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Index › Vendors › Braintrust Gateway · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Braintrust Gateway

17Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

10 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Braintrust Gateway was named 6 times in LLM gateways, where LiteLLM led with 38%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business10 of 44

under the label threshold

Mid-market9 of 63

under the label threshold

Enterprise16 of 62

under the label threshold

In llm gateways · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Braintrust Gateway 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	2%	9 of 63	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by LiteLLM at 38%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Braintrust Gateway 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 Braintrust Gateway 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	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labels1

Comparative10 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.

“some of the top recommendations for a mid-sized B2B company include: 1. Braintrust Gateway” Llama 4 Maverick · LLM gateways · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Production with governance | Braintrust (observability + evaluation + caching)” MiniMax M2.5 · LLM gateways · comparative prompt · first choice

“Braintrust's gateway is the strongest choice if your team's primary bottleneck is model output quality.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · LLM gateways · comparative prompt · alternative

“a gateway tightly integrated with evaluation, tracing, and quality monitoring” Kimi K2 · LLM gateways · comparative 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 Braintrust Gateway, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Braintrust Gateway was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

LiteLLM14 of 174Not in the top three

Portkey13 of 172Not in the top three

Helicone13 of 170Not in the top three

OpenRouter12 of 173Not in the top three

Kong AI Gateway10 of 170Not in the top three

Cloudflare AI Gateway9 of 170Not in the top three

Bifrost7 of 172Not in the top three

Respan3 of 170Not in the top three

TrueFoundry3 of 170Not in the top three

Langfuse2 of 171Not 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 Braintrust Gateway. 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 16 of the 17 answers that named Braintrust Gateway and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

braintrust.devYour site14

dataiku.com11

getmaxim.ai10

respan.ai9

truefoundry.com7

contabo.com6

dev.to6

orq.ai6

techsy.io5

mintmcp.com4

Sixty-four of the seventy-eight domain citations in answers naming Braintrust Gateway came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dataiku.com/blog/best-llm-gateways11

braintrust.dev/articles/best-llm-gateways-20269

respan.ai/articles/best-llm-gateways7

truefoundry.com/blog/best-llm-gateways7

getmaxim.ai/articles/top-5-llm-gateways-in-2026-a-production-ready-comparison6

orq.ai/blog/best-llm-gateways6

braintrust.dev/articles/best-llm-gateways-observability-20265

techsy.io/en/blog/best-llm-gateway-tools5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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