Zuplo vs Apigee
One of fourteen models named Zuplo first on the direct prompt; one named Apigee. Zuplo was named by eleven of the fourteen models and Apigee by fourteen and Zuplo carries 24 labels and Apigee 43, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in four categories this edition.
Named in five categories this edition.
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
ZuploFirst choices, of fourteen modelsApigee
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Zuplo and Apigee were named in the same answer seventy-seven times, of the 156 answers naming Zuplo and the 349 naming Apigee. In those answers Apigee took the first choice four times and Zuplo twenty-nine.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | | | |
Zuplo Apigee first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Zuplo on the left and Apigee on the right.The direct prompt
Zuplo first, Apigee an alternative
1 of 14 modelsApigee was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Apigee first, Zuplo not the choice
1 of 14 modelsZuplo was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
7 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
5 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.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
Zuplo27%#2 of 10Apigee0%#10 of 10Apigee38%#1 of 9Zuplo4%#5 of 9What the models said about Zuplo
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“If you are running a modern SaaS stack and want to spend your engineering hours on building your B2B product rather than managing gateway servers, start with Zuplo.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice
What the models said about Apigee
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“What to Avoid for Mid-Size Budgets - Apigee (Google) — powerful but expensive; pay-as-you-go can reach $400K+/year” DeepSeek V4 Flash · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
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.