Competitive spaces are product categories in which one or more companies vie for customers. As companies grow they typically build beyond their initial product and become a multi-product company that contends for more than one category at a time.

There are five top-level categories tracked in Plushcap: AI, Data, Computing infrastructure, Software creation tools, and Other (a catch-all for competitive spaces that did not neatly fit into the other four top-level categories).

Within these five top-level categories are the more detailed competitive spaces. For example, the LLM Prompt Evaluation competitive space is under the AI top-level category.

If I've miscategorized a company or am missing a space, just email me [email protected] and I will investigate.

Top-level competitive categories
AI
Computing infrastructure
Data
Software creation tools
Other

Compute infrastructure and APIs

Space Companies
Speech Understanding, Transcription, and Voice Bots AssemblyAI, Deepgram, Gladia, Hume, Speechmatics, Symbl.ai, Vapi
Headless CMS Contentful, Gatsby, Prismic, Sanity, Storyblok, Strapi
Video infrastructure 100ms, Agora, Cloudflare, Daily, Dolby.io, LiveKit, Mux, Twilio, Video SDK, Vonage
Email APIs Postmark, Resend, Twilio
Webhook services Convoy, Hookdeck, Lunar.dev, Sequin, Svix
Feature flags DevCycle, Flagsmith, GrowthBook, Harness, Hypertune, LaunchDarkly, PostHog, Prefab, Split, Statsig, Tggl, Unleash, Vercel
Authorization and identity management Authentik Security, AuthZed, Clerk, Descope, FusionAuth, Ory, Oso, Permit.io, Persona, PropelAuth, Stytch, SuperTokens, Userfront, WorkOS
Cloud cost management Archera, Cast AI, Infracost, Vantage
Search-as-a-service Algolia, ChaosSearch, Elastic, Exa, Objective, Rockset
Containerized app hosting DigitalOcean, Gitpod, Netlify, Supabase, Vercel
Infrastructure instrumentation Datadog, Logz.io, Lumigo, Observe, PagerDuty, Polar Signals, Rollbar
Hosted backend infrastructure-as-a-service Cloudflare, Convex, DBOS, DigitalOcean, Directus, HarperDB, Inngest, Koyeb, Netlify, PlanetScale, Platform.sh, Railway, Render, Replit, Supabase, Vercel, Webflow
Usage-based billing infrastructure Lago, Metronome, OpenMeter, Orb, Togai
Notifications infrastructure Courier, Knock, Raven, Twilio
Code integrations Integration App, Merge, Nango, Prismatic, Unified.to
Application monitoring (APM) Better Stack, Checkly, Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana Labs, Highlight.io, Instabug, Logz.io, New Relic, Rollbar, Sleuth
Secrets management Doppler, Evervault, HashiCorp, Infisical
GraphQL tools Apollo, Hasura, Inigo
Infrastructure Observability & Logging Axiom, Better Stack, Coralogix, Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana Labs, Komodor, Logz.io, New Relic, Observe, Sentry, Shoreline, Sysdig, Vantage, vFunction
Workflow automation & asynchronous processing Clarifai, Eden AI, n8n, Nanonets, Prefect, Restate, Temporal, Tines, Trigger.dev, Zapier
Resource access automation Antimatter, Veza
Web scraping Bright Data, Browserbase
Language translation API DeepL, Lokalise
Content delivery networks (CDNs) Cloudflare, Edgee, Fastly
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Flightcontrol, Fly.io, PlanetScale, Platform.sh, Ploomber, Rescale
API gateway and usage Ambassador, Kong, Moesif, Pipedream, Postman, Pynt, Rapid, Tyk
Communications 100ms, Ably, Bandwidth, Mux, Nylas, Postmark, Stream, Twilio, Vonage

