Who an agent names when somebody asks it to choose

One buying question per category, the question a developer would type, put to an agent in isolation with nothing carried between the runs: 208 runs so far across codex and claude. Across 26 categories, 71 of 177 vendors were never named once. Not outranked. Not considered.

Category	Named at least once	Named first most often
File upload and storage	3/9	cloudflare.com (3/3)
Embeddable rich text editors	7/10	prosemirror.net (2/3)
Authentication as a service	4/7	workos.com (3/3)
Transactional email APIs	4/6	postmarkapp.com (3/3)
Product analytics	6/6	posthog.com (3/3)
Vector databases	4/6	qdrant.tech (2/3)
Payments and billing	4/6	paddle.com (3/3)
Error monitoring	4/7	sentry.io (3/3)
Feature flags and experiments	6/7	statsig.com (3/3)
Search as a service	4/6	algolia.com (3/3)
SMS, voice and messaging	6/6	twilio.com (3/3)
Headless CMS	4/7	sanity.io (3/3)
Background jobs and workflows	3/7	trigger.dev (3/3)
Model hosting and gateways	3/7	openrouter.ai (3/3)
Video hosting and streaming	2/6	mux.com (3/3)
Browser and scraping infrastructure	4/6	browserbase.com (3/3)
Notification infrastructure	4/6	knock.app (2/3)
Scheduling and calendar APIs	4/6	nylas.com (2/3)
Maps and geocoding	2/6	here.com (3/3)
Managed databases	4/8	neon.com (3/3)
Observability and logging	4/6	datadoghq.com (3/3)
Documents and e-signature	3/6	dropboxsign.com (3/3)
Commerce platforms	2/6	shopify.com (3/3)
Translation and localization	4/6	phrase.com (3/3)
Domain registration and DNS	5/11	gandi.net (2/3)
Application hosting and deployment	6/7	render.com (3/3)

A handful of runs separates a wall from silence and nothing finer, so nothing here ranks two vendors that finish close. The whole answer text is published under each category, marked where a vendor is named, because a tally is our reading and the words are the evidence.