Data as of
State of Developer Tools: October 2026
27 Developer Tools on AppFinder, 93% have a free plan, the median listed paid plan starts at $14 a month.
Every figure counts the published Developer Tools listings on AppFinder at the time above: what each listing says about its pricing, platforms, features and integrations. Nothing is estimated or sampled, and nothing here is paid for.
- Published apps
- 27
- With a free plan
- 93%
- Median listed starting price (14 apps)
- $14/mo
- Launches in Oct so far
- 0
Pricing models
Free plan + paid plans
70% of apps
19 of 27 apps
Open source
19% of apps
5 of 27 apps
Paid
7% of apps
2 of 27 apps
Free
4% of apps
1 of 27 apps
Platforms
An app can list several platforms.
Web
78% of apps
21 of 27 apps
macOS
44% of apps
12 of 27 apps
Windows
44% of apps
12 of 27 apps
iOS
33% of apps
9 of 27 apps
Android
30% of apps
8 of 27 apps
Linux
26% of apps
7 of 27 apps
Most listed features
The 10 most common of 50 distinct features listed in this category.
Public API
56% of apps
15 of 27 apps
CI/CD
33% of apps
9 of 27 apps
Roles & permissions
26% of apps
7 of 27 apps
AI assistant
22% of apps
6 of 27 apps
AI code completion
22% of apps
6 of 27 apps
Hosting & deployments
22% of apps
6 of 27 apps
Logs & observability
22% of apps
6 of 27 apps
Single sign-on (SSO)
22% of apps
6 of 27 apps
Terminal
22% of apps
6 of 27 apps
AI agents
19% of apps
5 of 27 apps
Most listed integrations
GitHub
67% of apps
18 of 27 apps
Slack
63% of apps
17 of 27 apps
GitLab
41% of apps
11 of 27 apps
Bitbucket
30% of apps
8 of 27 apps
Microsoft Teams
30% of apps
8 of 27 apps
AWS
26% of apps
7 of 27 apps
Jira
26% of apps
7 of 27 apps
Linear
15% of apps
4 of 27 apps
Launches per month
Apps in this category whose launch date fell in each month (UTC).
0
May
0
Jun
0
Jul
0
Aug
0
Sep
0
Oct
Prices: 14 of 27 apps list a starting price for a paid plan. The lowest is $4 a month; the median shown is a real listed price (the lower middle value). Apps without a listed price, or with contact-sales pricing, are not counted.
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AppFinder, "State of Developer Tools: October 2026", data as of 2026-10-26. https://appfinder.tech/state-of/developer-tools