1,106 products tracked for Engineering teams · 23.1% popularity share · 22.6% spend share. Data as of 27 July 2026, 16:41 UTC.
AI-augmented, developer-experience tooling is climbing fastest while older analytics/visibility point-solutions are collapsing. Biggest upward moves are Browserbase (+229), Cubic (+116), Meshy (+76), Laravel Nightwatch (+50), and Firebender (+10)—outsized rank acceleration despite a fragmented category mix. The steepest declines—GitView (-960) and Athenian (-845), plus Onirix (-654)—suggest incumbents are being bypassed rather than gradually displaced. Signal: Engineering leaders should re-evaluate “must-have” monitoring/insights vendors—churn risk is rising—while proactively piloting AI-assisted build/test/observability workflows where adoption velocity is clearest (e.g., Browserbase +229, Nightwatch +50). Watch for consolidation pressure: with Engineering share down 3.0% YoY and only 19% AI-enhanced tools, winners will be tools that reduce toil immediately and integrate cleanly.
| Product | Website | Subcategory | Description | Popularity rank | Spend rank | Popularity share | Spend share | AI classification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cursor | cursor.com | Dev Tools | Cursor is an AI code editor powered by OpenAI's GPT models that allows users to write, edit, and discuss code within the editor. | #5 | #7 | 3.12% | 1.93% | AI-Native |
| Atlassian | atlassian.com | Project Management | Atlassian is an enterprise software company that develops products for software developers, project managers, and content management. | #6 | #4 | 2.32% | 4.89% | AI-Embedded |
| GitHub | github.com | Dev Tools | GitHub provides hosting for software development version control using Git. | #7 | #8 | 2.06% | 1.69% | AI-Embedded |
| Sentry | sentry.io | Dev Tools | Sentry helps developers take action on broken lines of code, crashes, and API calls. It provides visibility across all platforms with features such as custom queries, dashboards, cross-project issues, | #16 | #38 | 0.81% | 0.37% | Traditional |
| JetBrains | jetbrains.com | Developer Tools & IDEs | JetBrains provides a suite of developer tools, including Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like IntelliJ IDEA for Java and PyCharm for Python, as well as team collaboration and continuous int | #17 | #14 | 0.80% | 1.10% | AI-Embedded |
| Vercel | vercel.com | Dev Tools | Vercel is a cloud platform for static sites and Serverless Functions that enables developers to deploy, preview, and scale their websites and applications with ease. It's optimized for frontend framew | #23 | #34 | 0.68% | 0.42% | AI-Embedded |
| CircleCI | circleci.com | Dev Tools | CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery platform for Linux, macOS, and Android. | #24 | #97 | 0.52% | 0.14% | Traditional |
| ElevenLabs | elevenlabs.io | Content | ElevenLabs is a platform that provides tools for the creation and management of synthetic voices using AI technology. The platform enables the conversion of text into spoken audio, allowing users to c | #27 | #69 | 0.47% | 0.20% | AI-Native |
| Datadog | datadoghq.com | Analytics | Datadog is a monitoring service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform. | #30 | #9 | 0.45% | 1.65% | AI-Embedded |
| Lovable | lovable.dev | Dev Tools | Lovable.dev is an AI-powered platform that enables users to create and deploy full-stack web applications through natural language prompts. It integrates with Supabase for backend services and GitHub | #32 | #119 | 0.44% | 0.12% | AI-Native |
| Sinch Mailgun | mailgun.com | Email & Marketing Automation | Sinch Mailgun is a transactional email API platform designed for developers. It helps solve the business problem of reliably sending and delivering emails to users. The service offers several use case | #37 | #59 | 0.36% | 0.25% | Traditional |
| Netlify | netlify.com | Dev Tools | Netlify offers a modern development platform for enterprises. It allows businesses to build and deploy scalable, composable web architectures quickly and efficiently. The platform provides a range of | #38 | #107 | 0.36% | 0.13% | Traditional |
| BrowserStack | browserstack.com | Testing & QA | BrowserStack is a cloud web and mobile testing platform that enables developers to test their websites and mobile applications across on-demand browsers, operating systems and real mobile devices, wit | #45 | #79 | 0.31% | 0.17% | Traditional |
