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 | Visual Studio Code | Microsoft | 65.6 | 38% | 1.0 | 17 | |
| 2 | GitHub Copilot | GitHub | 61.4 | 63% | 4.4 | 1 | |
| 3 | Docker | Docker | 50.8 | 38% | 3.7 | 6 | |
| 4 | GitHub Actions | — | 49.6 | 50% | 5.8 | 4 | |
| 5 | GitLab | — | 47.2 | 50% | 6.5 | 1 | |
| 6 | IntelliJ IDEA | — | 45.6 | 13% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 7 | Kubernetes | — | 45.6 | 13% | 2.0 | 8 | |
| 8 | Swagger | SmartBear | 45.6 | 13% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 9 | Cursor | Anysphere | 40.8 | 38% | 6.3 | 4 | |
| 10 | Postman | — | 40.5 | 50% | 9.3 | 9 | |
| 11 | Terraform | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 12 | Swagger Editor/SwaggerHub | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 13 | VS Code | Microsoft | 37.2 | 50% | 11.3 | 10 | |
| 14 | Bitbucket | Atlassian | 36.7 | 25% | 5.5 | NEW | |
| 15 | Claude Code | — | 36.4 | 38% | 8.0 | 5 | |
| 16 | Jira | — | 36.4 | 38% | 8.0 | 2 | |
| 17 | Azure DevOps Repos | — | 35.6 | 13% | 4.0 | NEW | |
| 18 | Insomnia | — | 35.6 | 13% | 4.0 | NEW | |
| 19 | Windsurf/Devin | — | 35.6 | 13% | 4.0 | NEW | |
| 20 | Notion | Notion Labs | 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.