Every category where a model named Zuplo 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	16%	2 of 51	0%	27	accepted challenger
API management	Developer platform	11%	4 of 55	12%	16	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Zuplo 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 Zuplo 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	2	0	1	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	4	0	0	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	2	2	1	0	5
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	4	1	7
Mistral Small	0	1	2	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	3	1	4
Llama 4 Maverick	2	0	2	0	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	0	1
Kimi K2	1	3	0	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	3	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	2	2	0	0	4

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

Direct26 labels17

Paraphrase20 labels15

Comparative34 labels19not counted in share

Budget-constrained33 labels16

Scale-constrained21 labels9

Negative15 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative149 labels in all, every segment counted; 57 of the 79 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.

“Best Managed Developer Experience... starts at $0 to $25/month, and gives you a professional Stripe-like developer portal instantly.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API management · budget prompt · first choice

“Zuplo: Best for Fast-Growing B2B SaaS & GitOps ... Extremely fast setup, serverless, beautiful out-of-the-box Developer Portal” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API gateways · direct prompt · first choice

“If you want a single "default" recommendation, Zuplo is the better fit for most mid-sized B2B teams” Perplexity Sonar · API management · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend starting with Kong ... or Zuplo (if you want something managed and modern)” MiniMax M2.5 · API gateways · direct prompt · first choice

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.

“Excellent DX, but less mature for regulatory/compliance-heavy B2B needs (no on-prem option).” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API management · direct prompt · soft negative

“Riskier for complex B2B but fast setup.” Grok 4.1 Fast · API management · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Zuplo, over the 149 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Zuplo was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Kong Gateway138 of 14926Compare →

Amazon API Gateway129 of 1493Not in the top three

Tyk109 of 1497Compare →

Apigee73 of 1493Not in the top three

Azure API Management58 of 1492Not in the top three

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform40 of 1490Not in the top three

Gravitee33 of 1491Not in the top three

Postman27 of 1496Not in the top three

Apache APISIX26 of 1493Not in the top three

Traefik22 of 1490Not 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 Zuplo. 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 133 of the 149 answers that named Zuplo and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

zuplo.comYour site118

toolradar.com58

dupple.com57

moesif.com54

api7.ai52

knoxcall.com51

reddit.com51

digitalapi.ai50

geekflare.com48

integrate.io44

465 of the 583 domain citations in answers naming Zuplo came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

toolradar.com/guides/best-api-gateways58

dupple.com/learn/best-api-gateways57

geekflare.com/guides/best-api-gateways48

knoxcall.com/blog/article/best-api-gateways-small-teams-202648

integrate.io/blog/api-management-tools43

moesif.com/blog/technical/api-development/Top-API-Managers40

zuplo.com/learning-center/best-api-gateways-startups-202640

reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1s36hm2/best_api_management_tools_for_smaller_companies39

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Zuplo

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

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