Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Developer tools companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 214 developer tools companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 4,994 professional contacts across them, including 2,406 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and San Francisco the largest hub.
This list covers developer tools companies worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026. Country and city lists for developer tools companies follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest developer tools companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,608 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “On a mission to make software development a more productive and enjoyable experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 785 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Qt Group (Nasdaq Helsinki: QTCOM) is a global software company, trusted by industry leaders and over 1.5 million developers worldwide to create applications and smart devices that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Embarcadero tools are built for elite developers who build and maintain the world’s most critical applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Windsurf, we're rewriting the future of software development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We created ThinkerSteps because we knew there had to be a better way to use technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Silktide makes software to understand and improve websites, covering accessibility, SEO, UX, data privacy, and more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PC SOFT was started in 1984.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ASSET InterTech is the leading supplier of open tools for embedded instrumentation to engineers doing design validation, test and debug.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ONE STOP PROVIDER OF ALL EMBEDDED SYSTEMS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS Embedded Systems Solutions (ESS) is an Electro Systems Associates (ESA) group company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re Zed Industries, a small and passionate team with a vision for building the world’s best text editor-for you, and for your team.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are developing open-source and commercial software development tools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rogue Wave was acquired by Perforce Software.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sencha empowers developers to design, develop, and test cross-platform apps built with HTML5 and web standards.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ever wondered what it would be like to have the creators of the fastest.NET decompiler on your team?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kombai is your AI design engineer with built-in taste.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We create things to make people and businesses more efficient.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a small independent software company delivering craft solutions that meet the ever-changing needs of the technology industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CodeGlass: Revolutionizing Software Understanding Across All Platforms Founded in 2023, CodeGlass was created to address the biggest challenges developers face today…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eiffel Software is recognized as the thought leader in making software projects predictable and controllable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WE BELIEVE Front-end creation is an art when developers and designers work together to build extraordinary experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creators of Visual Assist, a productivity tool for C/C++ and C# users of Microsoft Visual Studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Pioneering the future of software development with cutting-edge tools and innovative solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MAGAVAST (LTD)- software product development company, build M.DEV-7 development tools that aim to automate various aspects of code development and development management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We're Wallaby, a team of software engineers who are passionate about creating software development tools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: developer tools companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names developer tools companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of developer tools companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name developer tools companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Developer tools companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among developer tools companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for developer tools companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “developer tools companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names developer tools companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among developer tools companies, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,406 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Developer tools companies by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Developer tools companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names developer tools companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many developer tools companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 214 developer tools companies worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Jetbrains, headquartered in Amsterdam, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most developer tools companies?
The United States leads with 67 companies. Every developer tools companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most developer tools companies?
San Francisco leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Austin (6) and London (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,406 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 214 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.