Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 45 → 49 of 51
IBM · 2 categories · RankedIBM API Connect
93Judge labels
0First choices
36Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in API management for mid-market buyers
Rank 48 of 61 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 41% of its 27 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of IBM API Connect →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business56 of 58
0%19 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market48 of 61
0%27 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise11 of 75
0%34 labels
accepted challenger
In api management · 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 IBM API Connect 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API management | Developer platform | 0% | 48 of 61 | 41% | 27 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| API gateways | Developer platform | 0% | 46 of 66 | 33% | 3 | 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
Since September 2026, IBM API Connect held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · API management · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 39 → 44 of 50
Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 → 11 of 71
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API management | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 39 → 48 of 61 |
| API gateways | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 35 → 46 of 66 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated IBM API Connect across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated IBM API Connect across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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
Direct13 labelsNone
Paraphrase8 labelsNone
Comparative31 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative27 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative93 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.
“Lite plan - 50,000 calls free per month... Cons: Limited calls in free tier” MiniMax M2.5 · API management · budget prompt · alternative
“If you need a solid on‑prem or hybrid enterprise gateway → IBM API Connect” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API management · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for: regulated industries and security-heavy environments.” GPT-5.4 mini · API management · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for: Hybrid integration & legacy/mainframe connectivity” Kimi K2 · API management · 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.
“Avoid this platform if you expect massive traffic spikes or need to deploy frequently across hybrid environments.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API management · negative prompt · hard negative
“often criticized for being complex, expensive, and less developer-friendly compared to modern alternatives” Mistral Small · API management · negative prompt · hard negative
“These are "significantly overbuilt" for early-stage API management and will cost time and money you don't need to spend.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · API management · negative prompt · soft negative
“rarely the heavy, enterprise-grade legacy suites (like Google Apigee, MuleSoft, or IBM API Connect)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API management · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as IBM API Connect, over the 93 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM API Connect was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as IBM API Connect, over the 93 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM API Connect was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 IBM API Connect. 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 89 of the 93 answers that named IBM API Connect and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
integrate.io52
zuplo.com43
gravitee.io37
g2.com29
ijcaonline.org29
improvado.io27
technologyadvice.com26
ibm.comYour site24
checkthat.ai20
devopsschool.com20
283 of the 307 domain citations in answers naming IBM API Connect came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where IBM API Connect stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where IBM API Connect stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 320 a month (“ibm api connect”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 18 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on IBM's site (ibm.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 48 of 61 in API management
Segment leader
37%
Kong Gateway
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 93 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 89 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 IBM API Connect
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as IBM API Connect; a claim can dispute any of them.
IBM 2IBM API Connect / WSO2 1
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The company
IBM is the company behind IBM API Connect.ShowHide
The company
IBM is the company behind IBM API Connect.
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Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- API Connect helps teams create, manage and secure APIs across their lifecycle with strong governance, built-in security and flexible deployment options.
- For
- teams
- Price stated
- Pay-as-you-go; Standard tier (SaaS); Other subscription plans ibm.com/products/api-connect
- Free plan or trial
- Start free trial ibm.com/products/api-connect
- Hosting
- AWS
- Customers named
- Etihad AirwaysTINEAxis BankFinologee
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, certifications
What IBM API Connect's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: ibm.com/products/api-connect, ibm.com/products/api-connect/demo, ibm.com/products/api-connect/manage, ibm.com/products/api-connect/secure, ibm.com/products/api-connect/create. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where IBM API Connect 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 IBM API Connect, 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.