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API management · September 2026 Edition

Kong Gateway vs Gravitee

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.

Kong Gateway

endorsed leader

Named in two categories this edition.

Gravitee

accepted challenger

Named in two categories this edition.

First-choice share37%11%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate9%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#3A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels6421A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Kong Gateway reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Azure API Management was named alongside these two in eight of the twelve direct answers. Kong Gateway vs Tyk · Tyk vs Gravitee

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.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Kong GatewayFirst choices, of twelve modelsGravitee
Direct70
Paraphrase42
Comparative30
Budget-constrained531 against Kong Gateway
Scale-constrained10
Negative105 against Kong Gateway
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Kong Gateway and Gravitee stood in it.

Kong Gateway first, Gravitee not the choice

7 of 12 modelsGravitee was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniKong Gateway alternatives: Boomi, IBM API Connect
Grok 4.1 FastKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management, Tyk
Mistral SmallAzure API Management, Kong Gateway alternatives: Tyk
Qwen 3.7 FlashKong Gateway alternatives: Azure API Management
Kimi K2Kong Gateway alternatives: Apigee, Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Tyk
GLM 4.7 FlashXKong Gateway, Tyk alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management
MiniMax M2.5Azure API Management, Kong Gateway alternatives: TIBCO Mashery, Tyk

Neither was the first choice, one was named

2 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Gemini 3.5 FlashTyk alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management, Gravitee, Kong Gateway
DeepSeek V4 FlashTyk alternatives: Kong Gateway

Neither was named

3 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
Perplexity SonarBoomi alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager
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
Kong Gateway leads by seventeen points.
Kong Gateway17%#3 of 10
Gravitee0%#6 of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Kong Gateway leads by twenty-six points.
Kong Gateway37%#1 of 11
Gravitee11%#3 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Kong Gateway leads by fourteen points.
Kong Gateway16%#3 of 9
Gravitee2%#7 of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Kong Gateway

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

What the models said about Gravitee

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
Also compared

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.