Every category where a model named Postman 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 management	Developer platform	2%	8 of 55	13%	15	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Postman 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 Postman 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	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	1	3
Mistral Small	1	1	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1	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

Direct10 labels4

Paraphrase14 labels3

Comparative9 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained11 labels2

Scale-constrained6 labels1

Negative12 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative62 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 13 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.

“If your team is very small or just starting, Postman's free tier is often the best entry point.” Mistral Small · API management · budget prompt · first choice

“Postman - if you prioritize developer experience and API design ... It is not a runtime API gateway” Claude Haiku 4.5 · API management · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Postman is also a solid choice, especially if your team is already familiar with its ecosystem.” Mistral Small · API management · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Less "heavy gateway" than Kong; great for B2B distribution but pair with a gateway.” Grok 4.1 Fast · API management · 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.

“It is not a production API management platform. The free tier is severely limited for teams” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API management · budget prompt · soft negative

“Free for design/testing, but lighter on full management.” Grok 4.1 Fast · API management · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Postman, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Postman was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Kong Gateway56 of 6214Not in the top three

Amazon API Gateway48 of 624Not in the top three

Tyk40 of 625Not in the top three

Azure API Management30 of 623Not in the top three

Zuplo27 of 6211Not in the top three

Apigee27 of 623Not in the top three

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform21 of 620Not in the top three

Gravitee13 of 621Not in the top three

Stoplight11 of 621Not in the top three

IBM API Connect11 of 620Not 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 Postman. 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 55 of the 62 answers that named Postman and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com38

zuplo.com36

integrate.io30

moesif.com26

digitalapi.ai23

reddit.com23

gartner.com20

trakkr.ai19

improvado.io18

checkthat.ai17

250 of the 250 domain citations in answers naming Postman came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

integrate.io/blog/api-management-tools30

g2.com/categories/api-management/small-business29

moesif.com/blog/technical/api-development/Top-API-Managers21

gartner.com/reviews/market/api-management20

reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1s36hm2/best_api_management_tools_for_smaller_companies20

zuplo.com/learning-center/best-api-management-platforms-202620

trakkr.ai/ai-recommends/api-management/small-business19

improvado.io/blog/top-api-management-tools18

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Postman

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

Postman Enterprise 2Postman/Stoplight 1

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