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1 category · Named, not ranked

Red Hat 3scale

9Judge labels

2First choices

3Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

1Category

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

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Red Hat 3scale was named 6 times in API management, where Kong Gateway led with 37%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business9 of 47

under the label threshold

Mid-market43 of 55

under the label threshold

Enterprise11 of 44

under the label threshold

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 Red Hat 3scale 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	0%	43 of 55	33%	6	under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 37%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Red Hat 3scale 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 Red Hat 3scale across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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 you are a small business without a dedicated DevOps team: Choose Red Hat 3scale.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API management · budget prompt · alternative

“Flexible and scalable API deployment, APIcast gateway” Mistral Small · 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.

“Other outdated API gateways such as Kong, 3scale, and Layer7 are also not fit for modern cloud-native architectures.” Llama 4 Maverick · API management · negative prompt · hard negative

“some organizations experienced integration difficulties and price increases” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API management · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Red Hat 3scale, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Red Hat 3scale was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Apigee8 of 91Not in the top three

Kong Gateway8 of 90Not in the top three

Tyk6 of 91Not in the top three

Azure API Management5 of 90Not in the top three

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform5 of 90Not in the top three

Amazon API Gateway4 of 90Not in the top three

IBM API Connect3 of 90Not in the top three

Akana2 of 90Not in the top three

Gravitee2 of 90Not in the top three

Postman2 of 90Not 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 Red Hat 3scale. 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 7 of the 9 answers that named Red Hat 3scale and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com4

accutivefintech.com3

improvado.io3

moesif.com3

technologyadvice.com3

appsentinels.ai2

g2.com2

nordicapis.com2

reddit.com2

solo.io2

Twenty-six of the twenty-six domain citations in answers naming Red Hat 3scale came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

accutivefintech.com/insights/top-gartner-api-management-tools-for-2024-253

gartner.com/reviews/market/api-management3

improvado.io/blog/top-api-management-tools3

technologyadvice.com/api-management-software3

appsentinels.ai/academy/api-management-tools-gartner2

moesif.com/blog/technical/api-development/Top-API-Managers2

nordicapis.com/best-api-management-tools-in-20242

solo.io/blog/avoid-apigee-api-gateway2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Red Hat 3scale

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Red Hat 3scale; a claim can dispute any of them.

3Scale (Red Hat) 23scale 2

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