Small businessnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 51 of 53, unchanged
WSO2 · 2 categories · RankedWSO2 API Manager
58Judge labels
3First choices
15Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in API management for enterprise buyers
Rank 11 of 66 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 43% of its 7 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of WSO2 API Manager →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business57 of 59
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market11 of 66
2%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise27 of 65
0%4 labels
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 WSO2 API Manager 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API gateways | Developer platform | 2% | 11 of 66 | 43% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 53% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| API management | Developer platform | 2% | 10 of 61 | 25% | 20 | criticized challenger | ▼−3Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, WSO2 API Manager held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · API gateways · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 39 → 10 of 58
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 19 → 27 of 59
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API management | 4% | 2% | ▼−3Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 10 of 61 |
| API gateways | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 39 → 11 of 66 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated WSO2 API Manager across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated WSO2 API Manager across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct4 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative17 labelsNone
Budget-constrained12 labels3
Scale-constrained6 labelsNone
Negative16 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative58 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 5 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.
“WSO2 API Manager is the most complete API management platform you can run without paying a license fee” Claude Haiku 4.5 · API management · budget prompt · first choice
“I recommend starting with Tyk Open Source or WSO2 API Manager” MiniMax M2.5 · API gateways · budget prompt · first choice
“Comprehensive feature set, full API lifecycle management... Can be resource-intensive, steeper learning curve” MiniMax M2.5 · API management · budget prompt · alternative
“If you want an open‑source solution with strong protocol support and AI assistance → WSO2 API Manager” GLM 4.7 FlashX · 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.
“CVE-2026-5430 (CVSS 9.8, path traversal/RCE, added to CISA KEV Sep 2026)” Grok 4.20 · API gateways · negative prompt · hard negative
“Status: AVOID UNTIL PATCHED” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API management · negative prompt · hard negative
“WSO2 is one of the few fully open-source enterprise-grade API managers available, but it is incredibly complex.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API management · negative prompt · soft negative
“WSO2 relies on a heavy proprietary core that can make scaling and containerizing instances difficult” Qwen 3.7 Flash · API gateways · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as WSO2 API Manager, over the 58 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and WSO2 API Manager was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as WSO2 API Manager, over the 58 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and WSO2 API Manager was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 WSO2 API Manager. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 55 of the 58 answers that named WSO2 API Manager and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
integrate.io33
zuplo.com24
gravitee.io19
g2.com17
technologyadvice.com16
blog.9cv9.com15
devopsschool.com14
dupple.com12
geekflare.com12
digitalapi.ai11
173 of the 173 domain citations in answers naming WSO2 API Manager came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
wso2.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, WSO2 API Manager takes 2% of first choices and Kong Gateway takes 53%.ShowHide
Search and answers
wso2.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, WSO2 API Manager takes 2% of first choices and Kong Gateway takes 53%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “api gateway”
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not in the top ten
Position for “api gateways”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 170 a month (“wso2 api manager”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3 a month
- Its company's site
- wso2.com shared with WSO2's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 4,715 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,933 · 65 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 6,472
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 11 of 66 in API gateways
Segment leader
53%
Kong Gateway
- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 58 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 55 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as WSO2 API Manager
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as WSO2 API Manager; a claim can dispute any of them.
WSO2 12IBM API Connect / WSO2 1WSO2 API Manager/Control Plane 1
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The company
WSO2 is the company behind WSO2 API Manager.ShowHide
The company
WSO2 is the company behind WSO2 API Manager.
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Company records- Also from WSO2
- WSO2 AI Gateway, WSO2 Identity Server
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- enables the design and prototyping of API’s with the ability to publish, manage, monitor, and monetize API’s
- For
- PT ASABRI (Persero)
- Customers named
- ApogeePT ASABRI (Persero)
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What WSO2 API Manager's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: wso2.com/customers/apogee-goes-beyond-compliance-with-wso2-api-manager, wso2.com/customers/enhancing-asabris-business-operations-with-wso2-api-manager, wso2.com/library/blogs/wso2-api-manager-4-7-release, wso2.com/blogs/thesource/introducing-wso2-api-manager-4-1, wso2.com/blogs/thesource/introducing-wso2-api-manager-4-2. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
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