This week’s race
Google Cloud holds the top of the sub.
Power ranking
Who leads this sub.
This week?
Google Cloud climbed twenty-three positions to land at number two, the biggest move of the week in the For Developers category. Microsoft holds first. Airtable and Zapier each fell twelve spots, dropping to nineteen and twenty-two respectively. SmartBear and OVHcloud entered the rankings at twelve and twenty.
The questions?
These rankings answer 3 buyer questions. Open any one for the head-to-head.
The subcategory score is an aggregate. Each question has its own AI ranking, reviewer check and weekly movement — that's where the picks actually come from.
Act one
Where the machines rank them.
Three AI models rank every brand in this sub — who just arrived, the full board, the lineups each fields, and who owns each trait.
Newcomers
Just arrived.
new · Jun 2026
#92
new · Jun 2026
#82 · in best api development tools
new · Jun 2026
#74 · in best api development tools
new · Jun 2026
#91
new · Jun 2026
#89 · in best cloud hosting providers
new · Jun 2026
#100
new · Jun 2026
#77 · in best api development tools
new · Jun 2026
#79 · in best api development tools
new · Jun 2026
#97
Full ranking
Every brand ranked.
Amazon Web ServicesFlagshipAmazon EC2 C8g Instances· #14
as of June 15 · vs June 16 · 3 intents?
Brand portfolios
What each brand fields here.
Tag champions
Who owns each trait in this sub.
Act two · ★ new
What people & press say.
Where the AI ranking and the reviewers part ways — and which of these brands are making news right now.
In the press
Which brands are making news.
3 brands in For Developers drew coverage in the last 30 days — the mood is mixed.?
MicrosoftCritical
Microsoft faces security and disclosure criticism while advancing AI initiatives and gaming offerings, with staff morale concerns and datacenter expansion scrutiny offsetting product announcements.
via Business Insider, XBOX Wire, NVIDIA Newsroom · 8 stories
GooglePositive
Google faces regulatory pressure from EU sovereignty concerns and malware abuse of its search platform, while gaining positive coverage for AI innovation, infrastructure sustainability, and helpful pr
via CNET, The Hacker News, Research at Google · 8 stories
KONGMixed
Coverage is dominated by Nintendo's Donkey Kong game releases and positive news about individuals named Kong, with no brand-specific criticism.
via Savannah Morning News, nintendo.com, University of Colorado Boulder · 8 stories
as of June 4 · 3 brands?
Act three
How the models think.
Where each brand actually competes across the buyer questions, and the running ledger of what just moved in this sub.
Ledger?
What just moved in this sub.
- ▼ fall#28 → #98
- ▼ fall#23 → #90
- ▼ fall#18 → #59
- ▼ fall#27 → #63
- ▼ fall#11 → #44
- ✦ debutdebut at #9
- ▲ climb#24 → #6
- ✦ debutdebut at #13
- ▼ fall#26 → #43
- ✦ debutdebut at #16
- ✦ debutdebut at #17
- ▼ fall#9 → #22
- ▼ fall#10 → #23
- ▲ climb#13 → #1
- ▼ fall#6 → #18
- ▼ fall#16 → #28
- ▼ fall#25 → #37
- ✦ debutdebut at #19
- ▼ fall#20 → #31
- ✦ debutdebut at #21
about for developers
Pick by what you need
- buying intents · in products →
- Best Cloud Hosting Providers
- Best API Development Tools
- Best No-Code Platforms
interesting facts from for developers
The brands here build tools for people who code. Some sell speed and simplicity. Others sell depth and control. GitHub moves the crowd. JetBrains owns the IDE. AWS handles scale. Vercel bets on the front end. Each one knows its ground and defends it.
A developer picks based on what they need to ship and where they work. The best choice depends on the team size, the problem at hand, and how much friction matters. Some brands have outlasted trends. Others arrived late and moved fast. The field keeps moving.
The brand rail stops here. For the individual products inside this sub, switch to the product view.