“I lead developer marketing or DevRel”
Adoption and churn benchmarks by region and company size, so you can decide where to aim your programme next and what to say about it.
Benchmarks for developer marketing and DevRelBest-in-class research on how AI is reshaping software development, for the world’s top technology companies
See which tools developers choose, which they abandon, and why, so your next product, pricing and marketing decisions rest on what developers actually do.
- Developers surveyed a year
- 30,000+
- Countries reached
- 160+
- Tracking trends
- Since 2008
Trusted by the top technology companies
From hyperscalers and chip vendors to open source foundations.
- Microsoft
- Meta
- NVIDIA
- Salesforce
- OpenRouter
- Red Hat
- Mozilla
- CNCF
- Progress Software
- Twilio
- Okta
Tracking software development trends since 2008
Our signature survey, the State of the Developer Nation, runs twice a year, with more than 11,000 developers in every wave. We publish which tools and platforms they use, which they drop, and where they are heading.
- Tracking
- Since 2008
- software development trends, wave over wave
- Sample
- 30,000+
- developers surveyed a year
- Reach
- 160+
- countries reached
Helping product, platform, and engineering leaders make better product, marketing, and technology decisions
“I build AI platforms”
Adoption and sentiment by role, size and region. Bottom-up sizing for an investment case. Willingness to pay by cohort.
Research for AI platform teams
“I run engineering”
Independent evidence on what AI tooling actually delivers. Benchmarks of AI developer tools. Which roles to hire as AI changes coding.
Insights for engineering leadersMeet the team tracking the software development economy
Seasoned technology analysts, published and cited across the industry. They design every survey, run the analysis and review each other’s work. One of them joins your calls.
Liam Bollmann-Dodd
Principal Market Research Consultant
Nikita Solodkov
Principal Research Consultant
Bleona Bicaj
Principal Research Consultant
Jed Stephens
Senior Data Scientist
Alex Veritsis
Senior Survey Operations Analyst
Evgenia Dimitriadi
Data Analyst
Eleni-Christina Gkampoura
Data Analyst
Myriam Boualami
Market Research Analyst
Get the answers to your exact questions
A survey we run for you: your own questions, either added to our next wave or fielded as a study of their own. One-to-one developer interviews. Time with the analyst who ran the study, to work through what it means for your decision.
Where developers drop off in your product adoption
How you compare with the tools you compete against
What each cohort will pay, before you change pricing
Which channels and content actually engage developers
Shining the light on the software development economy
We work with the world’s top technology companies to track the software development economy. Co-branded research on primary developer data, to establish thought leadership ahead of your next product launch, event or press moment.
Recent co-branded work with
- Mozilla
Best-in-class research, benchmarks and foresight into how developers, tools, teams, and software are changing
Before you commit a budget you need to know which tools and platforms developers are adopting, which they are dropping, and how fast. That is what we measure, across more than 30,000 developers a year. Read our research, then bring us the question you actually need answered.
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What do you need to know about the software development economy to support your next product or marketing decision?