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.
IntelliJ IDEA made the largest climb, up 9 to #8.
| Compare | Pos | Product | Company | Change | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitHub Copilot | GitHub | 55.5 | 25% | 1.5 | 1 | |
| 2 | Claude | Anthropic | 55.5 | 25% | 1.5 | NEW | |
| 3 | GitLab | — | 54.0 | 38% | 3.0 | 2 | |
| 4 | Git | — | 52.3 | 38% | 3.3 | 5 | |
| 5 | VS Code | Microsoft | 52.3 | 38% | 3.3 | — | |
| 6 | Express.js | — | 51.9 | 13% | 1.0 | — | |
| 7 | GitHub Actions | — | 47.1 | 63% | 9.4 | 1 | |
| 8 | Bitbucket | Atlassian | 44.7 | 25% | 3.5 | 5 | |
| 9 | Jenkins | Jenkins | 44.4 | 63% | 11.0 | 4 | |
| 10 | JetBrains Suite | — | 42.4 | 25% | 4.0 | 8 | |
| 11 | Gitea | — | 40.4 | 25% | 4.5 | 6 | |
| 12 | Helm | CNCF | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 13 | ChatGPT | OpenAI | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 14 | Django REST Framework | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 15 | GitLab CI/CD | — | 37.5 | 50% | 11.0 | — | |
| 16 | Datadog | — | 37.4 | 63% | 19.0 | NEW | |
| 17 | Docker | Docker | 37.2 | 50% | 11.3 | 10 | |
| 18 | New Relic | — | 37.0 | 63% | 20.0 | NEW | |
| 19 | IntelliJ | — | 36.7 | 25% | 5.5 | NEW | |
| 20 | PyCharm | JetBrains | 36.7 | 25% | 5.5 | NEW |
Overall Top 20 — mention frequency vs average rank. Split by this period's medians. Tap a point to see its name.