Every category where a model named Cloudflare AI 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%	5 of 63	4%	23	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cloudflare AI 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 Cloudflare AI 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	3	0	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	1	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	2	0	4
Mistral Small	0	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	0	2

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

Direct18 labels1

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative22 labelsNone

Budget-constrained14 labels2

Scale-constrained4 labels1

Negative9 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative68 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 6 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.

“Cloudflare AI Gateway (Best overall for free managed routing) Cloudflare is the most cost-effective managed gateway on the market for budget-conscious companies.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · LLM gateways · budget prompt · first choice

“a no-brainer for immediate, zero-infrastructure deployment... Lacks the highly customized multi-tenant quota controls” Gemini 3.5 Flash · LLM gateways · direct prompt · alternative

“If your company already relies heavily on Cloudflare for CDN, DNS, or WAF, their AI Gateway is a seamless addition.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · LLM gateways · direct prompt · alternative

“setup is almost instant. It offers out-of-the-box caching, analytics, and rate-limiting” Gemini 3.5 Flash · 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.

“Good for edge caching/observability, but not a full multi-provider failover or budget-control solution.” Perplexity Sonar · LLM gateways · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare AI Gateway, over the 68 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare AI Gateway was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

LiteLLM65 of 6831Not in the top three

Portkey52 of 6811Not in the top three

OpenRouter52 of 689Not in the top three

Bifrost36 of 6812Not in the top three

Helicone32 of 683Not in the top three

Kong AI Gateway30 of 680Not in the top three

Braintrust Gateway9 of 681Not in the top three

TrueFoundry9 of 680Not in the top three

Vercel AI Gateway8 of 681Not in the top three

Braintrust4 of 680Not 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 Cloudflare AI 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 58 of the 68 answers that named Cloudflare AI Gateway and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

getmaxim.ai38

orq.ai37

dataiku.com36

dev.to36

cloudzero.com33

truefoundry.com32

respan.ai31

techsy.io29

braintrust.dev27

opper.ai19

318 of the 318 domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare AI Gateway came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dataiku.com/blog/best-llm-gateways36

orq.ai/blog/best-llm-gateways36

cloudzero.com/blog/llm-gateways33

techsy.io/en/blog/best-llm-gateway-tools29

respan.ai/articles/best-llm-gateways28

truefoundry.com/blog/best-llm-gateways24

getmaxim.ai/articles/top-5-llm-gateways-in-2026-a-production-ready-comparison23

braintrust.dev/articles/best-llm-gateways-202619

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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