Which dev tools does Claude recommend?
Developers don't Google tools or browse Stack Overflow anymore. They ask Claude Code, and install whatever comes back. This is the first leaderboard for where your brand ranks in AI-driven dev-tool discovery.
The Claude Code leaderboard
Share of voice per category across 6 open-source SaaS repos. Click a brand to see Claude's reasoning.
“App Router + RSC fits marketing pages plus authed scheduling dashboards.”
“Edge middleware is ideal for ultra-low-latency link redirects.”
“Server actions fit document upload and signer-routing workflows.”
“Dashboards plus a public survey-response API on one deploy.”
The search journey for dev tools has changed.
"Best Postgres hosting" was a search query. Tabs of blog posts. You skimmed, compared, decided.
Community answers surfaced the few tools that actually worked. Votes were the ranking signal.
Claude suggests the tool inside the workflow — and installs it before you've opened a browser tab.
If Claude isn't picking your brand, you're losing the modern dev-tool discovery channel.
Methodology
We run this prompt pattern across 6 popular open-source SaaS repos, collect Claude's primary picks per category, and compute share of voice as picks_for_brand / repos_with_category × 100. Here's a sample exchange:
For this I'd start with:
Next.js for the app (App Router fits marketing pages plus authed dashboards),
Postgres +
Prisma for the data layer,
NextAuth.js for Google / Office365 OAuth, deploy on
Vercel, style with
Tailwind CSS +
Radix UI,
Resend for booking emails,
Stripe for paid tiers,
Inngest to schedule reminder jobs, and
Sentry to catch timezone bugs users can't reproduce.
This is a v0 snapshot across 6 repos, dated April 2026. On the roadmap: weekly refresh with real week-over-week deltas, expansion to ChatGPT / Cursor / Gemini for cross-model comparison, and a deeper dataset.
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