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
API management	Developer platform	4%	6 of 55	20%	20	accepted challenger
API gateways	Developer platform	0%	43 of 51	100%	1	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 WSO2 API Manager 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 WSO2 API Manager 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	2	0	1	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	2	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labels1

Comparative13 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labels2

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative14 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative46 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“I'd usually recommend WSO2 API Platform / API Manager if you want a single, integrated API lifecycle + developer portal” GPT-5.4 mini · API management · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Best overall for limited budget: Tyk or WSO2” GPT-5.4 mini · API management · budget prompt · first choice

“WSO2 API Manager - if you prefer open-source with strong portal capabilities” Claude Haiku 4.5 · API management · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“WSO2 if you want a comprehensive solution with strong community support” MiniMax M2.5 · API management · budget 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.

“Multiple critical vulnerabilities (e.g., CVE-2026-5430: CVSS 10.0 auth bypass allowing full admin takeover)” Grok 4.1 Fast · API management · negative prompt · hard negative

“Complex configuration, steep learning curve, and resource-intensive” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API management · negative prompt · hard negative

“WSO2 has historically struggled with "Commercial Edition" adoption and clear pricing models” Qwen 3.7 Flash · API management · negative prompt · soft negative

“Approach with caution: WSO2 API Manager (maintenance and community support concerns)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API gateways · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as WSO2 API Manager, over the 46 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Kong Gateway42 of 4611Not in the top three

Apigee39 of 4612Not in the top three

Amazon API Gateway36 of 462Not in the top three

Azure API Management34 of 461Not in the top three

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform33 of 463Not in the top three

Tyk30 of 461Not in the top three

IBM API Connect23 of 462Not in the top three

Gravitee15 of 460Not in the top three

Postman10 of 460Not in the top three

Zuplo7 of 463Not 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 WSO2 API Manager. 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 41 of the 46 answers that named WSO2 API Manager and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

zuplo.com26

gartner.com21

moesif.com20

integrate.io17

improvado.io15

g2.com14

wso2.comYour site14

api7.ai13

blog.axway.com11

cloud.google.com10

147 of the 161 domain citations in answers naming WSO2 API Manager came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/api-management20

moesif.com/blog/technical/api-development/Top-API-Managers18

improvado.io/blog/top-api-management-tools15

integrate.io/blog/api-management-tools15

zuplo.com/learning-center/best-api-management-platforms-202612

blog.axway.com/learning-center/apis/api-management/list-api-management-vendors11

swagger.io/blog/best-api-lifecycle-management-platforms10

api7.ai/top-5-api-management-comparison8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 10WSO2 API Platform / API Manager 1

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