Moderne, the Agent Tools company for AI-driven software engineering, today announced it has been named a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI-Augmented Code Modernization Tools.

As coding agents take on more of how software gets written, the harder problem is everything that comes after. Code already running in production still has to be upgraded and secured as frameworks and dependencies shift underneath it, and now that work has to happen continuously, at the pace agents set. AI-augmented modernization is how enterprises keep up.

“The models get the attention, but the infrastructure that lets agents change code safely is what decides whether AI works in production,” said Jonathan Schneider, CEO and co-founder of Moderne. “Moderne gives agents and engineers a deterministic foundation to modernize software across thousands of repositories, with changes that are reliable and repeatable. We believe being named a Leader confirms where enterprise modernization is heading.”

Moderne pairs deterministic automation with AI on one foundation: the Lossless Semantic Tree, a compiler-accurate model of an entire codebase. On top of it, more than 10,000 OpenRewrite recipes let engineering teams and coding agents make large-scale changes, from framework upgrades to security remediation, with the same audited result on every run. Because the platform runs on conventional compute rather than repeated model inference, it searches code up to 13.5 times faster and cuts wasted tokens by more than 85 percent. That makes the cost and outcome of a change predictable.

This is the second inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant to recognize Moderne in 2026. In May, Gartner named Moderne a Visionary, the only vendor placed in Visionaries Quadrant, in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Technical Debt Management Tools. This placement as a Leader follows a period of significant platform expansion, including the introduction of Agent Tools capabilities such as Prethink, Trigrep, and Changelog, as well as expanded language support across Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C#, Kotlin, Go, and Scala. Together, these capabilities provide coding agents with structured context, semantic search, and deterministic execution primitives designed for enterprise-scale software engineering.

The complimentary Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI-Augmented Code Modernization Tools is available at https://moderne.ai/reports/gartner-magic-quadrant-ai-augmented-code-modernization/.

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About Moderne

Moderne is the Agent Tools company that provides deterministic, governed infrastructure for AI coding agents operating across enterprise software systems. Moderne helps organizations scale AI-driven engineering with organization-wide intelligence and governed execution, continuously improving software quality while maximizing the value of their AI investments. Based in Miami. To learn more, visit moderne.ai.

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