Every category where a model named Bifrost for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
LLM gateways and observability	Data platform	0%	13 of 63	0%	21	accepted challenger
API gateways	Developer platform	0%	20 of 51	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 61%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Bifrost yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Bifrost across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	5	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	1	3
Mistral Small	0	2	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	2	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	2	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct16 labels6

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative22 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained15 labels7

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative9 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative71 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 23 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Prioritize audited/managed options (e.g., Portkey, Bifrost for perf/compliance) over vulnerable OSS defaults.” Grok 4.1 Fast · LLM gateways · negative prompt · first choice

“Add an AI Gateway (like Bifrost or Kong AI) if your engineering teams are heavily building agentic AI features” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API gateways · comparative prompt · alternative

“Bifrost is the top choice for companies requiring high-performance infrastructure and strict data sovereignty” Qwen 3.7 Flash · LLM gateways · direct prompt · alternative

“Choose Bifrost if your top priority is lowest latency and high-throughput production traffic” Perplexity Sonar · LLM gateways · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Bifrost, over the 71 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bifrost was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

LiteLLM67 of 7122Not in the top three

Portkey59 of 719Not in the top three

OpenRouter41 of 713Not in the top three

Cloudflare AI Gateway36 of 714Not in the top three

Kong AI Gateway31 of 710Not in the top three

Helicone23 of 711Not in the top three

TrueFoundry13 of 712Not in the top three

Braintrust Gateway7 of 711Not in the top three

Braintrust6 of 712Not in the top three

NeuralTrust TrustGate5 of 712Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Bifrost. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 59 of the 71 answers that named Bifrost and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

getmaxim.ai50

cloudzero.com36

dev.to34

dataiku.com30

truefoundry.com30

orq.ai26

respan.ai25

braintrust.dev22

techsy.io19

gbhackers.com16

288 of the 288 domain citations in answers naming Bifrost came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudzero.com/blog/llm-gateways36

dataiku.com/blog/best-llm-gateways30

orq.ai/blog/best-llm-gateways25

respan.ai/articles/best-llm-gateways23

getmaxim.ai/articles/top-5-llm-gateways-in-2026-a-production-ready-comparison22

getmaxim.ai/articles/best-enterprise-llm-gateways-in-2026-a-comparative-guide21

techsy.io/en/blog/best-llm-gateway-tools19

truefoundry.com/blog/best-llm-gateways18

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Bifrost

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Bifrost; a claim can dispute any of them.

Bifrost (by Maxim AI) 2Bifrost (Maxim) 1

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at bifrostsec.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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