OpenAI named a Leader in enterprise coding agents by Gartner

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OpenAI has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner^® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Coding Agents. We believe this evaluation reflects our progress in supporting enterprise-scale deployments of Codex, which is used by more than 4 million people each week and companies including Cisco⁠, Datadog⁠, Dell Technologies⁠, and NVIDIA⁠. Since Gartner's evaluation earlier this year, we have significantly improved Codex with the introduction of GPT‑5.5⁠, as well as stronger tool use, faster performance, and deeper support for enterprise software development workflows.

2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Coding Agents. Source: Gartner, April 2026.

Software development is becoming more agentic. Developers are moving beyond autocomplete to delegating complex tasks to Codex. Codex can understand large codebases, use tools, make changes, run tests, and prepare work for human review. For enterprises, the opportunity is speed with control: helping teams build faster while maintaining the governance, security, and auditability they need.

In the report, Gartner recognized Codex’s strengths across its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Gartner recognized Codex’s strengths across agentic software development, enterprise governance, sandboxing, and flexible deployment options. Gartner highlighted Codex’s broad developer surface—including the Codex app, IDE extensions, CLI, SDKs, and cloud-based orchestration—as well as enterprise controls such as approval gates, RBAC, customizable policies, OS-level sandboxing, and auditable workspace governance.

We believe these advantages helped make OpenAI the right partner for Cisco, which used Codex to develop the majority of its AI Defense security platform, shortening delivery time from several quarters to weeks. Cisco’s SVP of Products for AI Software and Platform, DJ Sampath, shares how Codex is changing the way Cisco builds software.

—Denise Dresser, CRO, OpenAI

• Codex
• 2026

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