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CI/CD: October 2026
The final October 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 · October 2026
735 sampled answers · 10 models
- 1CircleCI▲ 0.50.8%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Gemini 3.6 Flash—
- 2GitHub Actions▲ 0.50.8%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Gemini 3.6 Flash—
- 3Jenkins▲ 0.60.8%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Gemini 3.6 Flash—
- 4GitLab CI▲ 0.20.5%Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Gemini 3.6 Flash—
- 5Buildkite▼ 0.10.1%Gemini 3.6 Flash—
- 6Travis CI±00%not named this 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, CircleCI is named in 0.8% of answers about ci/cd (3 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; 735 answers across 5 probe runs fed this month.