Survey of 520 tech leaders: only 8% use one model provider, 80%+ delayed migrations over switching costs
ombre-ai · reddit · 2026-11-07
Stacklok surveyed 520 technical leaders at North American companies with 500+ employees; Stack Overflow published the write-up on Oct 21.
Key numbers:
- Only 8% rely on a single model provider; 25% use five or more.
- 53% named integrations with internal systems or MCP servers among the two hardest things to migrate; 52% named multi-step agent workflows.
- Over 80% delayed, scaled back, or restructured a migration because switching costs were too high.
The author notes the survey lumps "internal systems" and "MCP servers" into one option, so it can't isolate which hurts more. Likely break points: tool-calling formats and schemas, MCP servers and auth, prompts tuned to one model, evals, orchestration logic, and agent state. Caveat: it's a vendor-run survey of enterprise respondents — a discussion prompt, not a verdict.
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