When asked for the best CI/CD tool, 6 AI assistants named 3 brands between them this month. GitHub Actions was named most often, followed by CircleCI and Jenkins. One brand was named by every assistant that answered: GitHub Actions.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Actions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| CircleCI | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Jenkins | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | 4 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 3 brands, in this order: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins.
Choosing the best CI/CD tool for a small business involves considering factors such as ease of use, cost, features, integrations, and support.
Perplexity
Named 2 brands, in this order: GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
For most small businesses, GitHub Actions is the best default CI/CD tool because it is low-friction, widely used by small teams, and tightly integrated with GitHub, which makes setup and onboarding fast.
Claude
Named 3 brands, in this order: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins.
Would you like help setting up a specific tool?
Grok
Named 3 brands, in this order: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins.
DeepSeek
Named 2 brands, in this order: GitHub Actions, CircleCI.
There's no single "best" CI/CD tool — the right choice depends on your stack, team size, and where you host things.
Cohere
Named 2 brands, in this order: GitHub Actions, CircleCI.
Choosing the best Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tool for a small business depends on several factors, including the team's technical expertise, budget, scalability needs, and the technologies used in the project.
The questions asked
- What is the best CI/CD tool for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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