| OpenRouter | openrouter.ai | LLM Providers & APIs | OpenRouter is an API platform and model gateway that lets developers access and route requests across multiple AI models and providers through a unified interface. It is used to compare, switch, and m | #46 | #83 | 0.31% | 0.16% | AI-Native |
| Postman | postman.com | Dev Tools | Postman is an API platform that simplifies the process of building and using APIs. It offers a comprehensive set of tools to accelerate and streamline the API lifecycle. With Postman, developers can e | #56 | #49 | 0.26% | 0.28% | AI-Embedded |
| Docker | docker.com | Dev Tools | Docker is a platform that offers a set of practical tools for developers. With Docker, developers can easily build, share, and run applications without having to worry about complex setup and manageme | #57 | #114 | 0.26% | 0.12% | Traditional |
| Replit | replit.com | Dev Tools | Replit is a software creation platform that facilitates collaborative building with AI integration. It offers an instant-start environment for development across various languages and frameworks, with | #65 | #184 | 0.24% | 0.07% | AI-Native |
| Linear | linear.app | Project Management | Linear is a platform designed for project and issue tracking, primarily targeted at software development teams. It offers tools for organizing and managing tasks, issues, and projects with a focus on | #68 | #43 | 0.22% | 0.33% | AI-Embedded |
| npm | npmjs.com | Dev Tools | npm is the maker of the node package manager, the npm Registry, and npm CLI | #74 | #317 | 0.21% | 0.04% | Traditional |
| Postmark | postmarkapp.com | Email & Marketing Automation | Postmark is a platform that securely delivers transactional emails, like password reset notifications and purchase confirmations, to recipients' inboxes. | #77 | #156 | 0.19% | 0.09% | Traditional |
| PagerDuty | pagerduty.com | Infrastructure | PagerDuty is an AI-powered operations platform that helps businesses automate their work. The platform provides end-to-end orchestration for rapid issue resolution, bridges support and engineering tea | #83 | #54 | 0.18% | 0.26% | Traditional |
| Windsurf | windsurf.com | Dev Tools | Windsurf is an AI-powered Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that integrates advanced AI copilots and automation tools into the software development workflow. It assists developers by automating | #85 | #193 | 0.17% | 0.07% | AI-Native |
| WP Engine | wpengine.com | Dev Tools | WP Engine is a trusted WordPress platform that offers a range of products and solutions for businesses. One of their main offerings is WordPress Hosting, which provides effortless site management, imp | #87 | #61 | 0.17% | 0.25% | Traditional |
| CodeRabbit | coderabbit.ai | Dev Tools | CodeRabbit is an AI-powered platform that automates code reviews, offering detailed feedback to enhance code quality and efficiency. | #89 | #175 | 0.17% | 0.07% | AI-Native |
| Rapid | rapidapi.com | Dev Tools | Rapid is a platform that facilitates the connection to and management of a range of APIs. It provides tools for developers to discover, test, and integrate APIs. The platform supports API protocols, i | #97 | #201 | 0.14% | 0.06% | Traditional |
| Supabase | supabase.com | Dev Tools | Supabase is an open-source platform that serves as an alternative to Firebase. It provides developers with a set of tools including a Postgres database, authentication, real-time subscriptions, storag | #99 | #427 | 0.14% | 0.03% | Traditional |
| New Relic | newrelic.com | Infrastructure | New Relic offers a range of monitoring and debugging tools to help businesses improve their technology stack. The product is designed to address various business problems, including monitoring applica | #109 | #68 | 0.12% | 0.20% | Traditional |
| SonarSource | sonarsource.com | Dev Tools | SonarSource provides tools for developers and organizations to improve code quality and security. Their offerings include SonarLint, SonarQube, and SonarCloud, which integrate into development environ | #112 | #86 | 0.12% | 0.16% | Traditional |
| UptimeRobot | uptimerobot.com | Infrastructure | UptimeRobot is a platform offering website monitoring services. It helps users businesses ensure the uptime of their websites and notifies them immediately if their website goes down. The product offe | #114 | #634 | 0.12% | 0.01% | Traditional |
