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CI/CD: September 2026
The final September 2026 standings for “What CI/CD should I use?”. These numbers are fixed and can be cited by permalink. See the current standings.
AI share of voice · September 2026
570 sampled answers · 10 models
- 1GitHub Actions▼ 21.80.3%GPT · GLM 5.2—
- 2GitLab CI▼ 28.10.3%GPT · GLM 5.2—
- 3CircleCI▼ 290.3%GPT · GLM 5.2—
- 4Buildkite▼ 11.40.2%GPT—
- 5Jenkins▼ 28.70.2%GPT—
- 6Travis CI▼ 15.60%not named this month—
Biggest mover: CircleCI ▼ 29 pts vs the previous month
Share of voice weights each compared model equally: it is the average, across the models, of how often each one named the tool in its own answers, so a model probed more than another can't skew it. Model chips list which AI models named it this month; the pulse is the sentiment of that month's developer mentions across Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Bluesky and more.
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Averaged equally across 10 AI models, GitHub Actions is named in 0.3% of answers about ci/cd (2 of 10 name it).
The 3 prompts behind these standings
- ›What CI/CD should I use? (recommendation)
- ›What are the best GitHub Actions alternatives? (alternatives)
- ›Which CI/CD tool is best for a small team? (recommendation)
Each prompt is sampled several times per model per probe because answers vary run to run; 570 answers across 4 probe runs fed this month.