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 | Cursor | Anysphere | 58.8 | 25% | 1.0 | 1 | |
| 2 | Git | — | 54.5 | 25% | 1.7 | NEW | |
| 3 | GitLab | — | 52.0 | 58% | 6.4 | NEW | |
| 4 | Bitbucket | Atlassian | 51.6 | 42% | 4.0 | 8 | |
| 5 | GitHub Actions | — | 50.7 | 67% | 8.8 | NEW | |
| 6 | Git + GitHub | — | 49.6 | 8% | 1.0 | NEW | |
| 7 | Insomnia | — | 47.9 | 17% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 8 | Visual Studio Code | Microsoft | 45.1 | 17% | 2.5 | NEW | |
| 9 | JetBrains IDEs | — | 43.3 | 8% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 10 | GitHub Copilot Workspace | GitHub | 43.3 | 8% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 11 | Containerd | — | 43.3 | 8% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 12 | Bruno | — | 42.5 | 17% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 13 | Kubernetes | — | 38.1 | 58% | 14.4 | NEW | |
| 14 | Claude 4 / GPT-5 agents | — | 37.9 | 8% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 15 | CRI-O | — | 37.9 | 8% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 16 | GitHub Enterprise | — | 37.9 | 8% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 17 | Azure Repos | — | 37.9 | 17% | 4.0 | NEW | |
| 18 | Hoppscotch | — | 37.9 | 17% | 4.0 | NEW | |
| 19 | Aider | — | 37.2 | 25% | 5.3 | NEW | |
| 20 | GitHub Copilot | GitHub | 36.1 | 25% | 5.7 | 19 |
Overall Top 20 — mention frequency vs average rank. Split by this period's medians. Tap a point to see its name.