8b.svg) ### Which AI coding tool do companies use the most? Lovable, with 3.4% of companies in the region in October 2026\. Cursor is second, with 2.4%. Together, the two account for almost all companies paying for dedicated AI coding tools in the region. ### Cursor or Lovable? It depends on the yardstick. By number of companies, Lovable leads. By money, Cursor does: it takes 6% of AI spend in the region, the third-largest share of any tool, behind only Anthropic and OpenAI. The two do different things. Lovable generates an entire app from a text description, what is known as vibe coding. Cursor is an AI-powered code editor for people who already know how to code. Over 12 months, their paths diverged: Lovable gained 1.2 points, while Cursor lost 0.11 points. ### What about Claude Code and Codex? They do not show up separately. Anthropic's and OpenAI's coding agents are billed on those companies' invoices together with the Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions, and cannot be broken out. That is why the ranking shows only dedicated tools: the ones a company buys just for coding. ### Which other AI coding tools do companies pay for? Replit (0.42%) and Base44 (0.26%) also build apps from text. CodeRabbit, which reviews code with AI, went from 0.13% to 0.23% in 12 months. OpenCode, an open-source coding agent, reached 0.28%. ### What about Brazil, Mexico and Colombia? In Mexico, the order flips: Cursor leads, with 1.8% of companies, followed by Lovable, with 1.6%. In Brazil, Lovable (5.9%) is ahead of Cursor (3.1%). In Colombia, Lovable (3.1%) is also ahead of Cursor (2.9%), as in the region overall. Dedicated coding tools reach 9.2% of companies in Brazil, 4.2% in Mexico and 6.3% in Colombia. | # | Tool | % of companies, Oct 2026 | Oct 2025 | 12-month change | Share of AI spend | | - | ----------------- | ------------------------ | -------- | --------------- | ----------------- | | 1 | Lovable | 3.4% | 2.2% | +1.2 pp | 2.4% | | 2 | Cursor | 2.4% | 2.5% | −0.11 pp | 6% | | 3 | Replit | 0.42% | 0.47% | −0.05 pp | 0.31% | | 4 | OpenCode\* | 0.28% | — | — | 0.30% | | 5 | Base44\* | 0.26% | — | — | 0.11% | | 6 | CodeRabbit | 0.23% | 0.13% | +0.10 pp | 0.46% | | 7 | Windsurf | 0.11% | 0.23% | −0.12 pp | 0.02% | | 8 | Devin (Cognition) | 0.09% | 0.06% | +0.03 pp | 0.10% | Source: AI Monitor (Clara), October 2026\. % of companies that paid for each tool in the month; share of total spend of AI companies. Client companies with corporate card transactions. \* No 12-month comparison. OpenCode and Base44: had no paying companies a year earlier. Vendors paid for by few companies in the country are not shown in the table. ![Clara](https://www.clara.com/_astro/assets/clara-logo.c4dab7c8.svg) ### How to cite AI Monitor (Clara), "Best AI coding tools? What Latin American companies pay for (2026)", updated November 2026\. 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