| Algolia | algolia.com | Dev Tools | Algolia is a search-as-a-service platform that allows the integration of real-time search into applications or websites. It provides a developer-friendly API for implementing search functionalities, e | #117 | #92 | 0.12% | 0.15% | Traditional |
| Grafana Labs | grafana.com | Observability & Monitoring | Grafana Labs, formerly Raintank, is an open observability platform that aims to help businesses visualize and analyze their data. The product offers a range of solutions, including Logs powered by Gra | #120 | #77 | 0.12% | 0.18% | Traditional |
| SonarCloud | sonarcloud.io | Dev Tools | SonarCloud offers online code review as a service. It aims to help development teams deliver clean code consistently and efficiently by providing instant feedback and analysis of code quality. The too | #121 | #133 | 0.12% | 0.11% | Traditional |
| Expo | expo.dev | Dev Tools | Expo is an open-source framework for developing apps that operate on Android, iOS, and the web. It merges the capabilities of mobile and web platforms, offering numerous features for app construction | #124 | #271 | 0.11% | 0.05% | Traditional |
| Retool | retool.com | Dev Tools | Retool is a development platform designed to expedite the creation of custom business software. As a no-code/low-code app builder with a drag-and-drop interface, it simplifies the process of developin | #128 | #255 | 0.11% | 0.05% | Traditional |
| ngrok | ngrok.com | Dev Tools | ngrok is a platform that provides secure tunnels to localhost and is primarily used for developing and testing webhooks and other web services. It allows developers to expose a local server behind a N | #130 | #589 | 0.11% | 0.02% | Traditional |
| TestRail by Gurock | testrail.com | Dev Tools | TestRail by Gurock provides software testing tools for QA and development teams. | #134 | #82 | 0.10% | 0.17% | Traditional |
| Bitrise | bitrise.io | Dev Tools | Bitrise is a Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) platform designed specifically for Mobile DevOps. It helps developers cut build times, speed up releases, and deploy their mobile apps with con | #154 | #269 | 0.08% | 0.05% | Traditional |
| Cypress | cypress.io | Testing & QA | Cypress is a JavaScript framework designed for component testing and end-to-end testing of modern web applications. It provides developers with a suite of features that streamline the process of writi | #156 | #298 | 0.08% | 0.04% | Traditional |
| SerpAPI | serpapi.com | Dev Tools | SerpApi.com provides an API for scraping search engine results pages. It returns SERP data in JSON format, facilitating the integration of search engine data into applications. The service also manage | #157 | #316 | 0.08% | 0.04% | Traditional |
| Cloudinary | cloudinary.com | Infrastructure | Cloudinary is a platform that provides a solution for image and video upload, storage, optimization, and content delivery network (CDN) services. Some of the key features of Cloudinary include program | #160 | #206 | 0.08% | 0.06% | Traditional |
| Better Stack | betterstack.com | Observability & Monitoring | Better Stack is a platform offering tools for website monitoring, incident management, log management, and observability dashboards to debug issues and resolve incidents across tech stacks. | #163 | #229 | 0.08% | 0.06% | Traditional |
| Elastic | elastic.co | Data | Elastic builds software to make data usable in real-time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases. The Elasticsearch Platform allows for monitoring of logs, application perf | #165 | #48 | 0.08% | 0.29% | Traditional |
| Launch Darkly | launchdarkly.com | Feature Flags & Experimentation | LaunchDarkly offers feature flag and toggle management by allowing businesses to control the deployment of features and the percentage of users who have access to them. It also enables A/B testing to | #169 | #174 | 0.07% | 0.08% | Traditional |
| Chromatic | chromatic.com | Dev Tools | Chromatic is a platform designed for web development, focusing on visual testing and UI testing. It serves as a tool for developers and teams to capture and manage visual UI snapshots of web applicati | #175 | #302 | 0.07% | 0.04% | Traditional |
| Fixer | fixer.io | Other | Fixer is a platform that provides an API for current and historical foreign exchange rates. Used by developers, SMBs, and large corporations, the API offers real-time exchange rate data for 170 world | #188 | #849 | 0.07% | 0.01% | Traditional |
