The Week 29 Engineering Software Report
A category-by-category reading of all ten Week 29 Engineering software markets, with verified Top 3 rankings, assistant splits, evidence counts, and official week-over-week movement.
The First Engineering Movement Report
This report covers Cooper's Week 29 Engineering software hub: ten category-relative Overall AIQ rankings measured across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity from July 13 through July 19, 2026, under scoring version aiq-v2.
The hub contains 304 unique products, 968 cited pages from 557 source domains, and 2,035 verified mentions. Hub totals deduplicate products and evidence shared across categories, so the category totals below remain separate market records.
Four of the ten Engineering category leaders changed from Week 28: Business Intelligence, Low-Code App Builders, Product Management, and Database as a Service. The other six markets retained their leaders.
How to Read This Report
Overall AIQ combines Cooper's Best, Most affordable, and Easiest to set up questions inside one category. Assistant columns show each product's category rank in that Overall scope. An em dash means no category rank from that assistant in this measurement, not a negative recommendation.
Sources count distinct verified domains and Mentions count distinct verified product-page relationships. Neither measure explains rank. Rising AIQ is separate, and the Week 29 Rising AIQ report covers that dimension independently.
Movement compares the same product, category, and Overall scope in the immutable Week 28 and Week 29 editions. Category links open the live ranking while Week 29 is current and will resolve to this edition's archive after rollover.
Business Intelligence
Open the complete Business Intelligence ranking| Rank | Product | AIQ | ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude | Perplexity | Sources | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Metabase | 45 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 2 | 29 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | |
| 3 | 28 | 2 | — | 4 | — | 3 | 5 |
Metabase leads Business Intelligence at Overall AIQ 45 with ranks of third, third, first, and first. Microsoft Power BI remains second at 29 from a first-place ChatGPT rank only.
Preset is third at 28 with ranks of second on ChatGPT and fourth on Claude only.
Metabase moved from fourth to first. Microsoft Power BI retained second, while
Preset rose 14 places from seventeenth to third. The Week 28 leader is outside the current Top 3.
Data Integration (ETL)
Open the complete Data Integration ranking| Rank | Product | AIQ | ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude | Perplexity | Sources | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Fivetran | 54 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 24 | |
| 3 | 14 | 3 | — | 12 | — | 3 | 4 |
Fivetran remains first in Data Integration at Overall AIQ 54 with ranks of first, seventh, first, and second. Airbyte remains second at 46 with ranks of second, first, second, and first.
Estuary Flow enters third at 14 with ranks of third and twelfth from ChatGPT and Claude only.
The first two products retained their positions. Estuary Flow had no Week 28 rank and enters third. Evidence records 20 sources and 25 mentions for first, 17 and 24 for second, and 3 and 4 for third.
Observability & APM
Open the complete Observability & APM ranking| Rank | Product | AIQ | ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude | Perplexity | Sources | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 20 | |
| 2 | 32 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 15 | 18 | |
| 3 | 28 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 26 |
Datadog remains first in Observability & APM at Overall AIQ 35 with ranks of third, first, second, and fifth.
Grafana Cloud is second at 32 with ranks of first, ninth, tenth, and third.
New Relic is third at 28 with ranks of second, seventh, fourth, and sixth.
The challengers reversed: Grafana Cloud moved from third to second and
New Relic moved from second to third. All three products are ranked by every assistant and record 18 sources and 20 mentions, 15 and 18, and 21 and 26 respectively.
CI/CD
Open the complete CI/CD ranking| Rank | Product | AIQ | ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude | Perplexity | Sources | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 93 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 43 | |
| 2 | 35 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 31 | 39 | |
| 3 | 25 | 2 | — | 4 | 4 | 10 | 11 |
GitHub Actions remains first in CI/CD at Overall AIQ 93 and ranks first on ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity.
CircleCI is second at 35 and ranks third with every assistant.
Bitbucket Pipelines is third at 25 with ranks of second, fourth, and fourth and no Gemini rank.
The unanimous leader retained first. CircleCI moved from third to second, while
Bitbucket Pipelines moved from fourth to third.
Feature Flags
Open the complete Feature Flags ranking| Rank | Product | AIQ | ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude | Perplexity | Sources | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 58 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 47 | |
| 2 | 29 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 22 | |
| 3 |  FlagSmith | 26 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 38 |
LaunchDarkly remains first in Feature Flags at Overall AIQ 58 with ranks of first, second, fourth, and first.
