Every category where a model named Cloudflare 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%	15 of 51	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 61%
API management	Developer platform	0%	18 of 55	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 37%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cloudflare 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 Cloudflare API Gateway across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
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 label1

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labels2

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative1 label1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.

“go with Cloudflare API Gateway at $25/mo \u2014 it's the most cost-effective managed option” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API gateways · budget prompt · alternative

“consider Cloudflare ($25/mo)” Kimi K2 · API management · budget 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 Cloudflare API Gateway, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare API Gateway was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Kong Gateway21 of 216Not in the top three

Amazon API Gateway19 of 213Not in the top three

Tyk18 of 213Not in the top three

Zuplo16 of 219Not in the top three

Apigee11 of 210Not in the top three

Azure API Management7 of 210Not in the top three

Gravitee6 of 210Not in the top three

NGINX6 of 210Not in the top three

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform5 of 210Not in the top three

KrakenD4 of 210Not 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 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 18 of the 21 answers that named Cloudflare API Gateway and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

zuplo.com13

dupple.com10

reddit.com10

toolradar.com9

apigatewaycost.com8

geekflare.com8

knoxcall.com8

vibereference.com8

tecmint.com7

api7.ai6

Eighty-seven of the eighty-seven domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare API Gateway came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dupple.com/learn/best-api-gateways10

reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1s36hm2/best_api_management_tools_for_smaller_companies9

toolradar.com/guides/best-api-gateways9

geekflare.com/guides/best-api-gateways8

knoxcall.com/blog/article/best-api-gateways-small-teams-20268

vibereference.com/backend-and-data/api-gateway-providers8

zuplo.com/learning-center/api-gateway-pricing-comparison-20268

zuplo.com/learning-center/best-api-gateways-startups-20268

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cloudflare API Gateway

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

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