Index › IT › Developer platform › API gateways › Amazon API Gateway vs Zuplo
API gateways · November 2026 Edition

Amazon API Gateway vs Zuplo

One of fourteen models named Amazon API Gateway first on the direct prompt; zero named Zuplo. Amazon API Gateway was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Zuplo by eleven and Amazon API Gateway carries 74 labels and Zuplo 21, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Amazon API Gateway

accepted challenger

Named in four categories this edition.

Zuplo

accepted challenger

Named in five categories this edition.

First-choice share8%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate19%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#6A position in a field of 15; printed, not drawn.
Labels7421A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Amazon API Gateway reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Kong Gateway was named alongside these two in fourteen of the fourteen direct answers. Kong Gateway vs Amazon API Gateway · Kong Gateway vs Zuplo · Amazon API Gateway vs Tyk

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.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Amazon API GatewayFirst choices, of fourteen modelsZuplo
Direct101 against Amazon API Gateway
Paraphrase101 against Amazon API Gateway
Comparative00
Budget-constrained312 against Amazon API Gateway
Scale-constrained00
Negative0010 against Amazon API Gateway
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Amazon API Gateway and Zuplo were named in the same answer 124 times, of the 396 answers naming Amazon API Gateway and the 178 naming Zuplo. In those answers Zuplo took the first choice forty-seven times and Amazon API Gateway five.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Amazon API Gateway and Zuplo stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
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
Amazon API Gateway Zuplo first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Amazon API Gateway on the left and Zuplo on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Amazon API Gateway and Zuplo stood in it.

Amazon API Gateway first, Zuplo not the choice

1 of 14 modelsZuplo was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniAmazon API Gateway, Azure API Management alternatives: Kong Gateway, Tyk

Neither was the first choice, one was named

11 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Kong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Tyk, Zuplo
Gemini 3.5 FlashKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management, Gravitee, Tyk
Perplexity SonarKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management, Zuplo
Grok 4.20Kong Gateway, Tyk alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management
Mistral SmallKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management, Tyk
Llama 4 MaverickKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Apache APISIX, Azure API Management, NGINX
Qwen 3.7 FlashKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Azure API Management
GLM 4.7 FlashXKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Azure API Management, Tyk
MiniMax M2.5Kong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management, Gravitee, KrakenD, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
GPT-6 LunaTyk Cloud or Tyk Hybrid alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management, Kong Gateway
Muse Glimmer 30BKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management, Zuplo

Neither was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
DeepSeek V4 FlashAzure API Management, Kong Gateway alternatives: Gravitee, Tyk
Kimi K2Kong Gateway alternatives: Azure API Management, Tyk

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.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Zuplo leads by six points.
Zuplo29%#1 of 12
Amazon API Gateway23%#3 of 12
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Amazon API Gateway leads at mid-market.
Amazon API Gateway8%#2 of 15
Zuplo2%#6 of 15
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Zuplo leads at enterprise.
Zuplo6%#4 of 11
Amazon API Gateway2%#8 of 11
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Amazon API Gateway

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

What the models said about Zuplo

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“The best API gateway for a company with a limited budget is Zuplo, as it offers a free tier” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice
Also compared

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.