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Marketing data sources for SaaS and developer founders

Find external data for market research, competitor analysis and content: data tools, public datasets, industry benchmarks, surveys and reports. Compare coverage, access and limitations.

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Pew Research Center datasets

Analyze public attitudes and behaviors when a relevant released survey includes the population and question you need.

Coverage: Varies by individual U.S. and international study · Respondent-level case data for eligible released surveys

Survey microdata with questionnaires and methodologyFree
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Stack Overflow Developer Survey data

Explore self-reported developer tools, work practices and attitudes; compare survey years with consistent definitions where possible.

Coverage: Respondents across countries; inspect each year's methodology and respondent mix · Annual respondent-level and summary files, varying by year

Annual opt-in developer survey and downloadable filesPrice not confirmed
ResearchPublic data

OpenAlex API and Dataset

Use OpenAlex to find research trends, institutions, experts and topic-level scholarly signals.

Coverage: Coverage depends on the source's documented geographic and time scope · Provider-described dataset or API records available at the indicated geography and time scope.

Works, authors, institutions, sources and topicsPrice not confirmed
ResearchPublic data

Stack Exchange API

Use the API to explore public technical questions and topics in a specific Stack Exchange community.

Coverage: Coverage depends on the source's documented geographic and time scope · Provider-described dataset or API records available at the indicated geography and time scope.

Questions, answers, comments, tags and users by Stack Exchange sitePrice not confirmed
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OpenAlex

Map emerging AI and data-engineering research, identify institutions and collaborators, and build evidence-backed topic or competitor intelligence. Valuable for research-heavy AI/data founders building discovery, knowledge, evaluation, or scientific-data products.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Map emerging AI and data-engineering research, identify institutions and collaborators, and build evidence-backed topic or competitor intelligence.

Open scholarly metadata and research graphPrice not confirmed
ResearchPublic

NCSES Data (National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics)

Assess R&D ecosystems, technical workforce supply, university and institution markets, regional innovation, and AI/software adoption signals. Strong primary evidence for founders selling to research, engineering, AI, and data-intensive organizations or choosing launch geographies.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Assess R&D ecosystems, technical workforce supply, university and institution markets, regional innovation, and AI/software adoption signals.

Science, engineering, R&D, and innovation statisticsPrice not confirmed
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Crossref Metadata REST API

Track research themes, institutions, funders, citations/DOIs, and emerging technical domains; build discovery, enrichment, or research-intelligence features. Particularly valuable for developer-tools founders monitoring technical research, data infrastructure trends, and institutional or funder demand.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Track research themes, institutions, funders, citations/DOIs, and emerging technical domains; build discovery, enrichment, or research-intelligence features.

Scholarly metadata registry/APIPrice not confirmed
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Zenodo

Discover and enrich research datasets, benchmark artifacts, software releases, and papers; build dataset discovery, provenance, citation, or research-intelligence products for technical users. Strong fit for ML/data-product founders who need technical datasets, benchmark provenance, research artifacts, or DOI-linked discovery without depending on a commercial catalog.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Discover and enrich research datasets, benchmark artifacts, software releases, and papers; build dataset discovery, provenance, citation, or research-intelligence products for technical users.

Research and dataset repositoryPrice not confirmed
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DataCite Metadata and REST API

Power DOI resolution, dataset and software discovery, citation/provenance graphs, institutional research analytics, and metadata enrichment for data-product catalogs. Strong fit for developer-tool and data-product founders building research-data catalogs, dataset lineage, DOI-aware integrations, or scholarly usage analytics.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Power DOI resolution, dataset and software discovery, citation/provenance graphs, institutional research analytics, and metadata enrichment for data-product catalogs.

Technical metadata and research-object registryPrice not confirmed
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OpenML

Source reproducible evaluation datasets, benchmark suites, and metadata for testing data tooling, model pipelines, retrieval systems, and developer-oriented ML products. Strong fit for developer-tools founders who need repeatable public benchmarks and structured dataset metadata rather than an undifferentiated dataset dump.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Source reproducible evaluation datasets, benchmark suites, and metadata for testing data tooling, model pipelines, retrieval systems, and developer-oriented ML products.

Open machine-learning dataset and benchmark registryPrice not confirmed
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UCI Machine Learning Repository

Source reproducible benchmark datasets, compare task/domain coverage, and identify common ML evaluation patterns for prototyping data products or model tooling. Useful for ML/data-product founders, evaluation-platform builders, educators, and teams needing recognizable public datasets for demos and baseline experiments.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Source reproducible benchmark datasets, compare task/domain coverage, and identify common ML evaluation patterns for prototyping data products or model tooling.

