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 | GitHub Copilot | GitHub | 53.8 | 63% | 6.6 | — | |
| 2 | JetBrains IDEs | — | 52.5 | 25% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 3 | VS Code | Microsoft | 52.2 | 50% | 5.0 | 9 | |
| 4 | Git | — | 51.9 | 13% | 1.0 | NEW | |
| 5 | Cursor | Anysphere | 48.3 | 63% | 8.8 | 3 | |
| 6 | GitLab | — | 47.9 | 38% | 4.3 | NEW | |
| 7 | Apigee | — | 45.6 | 13% | 2.0 | 2 | |
| 8 | GitHub Actions | — | 45.1 | 50% | 7.3 | NEW | |
| 9 | Docker | Docker | 43.0 | 38% | 5.7 | 2 | |
| 10 | Claude Code | — | 42.7 | 50% | 8.3 | 4 | |
| 11 | Podman | Red Hat | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 12 | Swagger UI | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 13 | Greptile | — | 38.5 | 25% | 5.0 | NEW | |
| 14 | Jira | — | 36.7 | 25% | 5.5 | NEW | |
| 15 | Kubernetes | — | 36.4 | 38% | 8.0 | NEW | |
| 16 | Sourcegraph | — | 35.6 | 13% | 4.0 | NEW | |
| 17 | Stoplight | — | 35.6 | 13% | 4.0 | NEW | |
| 18 | Visual Studio Code | Microsoft | 35.0 | 25% | 6.0 | NEW | |
| 19 | Postman | — | 34.2 | 38% | 9.0 | NEW | |
| 20 | AKS | — | 31.6 | 13% | 5.0 | NEW |
Overall Top 20 — mention frequency vs average rank. Split by this period's medians. Tap a point to see its name.