---
title: "LLMs — Technology data 2026"
url: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/da-llm
year: 2026
chapter: "technology"
question: "DA_LLM"
section: "Admired and Desired"
licence: "ODbL 1.0 (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/)"
---

# LLMs

75% have used Anthropic LLMs in the last year, and 61% want to keep using them; 74% have used OpenAI LLMs, 42% want to keep using them.

Asked as: Which LLM model vendors for AI tools have you used for work in the past year? Which would you like to use next year? Select all that apply. (`LLM`, scale, optional, v2026.1)

## Options offered

1. OpenAI
2. Anthropic
3. Google AI
4. Meta AI
5. Mistral AI
6. Voyage AI (MongoDB)
7. Cohere
8. Microsoft
9. xAI
10. DeepSeek
11. Databricks (DBRX)
12. Moonshot AI
13. Black Forest Labs
14. Alibaba Qwen
15. Snowflake
16. Stability AI
17. Reka
18. 01.AI
19. Zhipu AI
20. Guide Labs
21. Cascade
22. Luel
23. Other, please specify (with free-text entry)

## Results

_Desired = "Want to use" / Admired = "Have used" & "Want to use"_

### All Respondents

n = 11,895

|  | Desired | Admired |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| Anthropic | 49.1% | 60.5% |
| OpenAI | 32.2% | 41.5% |
| Google AI | 26.3% | 44.5% |
| DeepSeek | 12.8% | 43.6% |
| Microsoft | 9.7% | 32.6% |
| Mistral AI | 8.9% | 43.7% |
| Alibaba Qwen | 8.5% | 52.5% |
| Moonshot AI | 4.5% | 58.2% |
| xAI | 4.4% | 37.2% |
| Meta AI | 2.8% | 26.0% |
| Zhipu AI | 2.5% | 64.6% |
| Snowflake | 1.8% | 35.0% |
| Databricks (DBRX) | 1.6% | 37.1% |
| Black Forest Labs | 1.4% | 54.2% |
| Cohere | 1.1% | 37.5% |
| Voyage AI (MongoDB) | 0.9% | 39.1% |
| Stability AI | 0.8% | 36.3% |
| 01.AI | 0.7% | 46.4% |
| Cascade | 0.7% | 41.5% |
| Luel | 0.7% | 48.8% |
| Guide Labs | 0.6% | 53.8% |
| Reka | 0.5% | 48.7% |
| Minimax | 0.1% | 69.2% |
| GLM | 0.1% | 50.0% |

In context: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data.md