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1 category · Named, not ranked

Respan

7Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

6 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

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Respan was named 5 times in LLM gateways, where LiteLLM led with 38%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business8 of 44

under the label threshold

Mid-market16 of 63

under the label threshold

Enterprise42 of 62

under the label threshold

In llm 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 Respan 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	0%	16 of 63	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by LiteLLM at 38%

Movement

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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“An enterprise-focused LLM engineering platform that unifies an AI gateway with tracing, evaluation, and prompt management.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · LLM gateways · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Respan, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Respan was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

LiteLLM6 of 71Not in the top three

OpenRouter6 of 70Not in the top three

Portkey5 of 71Not in the top three

Bifrost4 of 71Not in the top three

Kong AI Gateway4 of 70Not in the top three

Braintrust Gateway3 of 71Not in the top three

Braintrust3 of 70Not in the top three

Cloudflare AI Gateway3 of 70Not in the top three

Merge Gateway2 of 71Not in the top three

Helicone2 of 70Not 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 Respan. 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 6 of the 7 answers that named Respan and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

respan.aiYour site6

dataiku.com5

braintrust.dev4

orq.ai4

techsy.io3

cloudzero.com2

dev.to2

getmaxim.ai2

opper.ai2

requesty.ai2

Twenty-six of the thirty-two domain citations in answers naming Respan came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dataiku.com/blog/best-llm-gateways5

respan.ai/articles/best-llm-gateways5

orq.ai/blog/best-llm-gateways4

braintrust.dev/articles/best-llm-gateways-20263

techsy.io/en/blog/best-llm-gateway-tools3

braintrust.dev/articles/best-llm-routers-20262

cloudzero.com/blog/llm-gateways2

requesty.ai/blog/best-llm-routing-platforms-compared-2026-requesty-portkey-litellm-openrou2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Respan

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

Respan (formerly Keywords AI) 1

Is this your product?

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 Respan'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 Respan, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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 respan.ai is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.