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1 category · Named, not ranked

Spring Cloud Gateway

4Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

3 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Spring Cloud Gateway was named 3 times in API gateways, where Kong Gateway led with 61%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market14 of 51

under the label threshold

Enterprise36 of 42

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 Spring Cloud Gateway 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 gateways	Developer platform	0%	14 of 51	0%	3	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 Spring Cloud Gateway 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 Spring Cloud Gateway across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

“Modern replacement for Zuul, reactive (non-blocking)” Kimi K2 · API gateways · negative prompt · first choice

“If you are in the Java/Spring ecosystem, use Spring Cloud Gateway” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API gateways · negative 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 Spring Cloud Gateway, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spring Cloud Gateway was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Kong Gateway4 of 41Not in the top three

Amazon API Gateway4 of 40Not in the top three

Apigee4 of 40Not in the top three

Netflix Zuul4 of 40Not in the top three

Tyk3 of 41Not in the top three

Apache APISIX2 of 41Not in the top three

Gloo Gateway2 of 41Not in the top three

Azure API Management2 of 40Not in the top three

Express Gateway2 of 40Not in the top three

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform2 of 40Not 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 Spring Cloud Gateway. 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 2 of the 4 answers that named Spring Cloud Gateway and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

api7.ai2

reddit.com2

zuplo.com2

ankurm.com1

apigate.in1

blog.csdn.net1

code4it.dev1

codecentric.de1

dashbird.io1

digitalapi.ai1

Thirteen of the thirteen domain citations in answers naming Spring Cloud Gateway came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ankurm.com/spring-cloud-netflix-migration-guide1

api7.ai/api-gateway-comparison1

api7.ai/learning-center/api-gateway-guide/ai-gateway-vs-mcp-gateway-vs-api-gateway1

apigate.in/blogs/modernizing-legacy-apis1

blog.csdn.net/blog_programb/article/details/1046304061

code4it.dev/architecture-notes/api-gateway-pros-and-cons1

codecentric.de/en/knowledge-hub/blog/charge-your-apis-volume-30-gateway-to-success-underst1

dashbird.io/knowledge-base/api-gateway/pros-and-cons-of-using-an-api-gateway1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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