Cloudflare · 2 categories · RankedCloudflare API Gateway
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API security platforms | Security operations | 2% | 15 of 93 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12% | |
| API gateways | Developer platform | 0% | 17 of 66 | 14% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 53% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Cloudflare API Gateway across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If you are already on Cloudflare and want immediate, low-cost visibility: Go with Cloudflare API Gateway.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API security · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Best if you're cloud-native (AWS/Azure) - Cost-effective for smaller teams” MiniMax M2.5 · API security · paraphrase 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.
“Less full-featured for complex B2B API management” Kimi K2 · API gateways · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare API Gateway, over the 28 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 26 of the 28 answers that named Cloudflare API Gateway and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety-six of the ninety-six domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare API Gateway came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Cloudflare API Gateway stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 170 a month (“cloudflare api gateway”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3 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- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 28 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 26 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 API Gateway
Follow Cloudflare API 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.
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The company
Cloudflare is the company behind Cloudflare API Gateway.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- We’re going to completely replace your existing gateway at a fraction of the cost.
- For
- Enterprise customers
- Price stated
- Available on all plans developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Cloudflare API Gateway's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: blog.cloudflare.com/api-gateway, developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway, blog.cloudflare.com/workers-ai-gateway-unification, blog.cloudflare.com/tag/gateway, blog.cloudflare.com/tag/api-gateway. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
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 API 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 API Gateway, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cloudflare API Gateway by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cloudflare API 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 API 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.