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 12 of 53, unchanged
3 categories · RankedKrakenD
33Judge labels
0First choices
5Negative labels
8 / 14Models named it
3Categories
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 gateways for mid-market buyers
Rank 15 of 66 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 12% of its 8 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business14 of 59
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market15 of 66
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise44 of 65
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
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 KrakenD 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 gateways | Developer platform | 0% | 15 of 66 | 12% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 53% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| API management | Developer platform | 0% | 20 of 61 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 37% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| API security platforms | Security operations | 0% | 45 of 93 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12% |
Movement
Since September 2026, KrakenD held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · API gateways · by segment
Mid-market▼−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 6 → 16 of 58
Enterprise=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 16 → 43 of 59
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API gateways | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 15 of 66 |
| 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 27 → 20 of 61 |
| API security | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 45 of 93, unchanged |
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 KrakenD 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 KrakenD 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative7 labelsNone
Budget-constrained16 labelsNone
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative33 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.
“Wants API aggregation/mediation (combine multiple back\u2011ends) | KrakenD Community” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API gateways · budget prompt · alternative
“Lowest Possible Cloud Bill | KrakenD | Stateless, no database, runs on tiny $5 VMs.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API management · budget prompt · alternative
“KrakenD if you want the smallest footprint and no DB/sync overhead” Muse Glimmer 30B · API gateways · budget prompt · alternative
“Best API Gateway (Firewall): KrakenD (Community Edition)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · API security · 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.
“If your architecture requires... dynamically updated on the fly at runtime... KrakenD will frustrate you.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API gateways · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as KrakenD, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and KrakenD was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as KrakenD, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and KrakenD 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 KrakenD. 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 32 of the 33 answers that named KrakenD and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
api7.ai18
geekflare.com17
dupple.com15
zuplo.com15
tyk.io14
checkthat.ai10
dev.to10
gravitee.io10
slashdot.org10
aws.amazon.com9
128 of the 128 domain citations in answers naming KrakenD came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
krakend.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, KrakenD takes 0% of first choices and Kong Gateway takes 53%.ShowHide
Search and answers
krakend.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, KrakenD takes 0% of first choices and Kong Gateway takes 53%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “api gateway”
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not in the top ten
Position for “api gateways”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 320 a month (“krakend”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 7 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 293 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 179 · 7 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,077
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 15 of 66 in API gateways
Segment leader
53%
Kong Gateway
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 33 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 32 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on krakend.io
559
subdomains included
Content
200
counted in the table below
Documentation
221
Product · Integration
5 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 146 | 8 | 2026-09-14 | API gateways | |
| Case study | 47 | 3 | 2026-09-09 | ||
| Comparison | 6 | 3 | 2026-08-26 | API gateways | |
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated | API gateways |
Most recent
- 2026-09-14Krakend 2.13.10 ee release notes blog
- 2026-09-09Unigroup case study
- 2026-09-08Krakend 2.13.9 ee 2.13.11 ce release notes blog
- 2026-08-26Krakend vs aws api gateway comparison
- 2026-08-26Krakend vs tyk comparison
- 2026-08-20Krakend 2.13.8 ee 2.13.10 ce release notes blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page krakend.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as KrakenD
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as KrakenD; a claim can dispute any of them.
KrakenD (Community Edition) 1KrakenD Community 1
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The company
KrakenD is its own company.ShowHide
The company
KrakenD is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The fastest AI & API gateway. True linear scalability.
- For
- microservices and AI workloads
- Price stated
- Stable, Flat Pricing krakend.io
- Free plan or trial
- free and open source Community Edition krakend.io
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II Certification
- Hosting
- on-premany cloudair-gapped
- Customers named
- Openroom Inc.Coop AtlantiqueHepsiburadaGundlach AutomotiveIBMSingle.EarthSmart Tribunelastminute.com
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations
What KrakenD's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: krakend.io, trust.krakend.io, krakend.io/features, krakend.io/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 KrakenD'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 KrakenD, 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 KrakenD by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where KrakenD 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 KrakenD, 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.