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Broadcom Layer7 · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway

7Judge labels

0First choices

5Negative labels

7 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway was named 3 times in API gateways, where Kong Gateway led with 61%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market48 of 51

under the label threshold

Enterprise41 of 42

under the label threshold

In api 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 Broadcom Layer7 API 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
API gateways	Developer platform	0%	48 of 51	67%	3	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 Broadcom Layer7 API 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 Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Avoid any gateway version that has an active, unpatched critical CVE (CA/Broadcom, LiteLLM).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API gateways · negative prompt · hard negative

“Less common now; vulnerable to traffic tampering if MITM possible... prefer modern alternatives unless locked in.” Grok 4.1 Fast · API gateways · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Apigee6 of 71Not in the top three

Kong Gateway6 of 71Not in the top three

Amazon API Gateway6 of 70Not in the top three

Tyk5 of 71Not in the top three

Azure API Management5 of 70Not in the top three

Apache APISIX3 of 71Not in the top three

Zuplo3 of 70Not in the top three

Gloo Gateway2 of 71Not in the top three

Gravitee2 of 70Not in the top three

LiteLLM2 of 70Not 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 Broadcom Layer7 API 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 5 of the 7 answers that named Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com3

solo.io3

apisix.apache.org2

apono.io2

code4it.dev2

dev.to2

konghq.com2

labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org2

sentinelone.com2

webdev.today2

Twenty-two of the twenty-two domain citations in answers naming Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

apono.io/blog/api-gateway-security-the-essential-infosec-guide2

code4it.dev/architecture-notes/api-gateway-pros-and-cons2

labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-litellm-cve-2026-42271-ai-gatewa2

reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1ojbfnh/case_study_on_when_not_to_use_api_gateways2

sentinelone.com/vulnerability-database/cve-2026-118152

solo.io/blog/avoid-apigee-api-gateway2

solo.io/topics/api-gateway/api-gateway-security2

webdev.today/cloud-infrastructure-software-engineering/why-high-scale-architectures-abando2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway; a claim can dispute any of them.

Broadcom (Layer7/Symantec) API Gateway 1CA / Broadcom API Gateway 1Layer7 1

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