CI/CD AI visibility leaderboard
CI/CD tools help platform engineering teams build, test and ship code automatically. Buyers increasingly start this search inside AI assistants, which narrow 45 vendors down to a shortlist of three to five.
- GitHub leads CI/CD with an AI visibility score of 83.3 and appears in 89% of AI answers about CI/CD (SlateIndex, Nov 3, 2026).
- AI engines named 45 CI/CD brands; GitHub, GitLab and Jenkins hold 34% of all mentions.
- The engines disagree on the leader: ChatGPT favours GitHub (87), Perplexity favours GitLab (71.8) and Google AI Mode favours GitHub (92.4).
- toolradar.com is the most cited source for CI/CD, with 6.7% of citations.
Data collected ·ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode·coverage 100%·next run
Where vendors stand in CI/CD
8 brands shown: 4 Consensus Picks and 4 Challengers. No brand clears both lines yet — the Leader position is open.
| Brand | Mention rate | Citation authority | Answers citing own site | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitLab | 92.6% | 31.5% | 23 of 73 | Consensus Pick |
| GitHub | 88.9% | 33.3% | 24 of 72 | Consensus Pick |
| Jenkins | 69.1% | 17.9% | 10 of 56 | Consensus Pick |
| CircleCI | 66.7% | 37% | 20 of 54 | Consensus Pick |
| Buildkite | 45.7% | 35.1% | 13 of 37 | Challenger |
| Bitbucket Pipelines | 38.3% | 6.5% | 2 of 31 | Challenger |
| Kubernetes | 38.3% | 3.2% | 1 of 31 | Challenger |
| Docker | 33.3% | 0% | 0 of 27 | Challenger |
Leaderboard
Brands mentioned in AI answers in the weekly run of Nov 3. Engines disagree on the leader: GitHub, GitLab.
From audit to execution, Slate’s AEO team gets your brand into the answers buyers read.
Visibility score trend
Weekly runs over the last 60 days, top 8 brands. Click a name to hide or show its line.
GitHub leads CI/CD at 83.3%. Changes appear after the second weekly run.
Prompts in CI/CD
The buyer questions SlateIndex runs for this category every week.
Most cited sources
Where engines get their information when they answer CI/CD prompts.
| Source | Type | Share of citations | Citations | Prompts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| toolradar.com | Web | 39 | 18 | |
| jetbrains.com | Web | 35 | 15 | |
| github.com | Brand site | 30 | 19 | |
| gitlab.com | Brand site | 29 | 20 | |
| microsoft.com | Web | 25 | 11 | |
| amazon.com | Web | 23 | 9 | |
| circleci.com | Brand site | 23 | 17 | |
| atlassian.com | Web | 16 | 7 | |
| buildkite.com | Brand site | 14 | 13 | |
| northflank.com | Brand site | 13 | 12 | |
| rankite.com | Web | 13 | 9 | |
| harness.io | Brand site | 12 | 10 | |
| g2.com | Review site | 10 | 4 | |
| jenkins.io | Brand site | 10 | 10 | |
| semaphore.io | Brand site | 10 | 9 | |
| ciopages.com | Web | 8 | 8 | |
| dupple.com | Web | 8 | 7 | |
| octopus.com | Brand site | 8 | 5 | |
| spacelift.io | Web | 7 | 5 | |
| google.com | Web | 6 | 4 | |
| travis-ci.com | Brand site | 6 | 3 | |
| accelq.com | Web | 5 | 5 | |
| bitbucket.org | Brand site | 5 | 3 | |
| citehawk.com | Web | 5 | 4 | |
| guideflow.com | Web | 5 | 5 |
All vendors in CI/CD
Every CI/CD brand tracked by SlateIndex.
Compare the leaders
CI/CD in AI answers: questions
Which CI/CD software do AI assistants recommend most?
GitHub, GitLab and Jenkins are recommended most often. GitHub leads with an AI visibility score of 83.3 and appears in 89% of answers (data of Nov 3, 2026).
Which CI/CD tool do ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode recommend?
ChatGPT puts GitHub first (87), Perplexity puts GitLab first (71.8) and Google AI Mode puts GitHub first (92.4).
Which sources do AI engines cite for CI/CD?
toolradar.com (6.7%), jetbrains.com (6.1%) and github.com (5.2%) are cited most often in answers about CI/CD.
How is the CI/CD ranking calculated?
SlateIndex asks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode 30 CI/CD buyer questions every week and scores each brand by how often and how high it appears in their answers. The methodology page has the formulas.
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Cite as: SlateIndex, “CI/CD AI visibility leaderboard”, https://slateindex.ai/category/ci-cd, data of Nov 3, 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.