Every category where a model named Portkey 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
LLM gateways and observability	Data platform	27%	2 of 63	2%	43	accepted challenger
API gateways	Developer platform	0%	37 of 51	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 61%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	0	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	2	1	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	1	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	2	1	0	6
Mistral Small	1	2	0	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	1	0	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	1	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	1	1	0	4
Kimi K2	1	3	1	0	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	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

Direct27 labels11

Paraphrase24 labels13

Comparative36 labels4not counted in share

Budget-constrained19 labelsNone

Scale-constrained14 labels3

Negative17 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative137 labels in all, every segment counted; 27 of the 33 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.

“For most mid-sized B2B companies looking for a balance of velocity and control, starting with a Portkey pilot is highly recommended.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · LLM gateways · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Portkey is widely considered the best all-around solution for mid-market businesses due to its specialized governance features” Qwen 3.7 Flash · LLM gateways · direct prompt · first choice

“Portkey (Best Managed / Enterprise Governance): ... a premium, developer-friendly gateway. It offers top-tier reliability features” Gemini 3.5 Flash · LLM gateways · scale prompt · first choice

“the best default choice is usually Portkey if you need managed governance, observability, and multi-team controls” Perplexity Sonar · LLM gateways · direct prompt · first choice

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.

“Strong governance/compliance features, but one comparison says you should expect extra latency overhead” Perplexity Sonar · LLM gateways · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Portkey, over the 137 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Portkey was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

LiteLLM122 of 13748Compare →

OpenRouter75 of 13712Not in the top three

Helicone62 of 1373Compare →

Bifrost59 of 13714Not in the top three

Cloudflare AI Gateway52 of 1372Not in the top three

Kong AI Gateway47 of 1371Not in the top three

Langfuse20 of 1376Not in the top three

TrueFoundry17 of 1372Not in the top three

Braintrust14 of 1371Not in the top three

Braintrust Gateway13 of 1372Not 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 Portkey. 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 114 of the 137 answers that named Portkey and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

getmaxim.ai61

braintrust.dev55

dataiku.com53

cloudzero.com52

truefoundry.com52

dev.to51

orq.ai44

respan.ai44

techsy.io39

openrouter.ai26

477 of the 477 domain citations in answers naming Portkey came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dataiku.com/blog/best-llm-gateways53

cloudzero.com/blog/llm-gateways52

orq.ai/blog/best-llm-gateways42

techsy.io/en/blog/best-llm-gateway-tools39

respan.ai/articles/best-llm-gateways38

braintrust.dev/articles/best-llm-gateways-202631

truefoundry.com/blog/best-llm-gateways30

getmaxim.ai/articles/top-5-llm-gateways-in-2026-a-production-ready-comparison27

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Portkey

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

Portkey (Palo Alto Networks) 1

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at portkey.ai is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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