what’s the best ChatGPT replacement right now for coding?

thinking about switching things up for a bit and trying something other than ChatGPT since the whole DoD affair from what I’ve seen there are basically three directions people go:

one is Claude, which seems to be the go-to when people want strong reasoning and better handling of larger codebases.

another is Perplexity, which feels more like an AI search engine but apparently a lot of devs like it for quick answers and research.

and then there’s the aggregator approach, where you use a tool that connects multiple models instead of locking into one. saw someone mention blackbox doing this and apparently they have a $2 promo month right now that gives access to a bunch of models plus some unlimited ones like MM2.5 and kimi.

I haven’t tried any of these properly yet so curious what people here recommend. are most people still sticking with ChatGPT or actually moving to other tools?