Seven of twelve models named Kong Gateway first on the direct prompt; zero named Gravitee. Kong Gateway was named by twelve of the twelve models and Gravitee by nine and Kong Gateway carries 64 labels and Gravitee 21, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in two categories this edition.
Named in two categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve 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 management page.
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.
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“Other outdated API gateways such as Kong, 3scale, and Layer7 are also not fit for modern cloud-native architectures.” Llama 4 Maverick · negative prompt · hard negative
“Kong: avoid it if you do not have in-house Lua expertise” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · hard negative
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.
“Gravitee's Community Edition is famously generous... Gives you a free developer portal, policy UI, and basic analytics that competitors charge thousands for.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“Start here — Gravitee (open source first, then managed) for a complete lifecycle + portal at predictable mid-market pricing.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Go with Gravitee (most complete open-source feature set) or Kong OSS” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.