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	Since September 2026
AI security platforms	Security operations	4%	9 of 233	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11%
LLM gateways and observability	Data platform	2%	7 of 69	3%	29	accepted challenger	▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

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 and per category, 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. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	4	0	1	6
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.20	0	2	2	0	4
Mistral Small	0	2	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	1	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	2	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	1	2	0	0	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	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

Direct19 labels2

Paraphrase2 labels1

Comparative27 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labels4

Scale-constrained9 labelsNone

Negative9 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative78 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 11 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.

“The safest bets are Cloudflare AI Gateway for hosted, or Kong self-hosted for enterprise compliance.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · LLM gateways · negative prompt · first choice

“If I had to pick only one tool to start with, I would choose Cloudflare AI Gateway.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI security · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Cloudflare AI Gateway (Best Freemium/SaaS Option) ... The core gateway is 100% free” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI security · budget prompt · first choice

“For most budget-conscious companies, I'd start with Cloudflare AI Gateway” GPT-6 Luna · LLM gateways · budget prompt · first choice

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.

“Insanely fast, great for basic caching and logging, but lacks deep enterprise budgeting/RBAC controls.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · LLM gateways · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare AI Gateway, over the 78 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.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

LiteLLM70 of 7828Compare →

Portkey56 of 7811Compare →

OpenRouter49 of 7813Compare →

Kong AI Gateway44 of 781Not among the top eight

Bifrost36 of 788Compare →

Helicone24 of 782Compare →

Vercel AI Gateway10 of 781Not among the top eight

TrueFoundry10 of 780Not among the top eight

Tetrate Agent Router Enterprise6 of 782Not among the top eight

Nexos.ai5 of 782Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 77 of the 78 answers that named Cloudflare AI Gateway and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

getmaxim.ai45

dev.to36

openrouter.ai32

respan.ai32

truefoundry.com28

cloudzero.com27

dataiku.com20

orq.ai20

contabo.com19

opper.ai18

277 of the 277 domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare AI Gateway came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

respan.ai/articles/best-llm-gateways31

cloudzero.com/blog/llm-gateways27

openrouter.ai/blog/insights/llm-gateway27

getmaxim.ai/articles/top-5-llm-gateways-in-2026-a-production-ready-comparison24

orq.ai/blog/best-llm-gateways20

dataiku.com/blog/best-llm-gateways19

getmaxim.ai/articles/best-enterprise-llm-gateways-in-2026-a-comparative-guide16

contabo.com/blog/best-llm-gateways15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Cloudflare AI Gateway stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 2,400 a month (“cloudflare ai gateway”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 15 a month
Its own site: It sits on Cloudflare's site (cloudflare.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 9 of 233 in AI security

Segment leader

11%

SentinelOne Singularity

First choices: 7 across its categories
Named in: 78 answers
Its own site cited: in 77 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Cloudflare AI Gateway

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

Cloudflare 2Cloudflare/Kong-style gateways 1

Follow Cloudflare AI Gateway

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Cloudflare is the company behind Cloudflare AI Gateway.

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On record

Company records

Also from Cloudflare: Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for Families, Cloudflare API Gateway, Cloudflare API Security, Cloudflare API Shield, Cloudflare Access, Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One, Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare Zero Trust, Cloudflare Application Security and 41 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Observe and control your AI applications.
developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway
For: your AI applications
developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway
Price stated: Available on all plans developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway
Free plan or trial: beta blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-ai-gateway
Integrations claimed: 3 blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-ai-gateway
Customers named: Flexport
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, certifications, hosting

What Cloudflare AI Gateway's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway, blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-ai-gateway, blog.cloudflare.com/guardrails-in-ai-gateway, blog.cloudflare.com/identity-aware-ai-gateway, blog.cloudflare.com/workers-ai-gateway-unification. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Cloudflare AI Gateway's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Cloudflare AI Gateway, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cloudflare AI Gateway by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cloudflare AI Gateway is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Cloudflare AI Gateway, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.