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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: August 2026.

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Error tracking

“What should I use for error tracking?”

  1. 1Sentry86.7%
  2. 2Bugsnag80%
  3. 3Rollbar80%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

Authentication

“What should I use for auth?”

  1. 1Auth028%
  2. 2Clerk22.6%
  3. 3Supabase Auth20.9%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

Hosting and PaaS

“Where should I host my app?”

  1. 1Vercel25.7%
  2. 2Render25.1%
  3. 3Railway23.1%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

Databases

“What database should I use?”

  1. 1PostgreSQL31.6%
  2. 2MongoDB23.1%
  3. 3MySQL21.4%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

Observability

“What should I use for observability and monitoring?”

  1. 1Grafana32%
  2. 2Datadog31.7%
  3. 3Prometheus30.6%

August 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?”

  1. 1CircleCI29.3%
  2. 2Jenkins28.9%
  3. 3GitLab CI28.4%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

Payments

“What should I use to accept payments?”

  1. 1Stripe34.2%
  2. 2PayPal28.5%
  3. 3Square24.3%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

Email APIs

“What should I use to send email from my app?”

  1. 1Amazon SES30.8%
  2. 2SendGrid30.1%
  3. 3Mailgun30%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

Feature flags

“What feature flag service should I use?”

  1. 1Flagsmith40%
  2. 2GrowthBook40%
  3. 3LaunchDarkly40%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

ORMs

“What ORM should I use?”

  1. 1Prisma83.3%
  2. 2TypeORM53.3%
  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?”

  1. 1Algolia32.9%
  2. 2Elasticsearch30.8%
  3. 3Meilisearch27.1%

August 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?”

  1. 1HashiCorp Vault78.3%
  2. 2AWS Secrets Manager73.3%
  3. 3Doppler58.3%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

Product analytics

“What should I use for product analytics?”

  1. 1Mixpanel83.8%
  2. 2Amplitude81.1%
  3. 3PostHog78.4%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

AI coding assistants

“What AI coding assistant should I use?”

  1. 1GitHub Copilot32.3%
  2. 2Cursor31%
  3. 3Claude Code14%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

AI agent frameworks

“What framework should I use to build AI agents?”

  1. 1LangChain29.8%
  2. 2LlamaIndex27.8%
  3. 3CrewAI18.9%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

LLM observability and evals

“What should I use for LLM observability and evals?”

  1. 1LangSmith23.5%
  2. 2Langfuse22.8%
  3. 3Helicone19.6%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

LLM gateways

“What LLM gateway should I use?”

  1. 1LiteLLM25.5%
  2. 2OpenRouter22%
  3. 3Portkey21.9%

August 2026 · 6 tools ranked

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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.

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