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 | Visual Studio Code | Microsoft | 69.8 | 63% | 2.6 | NEW | |
| 2 | Git | — | 58.8 | 25% | 1.0 | NEW | |
| 3 | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA | JetBrains | 52.3 | 38% | 3.3 | 7 | |
| 4 | GitHub Actions | — | 52.1 | 75% | 10.5 | NEW | |
| 5 | GitHub Copilot | GitHub | 51.9 | 13% | 1.0 | 4 | |
| 6 | Postman | — | 51.9 | 13% | 1.0 | NEW | |
| 7 | Bitbucket | Atlassian | 50.8 | 38% | 3.7 | 4 | |
| 8 | GitLab | — | 47.2 | 50% | 6.5 | NEW | |
| 9 | Swagger / OpenAPI | — | 45.6 | 13% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 10 | GitLab CI/CD | — | 43.8 | 63% | 11.4 | NEW | |
| 11 | CircleCI | CircleCI | 43.5 | 63% | 11.6 | 6 | |
| 12 | IntelliJ IDEA | — | 42.4 | 25% | 4.0 | NEW | |
| 13 | PyCharm | JetBrains | 40.8 | 38% | 6.3 | NEW | |
| 14 | Sublime Text | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 15 | JetBrains Fleet | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 16 | Tabnine | Tabnine | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | 8 | |
| 17 | Insomnia | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 18 | Jenkins | Jenkins | 40.1 | 50% | 9.5 | 16 | |
| 19 | Docker | Docker | 39.4 | 63% | 15.6 | 3 | |
| 20 | Kubernetes | — | 38.6 | 63% | 16.8 | NEW |
Overall Top 20 — mention frequency vs average rank. Split by this period's medians. Tap a point to see its name.