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API gateways · October 2026 Edition

Amazon API Gateway vs Azure API Management

Two of fourteen models named Amazon API Gateway first on the direct prompt; zero named Azure API Management. Amazon API Gateway was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and Azure API Management by twelve and Amazon API Gateway carries 61 labels and Azure API Management 36, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Amazon API Gateway

accepted challenger

Named in four categories this edition.

Azure API Management

accepted challenger

Named in three categories this edition.

First-choice share9%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate21%3%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#6A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels6136A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Amazon API Gateway reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Kong Gateway was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. Kong Gateway vs Amazon API Gateway · Kong Gateway vs Azure API Management · Apache APISIX vs Amazon API Gateway

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the API gateways page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Amazon API GatewayFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAzure API Management
Direct201 against Amazon API Gateway
Paraphrase011 against Amazon API Gateway
Comparative10
Budget-constrained304 against Amazon API Gateway
Scale-constrained00
Negative007 against Amazon API Gateway · 1 against Azure API Management
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Amazon API Gateway and Azure API Management were named in the same answer 214 times, of the 370 answers naming Amazon API Gateway and the 253 naming Azure API Management. In those answers Azure API Management took the first choice nine times and Amazon API Gateway nineteen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Amazon API Gateway and Azure API Management stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Amazon API Gateway Azure API Management first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Amazon API Gateway on the left and Azure API Management on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Amazon API Gateway and Azure API Management stood in it.

Amazon API Gateway first, Azure API Management not the choice

2 of 14 modelsAzure API Management was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Amazon API Gateway, Kong Gateway
Qwen 3.7 FlashAmazon API Gateway, Apigee alternatives: Kong Gateway, Tyk

Neither was the first choice, one was named

9 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 miniKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Azure API Management
Perplexity SonarKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Cleo Integration Cloud
Grok 4.1 FastKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management, Tyk, Zuplo
DeepSeek V4 FlashKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Tyk, Zuplo
Kimi K2Kong Gateway alternatives: Azure API Management
GLM 4.7 FlashXKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Tyk, Zuplo
MiniMax M2.5Kong Gateway alternatives: Azure API Management, NGINX, Red Hat 3scale
GPT-6 LunaKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Azure API Management
Muse Glimmer 30BKong Gateway, Tyk alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management

Neither was named

3 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Gemini 3.5 FlashTyk alternatives: Gravitee, Kong Gateway, Zuplo
Mistral SmallZuplo alternatives: Apigee, Axway API Gateway
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Amazon API Gateway leads by twenty-two points.
Amazon API Gateway22%#3 of 10
Azure API Management0%#8 of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Amazon API Gateway leads by eight points.
Amazon API Gateway9%#3 of 11
Azure API Management2%#6 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Amazon API Gateway4%#6 of 9
Azure API Management4%#4 of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Amazon API Gateway

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of four in this category shown.

“avoid per-call pricing models (like AWS API Gateway at $1–$3.50 per million calls)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“Kong (especially with enterprise support) or AWS API Gateway are solid choices, as they balance power, scalability, and cost” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · first choice
“If your infrastructure is already on AWS, this is usually the default starting point.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · direct prompt · first choice
“If you want no infrastructure overhead, go with Zuplo or AWS API Gateway” Claude Haiku 4.5 · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Azure API Management

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.