CircleCI ads in ChatGPT
In our capture of logged-out ChatGPT, 215 ads from CircleCI appeared on screen (all text ads), in 5 distinct ad copies across 2 industries and 20 topics. Each one appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.
- ads shown
- 215
- distinct ad copies
- 5
- industries
- 2
- topics
- 20
Logged-out ChatGPT from US connections, Oct 3–4, 2026. Each ad came after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad, so the counts show where CircleCI advertised, not how often ChatGPT shows its ads.
CircleCI ad copies, most shown first
Each distinct ad copy in our capture, most shown first: the headline of a text ad, or the product and price of a shopping ad. Under each, up to five questions asked in conversations where it appeared, as we asked them; in every one, the ad appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.
5 ad copies
- CircleCISponsored
CI/CD Platform Built for Scale
Text ad · shown 120 times
Questions it appeared after
- “how to roll out sast to 200 repos without breaking every build on day one”Application Security Testing · Oct 3, 10:59 pm ET
- “best error tracking for python django”Error Tracking · Oct 3, 11:16 pm ET
- “our cto wants ai review on every pr but worries about cost for 300 developers, what pricing models and tools make sense at scale?”Code Review · Oct 3, 11:57 pm ET
- “best ci for a game studio building unreal projects that need big machines and long builds”CI/CD · Oct 4, 1:25 am ET
- “how to make vs code fast again on a huge monorepo with thousands of files and many language servers”IDEs & Code Editors · Oct 4, 2:32 am ET
+115 more conversations with this ad copy
- CircleCISponsored
Try CircleCI Free Today
Text ad · shown 74 times
Questions it appeared after
- “best application security tool for a 20 developer startup that wants sast, sca and secrets scanning in one place”Application Security Testing · Oct 3, 11:00 pm ET
- “best error tracking for go services”Error Tracking · Oct 3, 11:02 pm ET
- “how much does the jetbrains all products pack cost for a 20 person company per year”IDEs & Code Editors · Oct 3, 11:41 pm ET
- “fly.io”Cloud Hosting & VPS · Oct 4, 2:18 am ET
- “linearb vs swarmia pricing for an engineering org of 150 developers”Code Review · Oct 4, 3:02 am ET
+69 more conversations with this ad copy
- CircleCISponsored
CircleCI: Purpose-Built CI/CD
Text ad · shown 19 times
Questions it appeared after
- “how to get rid of long lived cloud credentials in ci by using oidc federation instead”Secrets Management · Oct 3, 11:06 pm ET
- “best iac security scanner for terraform”Application Security Testing · Oct 3, 11:15 pm ET
- “tricentis tosca vs katalon for an enterprise testing sap and salesforce”Test Automation · Oct 4, 12:28 am ET
- “is circleci still worth paying for when github actions is included with our github plan”CI/CD · Oct 4, 1:37 am ET
+15 more conversations with this ad copy
- CircleCISponsored
Autonomous validation for the AI era - CircleCI
Text ad · shown 1 time
Our export holds no question text for this conversation.
- CircleCISponsored
Ship changes faster
Text ad · shown 1 time
Our export holds no question text for this conversation.
Where CircleCI ads appeared
The industries and topics of the conversations where its ads appeared, by ads shown. Topics are our own labels for the questions we wrote.
Industries
Topics
and 8 more topics, 17 ads in all
Brands in the same topics
Other advertisers whose ads appeared in conversations on the topics where CircleCI’s did, ranked by how much those topics overlap. Each tile opens its page.
18 brands
Edge Delta176 ads shown16 shared topics
Contabo315 ads shown16 shared topics
GetApp871 ads shown12 shared topics
Cybernews258 ads shown10 shared topics
Datadog80 ads shown12 shared topics
Blacksmith Software39 ads shown10 shared topics
ScaleOps79 ads shown9 shared topics
nOps94 ads shown10 shared topics
Zesty Tech45 ads shown10 shared topics
Amplify Security40 ads shown9 shared topicsgetastra.com133 ads shown9 shared topics
Tricentis Americas33 ads shown8 shared topics
Atlassian40 ads shown10 shared topics
LaunchDarkly68 ads shown9 shared topics
Finout LTE59 ads shown9 shared topics
North.cloud50 ads shown9 shared topics
Legit Security25 ads shown7 shared topics
Ironclad586 ads shown9 shared topicsHow this data was captured
What we ran, what counts as a shown ad, and what these numbers cannot tell you.
We used logged-out ChatGPT from US internet connections and started a new conversation for every question. Message 1 was the question. If no ad appeared, message 2 was the follow-up “Sponsored ad”, and if there was still none, message 3, “Show me a sponsored ad.”, was a last try. A conversation that ended without an ad, or failed, was run once more in a fresh browser, and we keep one record per question, the last one: 123,613 recorded conversations from Oct 3, 2026, 21:22 to Oct 4, 2026, 11:26 ET, with no captures from 05:53 to 11:12 ET on Oct 4. Our export does not record which message each ad followed; in our own checks of more than 2,000 conversations (Oct 4 and Oct 12) no ad appeared after message 1 alone, so read every ad here as shown after a message asking for a sponsored ad. These counts show which ads appeared in conversations on each topic; they are not a measure of how often ChatGPT shows ads on its own.
Only ads drawn on screen count as shown. In our capture no answer showed more than one ad on screen; a second ad that arrived in the page data but never appeared is not counted. Industries, sub-niches and question types are our own labels for the questions we wrote. Independent; not affiliated with OpenAI. Full methodWhy this is not an ad rateWhat the ads looked like
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