Data companies

Space Companies
Real-time data infrastructure Ably, Aerospike, CData, ClickHouse, Confluent, DeltaStream, Ditto, Imply, LiveKit, Momento, PartyKit, PubNub, Pusher, Redis, Redpanda, Streamkap, WarpStream
Time series data InfluxData, QuestDB, Timescale
Vector database Activeloop, Chroma, DataStax, Elastic, Epsilla, Marqo, Pinecone, Qdrant, Ragie, Vectara, Vectorize, Voyage AI, Weaviate, Zilliz
Data connectors Airbyte, Aiven, CData, Confluent, dbt, Fivetran, GlareDB, Onehouse, Redpanda, Select Star, Starburst
Managed database Cockroach Labs, Couchbase, DBOS, Dragonfly, EdgeDB, Elastic, FalkorDB, Fauna, Memgraph, MongoDB, Neo4j, Neon, PeerDB, Ragie, Redis, ScyllaDB, SingleStore, SurrealDB, Tembo, Tessell, TigerGraph, Turso, Upstash, Yugabyte
Data quality & observability Acceldata, Arize, Cleanlab, Datafold, Langfuse, LogicLoop, Metaplane, Portkey, Soda, WhyLabs
Mapping, geospatial, and space data Carto, Felt, Mapbox, OurSky
Data pipeline tools Airbyte, Astronomer, Bodo, CData, Census, Chalk, ChaosSearch, Cleanlab, ClickHouse, Confluent, Cube, Dagster, Datafold, Datagran, Dataiku, dbt, dltHub, DoubleCloud, Duality, Fivetran, Foundational, Hatchet, Imply, Kestra, LogicLoop, Matillion, Mostly AI, Onehouse, Streamkap, Tecton
Multimodal databases Aerospike, LanceDB, Objective, TileDB
Data providers Checkr, Clearbit
Data visualizations Dataiku, Hex, Metabase, Mostly AI, Motif Analytics, OpenSauced, PostHog, Preset, Rill, Sigma, Supersimple, Tinybird
Customer data platform (CDP) Klaviyo, Snowplow, Twilio

Software creation tools

Space Companies
Automated testing BrowserStack, Cypress, Instabug, LambdaTest, Octomind, Sauce Labs, testRigor, WireMock
Low-code application builder Bubble, Fastn, FlutterFlow, n8n, Retool, Stacker, Superblocks, VectorShift
Code review Aviator, Axolo, CodeRabbit, CodeSee, Graphite, Greptile, Semgrep, Sonar
Product planning & analytics Chameleon, Frigade, Heap, Linear, LogRocket, Mixpanel, Propel Data, Swarmia
Bug reports Jam, Replay
Chaos engineering Gremlin, Harness, Steadybit
SDK / Helper Library Generators for APIs APIMATIC, Fern, Liblab, Speakeasy, Stainless
Continuous integration Bitrise, BuildBuddy, Buildkite, CircleCI, Codefresh, Dagger, Earthly, Harness, Ionic, Mergify, Nx, Semaphore, Sleuth
Incident response FireHydrant, Incident.io, PagerDuty
Code security Arnica, Chainguard, Endor Labs, GitGuardian, Greptile, HoundDog.ai, JFrog, Semgrep, Snyk, Socket, Sonar
Text editors, IDEs and dev environments Coder, Cursor, Daytona, DevZero, Gitpod, JetBrains, Lightning AI, LocalStack, Ngrok, PopSQL, Qodo, Replit, StackBlitz, Tabnine, Tailscale, Warp, Zed
Software components and code libraries Bit, Ionic
Technical documentation APIMATIC, Bump, Fern, Mintlify, Multiplayer, MutableAI, ReadMe, Redocly, Stoplight, Swimm
DevOps tools Ambassador, Bitrise, BuildBuddy, Buildkite, CircleCI, Cloudsmith, Codefresh, Firefly, FireHydrant, Flightcontrol, Harness, JFrog, LaunchDarkly, Nullstone, Pulumi, Sleuth, System Initiative, Tailscale
Configuration management & deployment automation Firefly, HashiCorp, Inngest, LocalStack, Nullstone, Octopus Deploy, Pulumi, Replicated, Spacelift
Coding copilots Codeium, Cursor, GitHub, Qodo, Sourcegraph, Supermaven, Tabnine
Source control GitHub, GitLab
Internal developer portal Harness, Humanitec, Port, Qovery, Rig