AI Recommendation Standings
What AI recommends to developers
When a developer asks an AI assistant what to use, the answer is a recommendation nobody sees happen. These boards make it public: every month BackTalk asks Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity the buying questions developers ask, extracts which tools they name, and freezes the standings next to what developers say about those same tools in public. Latest standings: September 2026.
Frozen monthly · ungated · methodology · View as Markdown
Error tracking
“What should I use for error tracking?”
- 1Sentry86.7%
- 2Bugsnag80%
- 3Rollbar80%
August 2026 · 6 tools ranked
Authentication
“What should I use for auth?”
First standings publish soon
September 2026 · 6 tools ranked
Hosting and PaaS
“Where should I host my app?”
- 1Railway0.2%
- 2Render0.2%
September 2026 · 6 tools ranked
Databases
“What database should I use?”
- 1PostgreSQL0.3%
- 2Supabase0.2%
- 3MongoDB0.2%
September 2026 · 6 tools ranked
Observability
“What should I use for observability and monitoring?”
- 1Datadog0.5%
- 2New Relic0.3%
- 3Grafana0.2%
September 2026 · 6 tools ranked
Vector databases
“What vector database should I use?”
First standings publish soon
Board announced
CI/CD
“What CI/CD should I use?”
- 1GitHub Actions0.3%
- 2GitLab CI0.3%
- 3CircleCI0.3%
September 2026 · 6 tools ranked
Payments
“What should I use to accept payments?”
- 1Stripe0.2%
- 2PayPal0.2%
- 3Square0.2%
September 2026 · 6 tools ranked
Email APIs
“What should I use to send email from my app?”
First standings publish soon
September 2026 · 6 tools ranked
Feature flags
“What feature flag service should I use?”
- 1Flagsmith40%
- 2GrowthBook40%
- 3LaunchDarkly40%
August 2026 · 6 tools ranked
ORMs
“What ORM should I use?”
- 1Prisma83.3%
- 2TypeORM53.3%
- 3Sequelize35%
August 2026 · 6 tools ranked
Message queues
“What message queue should I use?”
First standings publish soon
Board announced
Search
“What should I use for search in my app?”
First standings publish soon
September 2026 · 6 tools ranked
Headless CMS
“What headless CMS should I use?”
First standings publish soon
Board announced
Secrets management
“What should I use for secrets management?”
- 1HashiCorp Vault78.3%
- 2AWS Secrets Manager73.3%
- 3Doppler58.3%
August 2026 · 6 tools ranked
Product analytics
“What should I use for product analytics?”
- 1Mixpanel83.8%
- 2Amplitude81.1%
- 3PostHog78.4%
August 2026 · 6 tools ranked
AI coding assistants
“What AI coding assistant should I use?”
- 1GitHub Copilot1%
September 2026 · 6 tools ranked
AI agent frameworks
“What framework should I use to build AI agents?”
First standings publish soon
September 2026 · 6 tools ranked
LLM observability and evals
“What should I use for LLM observability and evals?”
First standings publish soon
September 2026 · 6 tools ranked
LLM gateways
“What LLM gateway should I use?”
- 1LiteLLM0.3%
- 2OpenRouter0.3%
- 3Portkey0.3%
September 2026 · 6 tools ranked
Past months
Each month keeps its own permalink, and once a month is finalized its numbers stay fixed, so a citation still says what it said. Browse the archive:
Is AI recommending your tool?
These boards cover 20 curated categories. BackTalk runs the same probes for any product: your prompts, your competitors, your share of voice on your own keys, next to every public developer mention of your brand.