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API gateways · November 2026 Edition

Zuplo vs Gravitee

Zero of fourteen models named Zuplo first on the direct prompt; zero named Gravitee. Zuplo was named by eleven of the fourteen models and Gravitee by ten and Zuplo carries 21 labels and Gravitee 19, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Zuplo

accepted challenger

Named in five categories this edition.

Gravitee

accepted challenger

Named in three categories this edition.

First-choice share2%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%5%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#6#7A position in a field of 15; printed, not drawn.
Labels2119A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Zuplo 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 Zuplo · Kong Gateway vs Gravitee · Amazon API Gateway vs Zuplo

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.
ZuploFirst choices, of fourteen modelsGravitee
Direct00
Paraphrase00
Comparative00
Budget-constrained10
Scale-constrained01
Negative001 against Gravitee
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, Zuplo and Gravitee were named in the same answer forty times, of the 178 answers naming Zuplo and the 135 naming Gravitee. In those answers Gravitee took the first choice two times and Zuplo eleven.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Zuplo and Gravitee 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
Zuplo Gravitee first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Zuplo on the left and Gravitee on the right.

The direct prompt

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

Neither was the first choice, one was named

6 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
DeepSeek V4 FlashAzure API Management, Kong Gateway alternatives: Gravitee, Tyk
MiniMax M2.5Kong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management, Gravitee, KrakenD, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Muse Glimmer 30BKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management, Zuplo

Neither was named

8 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniAmazon API Gateway, Azure API Management alternatives: Kong Gateway, Tyk
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
Kimi K2Kong Gateway alternatives: Azure API Management, Tyk
GLM 4.7 FlashXKong Gateway alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Azure API Management, Tyk
GPT-6 LunaTyk Cloud or Tyk Hybrid alternatives: Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management, Kong Gateway

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 twenty-nine points.
Zuplo29%#1 of 12
Gravitee0%#9 of 12
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
Zuplo2%#6 of 15
Gravitee2%#7 of 15
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Zuplo leads by two points.
Zuplo6%#4 of 11
Gravitee4%#5 of 11
The full enterprise standing →

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

What the models said about Gravitee

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

“Apimolo, Gravitee (SaaS) | Caution | Data residency issues; reliance on third-party uptime.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“An open-source, event-native API Gateway like Gravitee can offer flexibility and future-proofing.” Llama 4 Maverick · scale 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.