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OpenAI alternatives_

As of 4 November 2026, 20 llm models & apis are named by companies instead of OpenAI: Claude by 8,753 companies, Gemini by 3,285, Anthropic by 1,811.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

OpenAI, companies in postings
3,389
Most used alternative
Claude · 8,753
Fastest hiring, 90 days
Claude
Alternatives ranked
20
Catalogue
T-1.0.1-prov
01 — Ranked by evidence

LLM models & APIs companies choose instead of OpenAI

Companies naming each tool in their own postings, and postings in the last 90 days. Bars are relative to the category leader.

#AlternativeCompaniescompaniesvs OpenAIpostings, 90 dCompare
1
ClaudeAnthropic
8,753258%23,652OpenAI vs Claude →
2
GeminiGoogle
3,28597%9,949OpenAI vs Gemini →
3
AnthropicAnthropic
1,81153%4,634OpenAI vs Anthropic →
4
Amazon BedrockAmazon
1,68750%5,243OpenAI vs Amazon Bedrock →
5
Azure OpenAIMicrosoft
1,52545%4,841OpenAI vs Azure OpenAI →
6
Azure AI ServicesMicrosoft
1,35340%4,387OpenAI vs Azure AI Services →
7
GPTOpenAI
1,08232%3,028OpenAI vs GPT →
8
Azure AI FoundryMicrosoft
1,05031%3,689OpenAI vs Azure AI Foundry →
9
LlamaMeta
50315%1,387OpenAI vs Llama →
10
Mistral AIMistral AI
32310%819OpenAI vs Mistral AI →
11
Snowflake CortexSnowflake
2407%723OpenAI vs Snowflake Cortex →
12
BERTGoogle
1896%519OpenAI vs BERT →
13
QwenAlibaba
1254%376soon
14
GrokxAI
1194%985soon
15
DeepSeekDeepSeek
893%227soon
16
CohereCohere
652%152soon
17
GemmaGoogle
381%94soon
18
GroqGroq
291%53soon
19
PaLMGoogle
150%74soon
20
NVIDIA NemotronNVIDIA
110%368soon
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20 llm models & apis are named by companies instead of OpenAI: Claude by 8,753 companies, Gemini by 3,285, Anthropic by 1,811, measured from their own job postings. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/tools/openai/alternatives)
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  • RankingCompanies whose own postings name the tool as the team's system, from the Breaknorm technology catalogue T-1.0.1-prov. Editions are folded into their parent product.
  • 90-day postingsOpen postings first seen or posted in the last 90 days that name the tool.
  • Not includedRatings, prices, feature claims, sponsored positions.
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OpenAI alternatives: questions

What is the most used alternative to OpenAI?

Claude: 8,753 companies name it in their own job postings, against 3,389 for OpenAI.

How is this list ranked?

By the number of companies whose own postings name the tool as the team's system (Breaknorm technology catalogue T-1.0.1-prov), then by postings in the last 90 days. No ratings, no vendor input, no sponsored positions.

Does this say which is better?

No. It says who uses what, by company size, industry and country, so you can see which tools companies like yours choose. For features and prices, read the vendors.

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