CI/CD ads in ChatGPT
Ads shown in ChatGPT conversations about CI/CD. We recorded 150 conversations on this topic in logged-out ChatGPT; after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed 150 ads from 48 advertisers. Most often shown: CircleCI, Contabo and Blacksmith Software.
Our captureLogged-out ChatGPT, USOct 3–4, 2026
Advertisers shown in CI/CD conversations
top 25 of 48Ranked by how many of the conversations on this topic ended with their ad on screen; share of the 150 shown ads.
| # | Advertiser | Ads shown | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CircleCI | 49 | 32.7% |
| 2 | Contabo | 11 | 7.3% |
| 3 | Blacksmith Software | 8 | 5.3% |
| 4 | Edge Delta | 7 | 4.7% |
| 5 | Zesty Tech | 7 | 4.7% |
| 6 | LaunchDarkly | 6 | 4.0% |
| 7 | Atlassian | 5 | 3.3% |
| 8 | Cybernews | 3 | 2.0% |
| 9 | ScaleOps | 3 | 2.0% |
| 10 | Brain | 2 | 1.3% |
| 11 | Datamatics Global Services | 2 | 1.3% |
| 12 | Dynatrace | 2 | 1.3% |
| 13 | getastra.com | 2 | 1.3% |
| 14 | maia.ai | 2 | 1.3% |
| 15 | password-depot.de | 2 | 1.3% |
| 16 | ProductPlan | 2 | 1.3% |
| 17 | pump | 2 | 1.3% |
| 18 | qconferences.com | 2 | 1.3% |
| 19 | Tricentis Americas | 2 | 1.3% |
| 20 | vantage.sh | 2 | 1.3% |
| 21 | Vantix Servers | 2 | 1.3% |
| 22 | BairesDev | 1 | 0.7% |
| 23 | Binate Digital | 1 | 0.7% |
| 24 | bitdrift | 1 | 0.7% |
| 25 | Clear Skye | 1 | 0.7% |
23 more advertisers shared the other 23 shown ads.
Ad formats
| Format | Ads shown | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Text ad (advertiser name and headline) | 150 | 100.0% |
| Shopping ad (product name and price) | 0 | 0.0% |
Example ads
12 adsDistinct ads as shown (ignoring capitalization), most frequent first, one per advertiser where possible.
- CircleCIText ad
CI/CD Platform Built for Scale
Shown 25 times
- ContaboText ad
VPS 4 – 8 GB, from $5.28/mo
Shown 11 times
- Blacksmith SoftwareText ad
Faster GitHub Actions Runners
Shown 7 times
- LaunchDarklyText ad
LaunchDarkly - An Industry Leader in Feature Flags
Shown 6 times
- Edge DeltaText ad
We gave AI teammates a real Linux box
Shown 6 times
- AtlassianText ad
Any agent. Any model. One team.
Shown 4 times
- Zesty TechText ad
Zesty — Optimize Kubernetes & Cloud Commitments
Shown 3 times
- Vantix ServersText ad
Self-hosted macOS runner, flat $139/mo
Shown 2 times
- vantage.shText ad
VNTG, INC.
FinOps platform built for engineers
Shown 2 times
- qconferences.comText ad
InfoQ Online Cohorts
Agents Running in CI?
Shown 2 times
- pumpText ad
Save 20% on your company's cloud & LLM bills
Shown 2 times
- maia.aiText ad
Matillion Limited
Build Production Pipelines in Minutes
Shown 2 times
Example conversations
12 examplesChosen to cover different advertisers and question types. The question is quoted as we asked it; the follow-up message asked for a sponsored ad.
In a conversation that began “best self hosted ci for a company with code that can't leave our network”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Atlassian.
Text ad: “Agent output. Now 44% better.”
Best for question · Oct 4, 05:27 ET
In a conversation that began “best ci cd for a mobile team shipping ios and react native apps weekly to the app store and play store”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Binate Digital.
Text ad: “Turn Your App Idea Into Reality”
Best for question · Oct 4, 03:51 ET
In a conversation that began “our ci builds take 40 minutes and developers are frustrated, what should we look at first to speed them up”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from CircleCI.
Text ad: “CI/CD Platform Built for Scale”
Fix or choose question · Oct 4, 02:34 ET
In a conversation that began “how should we structure environments and approvals so deployments to production are safe but fast”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from BairesDev.
Text ad: “DevOps Staff Augmentation”
Fix or choose question · Oct 4, 00:38 ET
In a conversation that began “gitlab premium vs github enterprise for a company that wants source control, ci and security in one place”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from getastra.com.
Text ad: “Breachlock Alternative”
Comparison question · Oct 4, 03:41 ET
In a conversation that began “our startup is growing from 10 to 50 engineers and our ad hoc deploy scripts won't scale, what ci cd foundation should we set up now?”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from password-depot.de.
Text ad: “Für Teams gedacht”
Long scenario question · Oct 4, 05:23 ET
In a conversation that began “how much do github actions minutes cost for a team running 50,000 minutes a month on linux and macos”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from pump.
Text ad: “Save 20% on your company's cloud & LLM bills”
Price question · Oct 4, 02:43 ET
In a conversation that began “github actions vs buildkite for a 200 developer company with a big monorepo and expensive build minutes”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Edge Delta.
Text ad: “We gave AI teammates a real Linux box”
Comparison question · Oct 4, 03:30 ET
In a conversation that began “how much does harness cost for continuous delivery across 100 services”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from North.cloud.
Text ad: “Smarter AWS Commitments”
Price question · Oct 4, 04:52 ET
In a conversation that began “we're a 25 developer startup on github and our builds take 30 minutes on actions, should we buy faster runners or switch ci platforms?”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Contabo.
Text ad: “VPS 4 – 8 GB, from $5.28/mo”
Long scenario question · Oct 4, 02:00 ET
In a conversation that began “what's the best way to do canary deployments on kubernetes without building everything ourselves”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from ScaleOps.
Text ad: “Modern Infrastructure, Optimized”
Fix or choose question · Oct 4, 00:36 ET
In a conversation that began “best ci cd for a company on azure devops boards that wants to keep work items linked to releases”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from ProductPlan.
Text ad: “Product roadmap tools your team actually uses”
Best for question · Oct 4, 05:12 ET
Question types
How the conversations on this topic were asked, and how many of the shown ads came from each kind.
| Question type | Ads shown | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | 30 | 20.0% |
| Comparison | 23 | 15.3% |
| Price | 23 | 15.3% |
| Fix or choose | 22 | 14.7% |
| Long scenario | 22 | 14.7% |
| Short search | 15 | 10.0% |
| Worth it | 15 | 10.0% |
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How this data was captured
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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