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: 445 runs so far across claude and codex and agy and cursor-agent. Across 26 categories, 54 of 181 vendors were never named once. Not outranked. Not considered.

Category	Named at least once	Named first most often
File upload and storage	5/9	cloudflare.com (5/5)
Embeddable rich text editors	8/10	tiptap.dev (3/5)
Authentication as a service	5/7	workos.com (5/5)
Transactional email APIs	4/6	postmarkapp.com (5/5)
Product analytics	6/6	posthog.com (5/5)
Vector databases	5/6	qdrant.tech (3/5)
Payments and billing	4/6	paddle.com (5/5)
Error monitoring	5/7	sentry.io (5/5)
Feature flags and experiments	6/7	statsig.com (5/5)
Search as a service	4/6	algolia.com (5/5)
SMS, voice and messaging	6/6	twilio.com (5/5)
Headless CMS	5/7	sanity.io (5/5)
Background jobs and workflows	5/7	trigger.dev (5/5)
Model hosting and gateways	6/7	openrouter.ai (5/5)
Video hosting and streaming	2/6	mux.com (5/5)
Browser and scraping infrastructure	4/6	browserbase.com (3/5)
Notification infrastructure	4/6	knock.app (3/5)
Scheduling and calendar APIs	5/6	nylas.com (4/5)
Maps and geocoding	3/6	here.com (4/5)
Managed databases	4/8	neon.com (5/5)
Observability and logging	4/6	datadoghq.com (4/5)
Documents and e-signature	5/7	youtrust.com (5/5)
Commerce platforms	3/7	fourthwall.com (3/5)
Translation and localization	4/6	phrase.com (5/5)
Domain registration and DNS	9/13	opensrs.com (3/5)
Application hosting and deployment	6/7	render.com (6/6)

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.