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title: "What AI recommends to developers"
description: "Monthly standings of what Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity recommend across 20 dev-tool categories, cross-referenced with developer sentiment."
source: https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends
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# What AI recommends to developers

Every board below is clean markdown (drop the .md for the HTML version). Standings freeze monthly; share of voice is the percentage of sampled AI answers naming the tool.

- Error tracking (August 2026: Sentry leads at 86.7%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/error-tracking.md
- Authentication (August 2026: Auth0 leads at 28%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/auth.md
- Hosting and PaaS (August 2026: Vercel leads at 25.7%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/hosting.md
- Databases (August 2026: PostgreSQL leads at 31.6%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/databases.md
- Observability (August 2026: Grafana leads at 32%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/observability.md
- Vector databases (first standings publish soon): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/vector-databases.md
- CI/CD (August 2026: CircleCI leads at 29.3%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/ci-cd.md
- Payments (August 2026: Stripe leads at 34.2%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/payments.md
- Email APIs (August 2026: Amazon SES leads at 30.8%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/email-apis.md
- Feature flags (August 2026: Flagsmith leads at 40%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/feature-flags.md
- ORMs (August 2026: Prisma leads at 83.3%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/orms.md
- Message queues (first standings publish soon): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/message-queues.md
- Search (August 2026: Algolia leads at 32.9%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/search.md
- Headless CMS (first standings publish soon): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/headless-cms.md
- Secrets management (August 2026: HashiCorp Vault leads at 78.3%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/secrets-management.md
- Product analytics (August 2026: Mixpanel leads at 83.8%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/analytics.md
- AI coding assistants (August 2026: GitHub Copilot leads at 32.3%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/ai-coding-assistants.md
- AI agent frameworks (August 2026: LangChain leads at 29.8%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/ai-agent-frameworks.md
- LLM observability and evals (August 2026: LangSmith leads at 23.5%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/llm-observability.md
- LLM gateways (August 2026: LiteLLM leads at 25.5%): https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/llm-gateways.md

Methodology: https://backtalk.sh/ai-recommends/methodology.md