| GitLab | about.gitlab.com | Dev Tools | GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git-repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking and CI/CD pipeline features. | #190 | #39 | 0.07% | 0.35% | AI-Embedded |
| HashiCorp | hashicorp.com | Dev Tools | HashiCorp is a company that develops infrastructure automation software. One of its prominent offerings is Terraform, an open-source tool designed for implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Terraf | #191 | #345 | 0.07% | 0.03% | Traditional |
| Readme | readme.com | Knowledge Management | ReadMe allows companies to quickly create documentation and build developer communities. | #192 | #351 | 0.06% | 0.03% | Traditional |
| Rollbar | rollbar.com | Observability & Monitoring | Rollbar is an error logging and tracking platform designed for software teams. It helps to proactively discover, predict, and resolve errors in real-time. The platform offers several features to impro | #193 | #259 | 0.06% | 0.05% | Traditional |
| Redis Labs | redislabs.com | Data | Redis Labs is the open-source home and commercial provider of Redis, a database. | #200 | #224 | 0.06% | 0.06% | Traditional |
| Category | Products | Popularity share | Spend share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering & DevOps | 783 | 18.78% | 17.26% |
| Marketing & Growth | 43 | 1.22% | 0.88% |
| IT & Security | 72 | 0.97% | 0.85% |
| Data & Analytics | 68 | 0.95% | 2.47% |
| Collaboration & Productivity | 70 | 0.60% | 0.59% |
| AI Platforms & Model Ops | 47 | 0.40% | 0.22% |
| Customer Success & Support | 7 | 0.10% | 0.11% |
| Sales & Revenue | 1 | 0.03% | 0.07% |
| People Ops & Talent | 3 | 0.02% | 0.06% |
| Operations & Supply Chain | 7 | 0.02% | 0.04% |
| Finance & Accounting | 4 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Legal, Risk & Compliance | 1 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Engineering tools currently hold 23.1% popularity share and 22.6% spend share of the tracked SaaS market; the interactive chart on this page tracks the month-by-month trend.
| Product | Website | Subcategory | Description | Popularity rank | Spend rank | Popularity share | Spend share | AI classification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firebender | firebender.com | Developer Tools & IDEs | Firebender is an AI-powered plugin for Android Studio that integrates directly into JetBrains IDEs. It enables code generation, inline edits, and terminal command execution using models like OpenAI’s | #449 | #1,241 | 0.03% | 0.00% | AI-Native |
| Laravel Nightwatch | nightwatch.laravel.com | Observability & Monitoring | Nightwatch for Laravel is a browser-based application monitoring tool that executes scheduled HTTP and browser checks for Laravel applications. It detects application downtime, SSL expiration, broken | #540 | #1,663 | 0.02% | 0.00% | Traditional |
| Meshy | meshy.ai | AI Development Tools | Meshy is an AI-powered 3D modeling platform that enables users to transform text prompts or 2D images into high-quality 3D models and animations. It offers features like text-to-3D conversion, image-t | #716 | #1,378 | 0.01% | 0.00% | AI-Native |
| Browserbase | browserbase.com | Hosting & Deployment | Browserbase offers a high-performance, serverless platform that enables developers to run, manage, and monitor headless browsers at scale, facilitating web automation and AI agent integration. | #923 | #2,257 | 0.01% | 0.00% | AI-Embedded |
| Cubic | cubic.dev | Developer Tools & IDEs | Cubic is an AI-powered code review platform that analyzes pull requests to detect logic errors, style inconsistencies, and potential vulnerabilities. It supports inline comments, one-click fixes, and | #764 | #1,354 | 0.01% | 0.00% | AI-Native |
Cursor is the most-used tool in engineering team stacks (3.1% market share), followed by Atlassian and GitHub, based on real purchasing data from Cledara.
Cledara tracks 1,106 products in active use by engineering teams across 12 categories. The full ranked list above updates monthly.
Firebender and Laravel Nightwatch are the fastest-rising tools in engineering stacks over the last 90 days by rank velocity.
From anonymized, aggregated software purchasing data across companies that manage their software with Cledara — real payments, not surveys. Last updated 27 July 2026, 16:41 UTC.