ConfigCat remains second at 29 with ranks of sixth, fourth, first, and second.
FlagSmith is third at 26 with ranks of third, sixth, sixth, and third.
The first two products retained their places. FlagSmith rose five places from eighth to third. All three are ranked by every assistant and record 27 sources and 47 mentions, 15 and 22, and 24 and 38 respectively.
Low-Code App Builders
Open the complete Low-Code App Builders ranking| Rank | Product | AIQ | ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude | Perplexity | Sources | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 10 | |
| 2 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 8 | |
| 3 |  Bubble | 22 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 12 |
OutSystems leads Low-Code App Builders at Overall AIQ 25 with ranks of second, thirteenth, third, and fourteenth.
Budibase is second at 23 with ranks of seventh, third, first, and ninth.
Bubble is third at 22 with ranks of eighth, second, eighth, and second.
OutSystems moved from second to first.
Budibase rose 13 places from fifteenth to second, and
Bubble moved from fifth to third. The Week 28 leader is outside the current Top 3.
Cloud Hosting (PaaS)
Open the complete Cloud Hosting ranking| Rank | Product | AIQ | ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude | Perplexity | Sources | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 62 | 1 | 5 | 12 | — | 18 | 27 | |
| 2 | 28 | 2 | 9 | 14 | — | 8 | 10 | |
| 3 |  Render | 28 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 26 |
Vercel remains first in Cloud Hosting at Overall AIQ 62 with ranks of first, fifth, and twelfth and no Perplexity rank.
Netlify is second at 28 with ranks of second, ninth, and fourteenth and no Perplexity rank.
Render is third, also at 28, with ranks of third, eighth, fourth, and tenth.
The challengers reversed: Netlify moved from third to second and
Render moved from second to third. Evidence records 18 sources and 27 mentions for first, 8 and 10 for second, and 17 and 26 for third.
Product Management
Open the complete Product Management ranking| Rank | Product | AIQ | ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude | Perplexity | Sources | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 25 | |
| 2 | 32 | 1 | — | 11 | 14 | 3 | 4 | |
| 3 | 32 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 29 |
Trello leads Product Management at Overall AIQ 35 with ranks of sixth, first, first, and third.
Jira Product Discovery is second at 32 with ranks of first, eleventh, and fourteenth and no Gemini rank.
Productboard is third, also at 32, with ranks of fourth, third, second, and second.
Trello moved from second to first,
Jira Product Discovery moved from fifth to second, and
Productboard moved from first to third. Evidence records 22 sources and 25 mentions, 3 and 4, and 25 and 29 respectively.
API Platforms
Open the complete API Platforms ranking| Rank | Product | AIQ | ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude | Perplexity | Sources | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 19 | |
| 2 |  Zuplo | 41 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 |  Amazon API Gateway | 20 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 3 | 3 |
Postman remains first in API Platforms at Overall AIQ 46 with ranks of first, eighth, fifth, and first.
Zuplo is second at 41 with ranks of second, eleventh, tenth, and fourth.
Postman retained first.
Zuplo rose five places from seventh to second, while
Database as a Service
Open the complete Database as a Service ranking| Rank | Product | AIQ | ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude | Perplexity | Sources | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 38 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | |
| 2 | 31 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 10 | |
| 3 |  Neon | 30 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Supabase leads Database as a Service at Overall AIQ 38 with ranks of third, fourth, first, and first.
MongoDB Atlas is second at 31 with ranks of seventh, first, fourth, and seventh.
Neon remains third at 30 with ranks of fifth, fifth, third, and second.
Supabase moved from second to first, while
MongoDB Atlas rose three places from fifth to second.
Neon retained third. All three are ranked by every assistant, and the Week 28 leader is outside the current Top 3.
What Changed Across Engineering
Nine of the ten Week 29 Engineering leaders are ranked by all four assistants. Vercel is ranked by three, while
GitHub Actions is the only leader ranked first by every assistant.
Four markets changed leaders. The largest Top 3 movements were Preset rising 14 places into third in Business Intelligence and
Budibase rising 13 places into second in Low-Code App Builders.
These are category-local rankings, not a combined Engineering leaderboard. The complete category links preserve each market context, and the immutable Week 29 Engineering archive preserves the edition after rollover.
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