Business Intelligence
Named by 1 of 4 assistants
AIQ55
Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ45Named by 2 of 4 assistants
AIQ30
+8 more products
AI-recommended Engineering Software
How ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity rank 143 products across 10 Engineering categories in the Edition 3 snapshot for Week 30, July 26, 2026, backed by 1,022 cited pages from 550 domains.
Data Integration (ETL)
Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ74
Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ43Named by 1 of 4 assistants
AIQ28
+15 more products
Observability & APM
Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ95Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ48Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ32
+10 more products
CI/CD
Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ100Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ50Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ30
+8 more products
Feature Flags
Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ100Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ49
Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ23
+9 more products
Low-Code App Builders
Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ95Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ48
Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ27
+12 more products
Cloud Hosting (PaaS)
Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ68Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ44Named by 2 of 4 assistants
AIQ30
+8 more products
Product Management
Aha!1Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ85Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ65Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ25
+12 more products
API Platforms
Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ90Named by 2 of 4 assistants
AIQ29Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ21
+11 more products
Database as a Service
Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ88Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ41Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ36
+10 more products
Movers in Edition 3
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Spots lost
Down 10 positions
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This Edition’s News
Reporting from Cooper’s Edition 3 software recommendation index.
Index Update
The Cooper Index, Edition 3: Four Direct Rankings Across 80 Software Categories
Edition 3 records what ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity recommend across 80 business software categories, with distinct rankings for Best, Most affordable, Easiest to set up, and Rising.
Rising AIQ
Edition 3 Rising AIQ Report
Eight category-relative Rising AIQ movements show how emerging-product recommendations changed across Cooper’s third immutable edition.
Category Report
Edition 3 Engineering Software Report
A category-by-category reading of all ten Edition 3 Engineering markets, with Best Top 3 tables and separate Most affordable, Easiest to set up, and Rising analysis.