Machine-learning dataset repositoryPrice not confirmed
ResearchPublic research page

2024 AI Business Predictions

AI investment, workforce, business value, governance and operating-model adoption

Coverage: Global/market-specific editions · annual; executive and industry themes

executive survey and research reportFree
ResearchOpen/free

Arena AI Leaderboards

comparative model adoption/quality signals, preference trends and model-release tracking

Coverage: global participating users and AI models · model, modality, pairwise vote, rating and leaderboard time series

human-preference model comparison and leaderboard platformPrice not confirmed
ResearchFree public / premium

Artificial Analysis Model Comparison

model selection, cost-performance benchmarking, provider adoption comparisons and inference economics

Coverage: global commercial and open model providers · model/provider, intelligence score, token price, speed, latency and context window

independent model/provider performance, price and latency comparisonPrice not confirmed
Researchpublic repositories with installation-specific access

Dataverse

Discovering reproducible research data and building scholarly-data products

Coverage: Global; repository and dataset-specific · Repository, dataset, file, version and metadata

Open-source research data repository networkPrice not confirmed
Researchpublic search/download repository

Dryad Data

Finding reusable research data, validation sets and domain-specific evidence

Coverage: Global; publication/study-specific · Dataset, file, version, citation and research metadata

Curated research data repositoryPrice not confirmed
ResearchPublic report/download

Eclipse IoT and Embedded Developer Survey 2024

IoT market sizing, platform adoption and embedded product planning

Coverage: Global IoT and embedded developers · Respondent, technology, use case and industry dimensions

Industry developer surveyPrice not confirmed
ResearchOpen/free

Epoch AI Models Dataset

AI capability/training-compute trends, release timelines, organization comparisons and historical adoption analysis

Coverage: global machine-learning models and organizations · model, organization, release date, training compute and model metadata

curated AI model database and downloadable CSVPrice not confirmed
ResearchPublic report

Go Developer Survey 2024 H2

Go ecosystem demand, tooling and developer-product strategy

Coverage: Global Go developers · Respondent, OS, tools, use cases, sentiment and demographics

Official developer surveyPrice not confirmed
ResearchPublic/restricted

ICPSR Data Archive

Research, workforce and social-science validation datasets

Coverage: Primarily US and international studies · Study/file/variable; study-specific periods and geographies

University research data archivePrice not confirmed
ResearchPublic report/download

Linux Foundation Open Source Developer Report 2024

Open-source workforce, sustainability and ecosystem planning

Coverage: Global open-source contributors · Developer, organization, contribution and project-practice dimensions

Open-source developer survey/reportPrice not confirmed
ResearchOpen/free

METR Time Horizons

agent capability progression, long-task automation analysis and model evaluation

Coverage: frontier AI models evaluated on software/research tasks · model, task, human task duration, success rate and fitted time horizon

AI-agent task-completion benchmark and results datasetFree
ResearchPublic download archive

NBER Public Use Data Archive

Economic research, market modeling, replication and historical benchmarking

Coverage: Primarily U.S. economic, demographic and enterprise data; dataset-specific · Dataset, variable, observation, code and documentation

Research data archivePrice not confirmed
ResearchPublic web

O’Reilly 2024 Tech Trends Report

AI demand, developer learning and technical market signals

Coverage: Global O’Reilly learners · Content views, topics and year-over-year trends

Learning-platform usage reportPrice not confirmed
ResearchPublic report

Rust Annual Survey 2023

Rust ecosystem product planning and developer workforce research

Coverage: Global Rust community · Respondent and Rust usage, tooling, adoption and challenges

Annual developer surveyPrice not confirmed
ResearchPublic web/download

Shaping the Future of Generative AI

AI adoption, open-source AI ecosystem and founder positioning

Coverage: Global · Organizations, practitioners and open-source/AI ecosystem themes

Research report and surveyFree
ResearchPublic report series

State of Generative AI in the Enterprise 2024

enterprise GenAI adoption, investment, value realization, governance and barriers

Coverage: Global · quarterly/annual; region, role and adoption-stage cuts

executive survey seriesFree
ResearchPublic web

The state of AI in early 2024

AI adoption, enterprise demand and product-market prioritization

Coverage: Global · Organizations, functions, AI use and value outcomes

Global executive surveyPrice not confirmed
ResearchPublic report download

The Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Firms

Ground AI market research in multi-country enterprise survey evidence and compare adoption barriers.

Coverage: G7 countries and Brazil; survey includes 840 firms in G7 and 167 in Brazil · AI adoption, barriers, cloud use, skills, business functions and policy needs

OECD enterprise AI adoption report and surveyPrice not confirmed
ResearchFree form-gated report

State of the AI Connected Customer

Research buyer trust and technology expectations for AI-enabled SaaS and customer-facing products.

Coverage: More than 16,000 consumers and business buyers worldwide · AI expectations, customer trust, buying behavior and service preferences

Global consumer and business-buyer survey reportFree
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