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Index › Vendors › Cloudflare Workers · September 2026 Edition

Cloudflare · 2 categories · Named, not ranked

Cloudflare Workers

8Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Cloudflare Workers was named 4 times in API gateways and 1 other category, 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 business16 of 38

under the label threshold

Mid-market7 of 51

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Cloudflare Workers 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	2%	7 of 51	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 61%
Data warehouses	Data platform	0%	24 of 41	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Snowflake at 47%

Movement

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained4 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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 Workers offers the best value for money” MiniMax M2.5 · API gateways · budget prompt · first choice

“Cloudflare Workers can easily act as a highly performant, globally distributed API gateway.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API gateways · 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 Workers, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare Workers was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon API Gateway5 of 81Not in the top three

Kong Gateway5 of 81Not in the top three

Zuplo3 of 82Not in the top three

Vercel2 of 81Not in the top three

Amazon Web Services2 of 80Not in the top three

Apache APISIX2 of 80Not in the top three

Apigee2 of 80Not in the top three

Azure API Management2 of 80Not in the top three

Google Cloud2 of 80Not in the top three

Microsoft Azure2 of 80Not 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 Workers. 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 4 of the 8 answers that named Cloudflare Workers and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

digitalocean.com2

apicalculators.com1

apigatewaycost.com1

atlantic.net1

aunimeda.com1

aws.amazon.com1

checkthat.ai1

clickhouse.com1

cloudpricecheck.com1

costgoat.com1

Eleven of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Workers came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

apicalculators.com/api-gateway-pricing1

apigatewaycost.com/1

atlantic.net/cloud-platform/best-cloud-hosting-providers-small-businesses1

aunimeda.com/blog/cloud-hosting-comparison-20261

aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/pricing1

aws.amazon.com/jp/api-gateway/pricing1

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-cloud-computing-data-warehouse-solutions1

clickhouse.com/blog/cloud-data-warehouses-cost-performance-comparison1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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