When developers ask AI which IDE, database, or infra tool to pick, here’s who ends up on that shortlist. IDE, database, and infra choices stick — a bad pick costs migration time later. See who AI names for engineers this week before you invest in evals — and track which competitors stay on (or fall off) that shortlist.
GitLab took #1 in Developer Tools.
| Compare | Pos | Product | Company | Change | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitLab | — | 52.9 | 56% | 7.7 | 100% | NEW | |
| 2 | GitHub Actions | — | 51.2 | 64% | 10.7 | 100% | NEW | |
| 3 | GitHub Copilot | GitHub | 49.0 | 31% | 4.5 | 100% | 2 | |
| 4 | Git | — | 48.2 | 29% | 4.5 | 100% | NEW | |
| 5 | JetBrains IDEs | — | 47.8 | 24% | 3.5 | 83% | NEW | |
| 6 | Bitbucket | Atlassian | 47.8 | 45% | 7.5 | 100% | 4 | |
| 7 | VS Code | Microsoft | 47.7 | 29% | 4.2 | 83% | 4 | |
| 8 | Visual Studio Code | Microsoft | 47.1 | 22% | 3.4 | 83% | NEW | |
| 9 | Express.js | — | 44.1 | 5% | 1.3 | 33% | NEW | |
| 10 | Cursor | Anysphere | 43.5 | 27% | 5.1 | 83% | 6 | |
| 11 | Tabnine | Tabnine | 40.8 | 13% | 4.3 | 100% | 3 | |
| 12 | Jenkins | Jenkins | 39.4 | 47% | 13.9 | 100% | 6 | |
| 13 | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA | JetBrains | 37.7 | 7% | 2.8 | 33% | 6 | |
| 14 | Docker | Docker | 37.5 | 44% | 14.0 | 100% | 5 | |
| 15 | Kubernetes | — | 37.0 | 44% | 14.6 | 100% | NEW | |
| 16 | PyCharm | JetBrains | 36.0 | 22% | 7.5 | 100% | 3 | |
| 17 | IntelliJ IDEA | — | 35.1 | 16% | 6.1 | 83% | NEW | |
| 18 | CircleCI | CircleCI | 34.5 | 38% | 14.3 | 100% | 8 | |
| 19 | Azure Repos | — | 34.1 | 7% | 4.0 | 50% | NEW | |
| 20 | GitLab CI/CD | — | 33.0 | 36% | 13.1 | 83% | NEW |
Overall Top 20 — mention frequency vs average rank. Split by this period's medians. Tap a point to see its name.
Brands mentioned as of this period (2026-08-24) but outside the Top 20.
| Product | Mention rate |
|---|---|
| Terraform | 31% |
| Jira | 27% |
| Postman | 24% |
| Linear | 22% |
| Datadog | 22% |
| Azure DevOps | 22% |
| Travis CI | 20% |
| Slack | 20% |
| Grafana | 18% |
| Pulumi | 18% |