Code Review ads in ChatGPT
Ads shown in ChatGPT conversations about Code Review. We recorded 151 conversations on this topic in logged-out ChatGPT; after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed 149 ads from 45 advertisers. Most often shown: CircleCI, Amplify Security and Legit Security.
Our captureLogged-out ChatGPT, USOct 3–4, 2026
Advertisers shown in Code Review conversations
top 25 of 45Ranked by how many of the conversations on this topic ended with their ad on screen; share of the 149 shown ads.
| # | Advertiser | Ads shown | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CircleCI | 36 | 24.2% |
| 2 | Amplify Security | 11 | 7.4% |
| 3 | Legit Security | 10 | 6.7% |
| 4 | CAST | 9 | 6.0% |
| 5 | Cybernews | 8 | 5.4% |
| 6 | StackHawk | 7 | 4.7% |
| 7 | Edge Delta | 6 | 4.0% |
| 8 | Atlassian | 5 | 3.4% |
| 9 | Blacksmith Software | 4 | 2.7% |
| 10 | DX | 4 | 2.7% |
| 11 | ProductPlan | 4 | 2.7% |
| 12 | ChatGPT | 3 | 2.0% |
| 13 | go.ai | 3 | 2.0% |
| 14 | BairesDev | 2 | 1.3% |
| 15 | Encore | 2 | 1.3% |
| 16 | GetApp | 2 | 1.3% |
| 17 | Jotform | 2 | 1.3% |
| 18 | LaunchDarkly | 2 | 1.3% |
| 19 | Momentic | 2 | 1.3% |
| 20 | StackAdapt | 2 | 1.3% |
| 21 | Aha! | 1 | 0.7% |
| 22 | American Musical Supply | 1 | 0.7% |
| 23 | Apexon | 1 | 0.7% |
| 24 | Arovy | 1 | 0.7% |
| 25 | Bluehost | 1 | 0.7% |
20 more advertisers shared the other 20 shown ads.
Ad formats
| Format | Ads shown | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Text ad (advertiser name and headline) | 149 | 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 31 times
- Amplify SecurityText ad
Get findings fixed
Shown 10 times
- StackHawkText ad
Ship Code More Securely
Shown 7 times
- Legit SecurityText ad
Agentic AppSec by Legit
Shown 7 times
- CybernewsText ad
Best Vibe Coding Tool 2026
Shown 7 times
- CASTText ad
Where is Your Tech Debt?
Shown 5 times
- Blacksmith SoftwareText ad
Faster GitHub Actions Runners
Shown 4 times
- DXText ad
Developer intelligence for the AI era
Shown 4 times
- Edge DeltaText ad
We gave AI teammates a real Linux box
Shown 3 times
- AtlassianText ad
Any agent. Any model. One team.
Shown 3 times
- go.aiText ad
Go.AI, On-Premises AI for Regulated Industries
Private AI On-Prem
Shown 3 times
- ProductPlanText ad
Product roadmap tools your team actually uses
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 “is an engineering metrics tool worth it or does it just create surveillance concerns”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from CAST.
Text ad: “Architectural Debt?”
Worth it question · Oct 4, 05:20 ET
In a conversation that began “best engineering productivity tool to measure review turnaround and cycle time without micromanaging”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Digital Heroes.
Text ad: “Award Winning Software Development”
Best for question · Oct 4, 05:31 ET
In a conversation that began “ellipsis vs coderabbit for a small team that wants ai to suggest fixes, not just comments”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Macroscope.
Text ad: “Safe PRs skip human review”
Comparison question · Oct 4, 05:29 ET
In a conversation that began “best tool for stacked diffs for engineers who came from meta or google and miss phabricator”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from StackHawk.
Text ad: “Ship Code More Securely”
Best for question · Oct 4, 02:04 ET
In a conversation that began “is greptile worth paying for”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Legit Security.
Text ad: “Agentic AppSec by Legit”
Worth it question · Oct 4, 02:49 ET
In a conversation that began “how to catch bugs in ai written pull requests”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Amplify Security.
Text ad: “Get findings fixed”
Fix or choose question · Oct 4, 00:16 ET
In a conversation that began “how much does graphite cost for a 60 engineer team that wants stacked prs and a merge queue”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from ProductPlan.
Text ad: “Product roadmap tools your team actually uses”
Price question · Oct 4, 01:00 ET
In a conversation that began “how much do engineering metrics platforms cost compared to the time saved on reviews”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Rootstrap.
Text ad: “Your Roadmap. Delivered.”
Price question · Oct 4, 03:11 ET
In a conversation that began “we have a 2 million line java codebase and want to find hotspots and risky areas before reviews, what tools help with that?”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Edge Delta.
Text ad: “What the Model Never Sees”
Long scenario question · Oct 4, 00:31 ET
In a conversation that began “how to keep pull requests small when features are big and touch many parts of the codebase”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Atlassian.
Text ad: “Any agent. Any model. One team.”
Fix or choose question · Oct 4, 00:22 ET
In a conversation that began “our cto wants ai review on every pr but worries about cost for 300 developers, what pricing models and tools make sense at scale?”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from CircleCI.
Text ad: “CI/CD Platform Built for Scale”
Long scenario question · Oct 3, 23:57 ET
In a conversation that began “best ai code review bot for a 30 developer team on github that wants useful comments, not noise”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Blacksmith Software.
Text ad: “Faster GitHub Actions Runners”
Best for question · Oct 3, 23:40 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 | 20.1% |
| Fix or choose | 23 | 15.4% |
| Long scenario | 23 | 15.4% |
| Comparison | 21 | 14.1% |
| Price | 22 | 14.8% |
| Short search | 15 | 10.1% |
| Worth it | 15 | 10.1% |
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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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