One of fourteen models named Amazon API Gateway first on the direct prompt; one named Tyk. Both were named by all fourteen models and Amazon API Gateway carries 74 labels and Tyk 51, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in four categories this edition.
Named in four categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the API gateways page.
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Amazon API Gateway and Tyk were named in the same answer 227 times, of the 396 answers naming Amazon API Gateway and the 271 naming Tyk. In those answers Tyk took the first choice twenty-one times and Amazon API Gateway seventeen.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | ||||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | ||||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | ||||||
| Perplexity Sonar | ||||||
| Grok 4.20 | ||||||
| Mistral Small | ||||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | ||||||
| Llama 4 Maverick | ||||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | ||||||
| Kimi K2 | ||||||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | ||||||
| MiniMax M2.5 | ||||||
| GPT-6 Luna | ||||||
| Muse Glimmer 30B |
Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“Very low traffic / early-stage startup | AWS API Gateway (HTTP API) | Virtually $0/month, zero infrastructure management.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“AWS API Gateway + ALB if you're cloud-native and want integrated monitoring with CloudWatch” Claude Haiku 4.5 · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“Apigee, Tyk, Kong, and similar products can impose unnecessary operational and configuration overhead if you only need a reverse proxy” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · soft negative
“Complex initial setup: Configuration and onboarding are notoriously complex” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“Start with a proof-of-concept of Kong or Tyk unless you're deeply tied to one hyperscaler.” Grok 4.20 · direct prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.