# Internal developer portals for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, October 2026

Gane Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "internal developer portal" and as "internal developer platform", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/developer/internal-developer-portals/2026-10/enterprise

This is the permanent record of the October 2026 Edition, published October 1, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/developer/internal-developer-portals/enterprise/index.md

**Standing:** Port leads with 25% of first choices; verdict contested. 60 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Port](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/port/index.md) | 25% | 10% | 60 |
| 2 | [Backstage](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/backstage/index.md) | 22% | 39% | 62 |
| 3 | [Roadie](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/roadie/index.md) | 10% | 3% | 33 |
| 4 | [Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/palo-alto-networks-cortex-cloud/index.md) | 10% | 19% | 47 |
| 5 | [Red Hat Developer Hub](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/red-hat-developer-hub/index.md) | 8% | 5% | 19 |
| 6 | [Humanitec](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/humanitec/index.md) | 5% | 4% | 27 |
| 7 | [Spotify Portal](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/spotify-portal/index.md) | 5% | 0% | 10 |
| 8 | [OpsLevel](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/opslevel/index.md) | 3% | 11% | 38 |
| 9 | [Atlassian Compass](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/atlassian-compass/index.md) | 3% | 19% | 21 |
| 14 | [Cycloid](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cycloid/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 10 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 52 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Port; alternatives Atlassian Compass, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud, Roadie
- GPT-5.4 mini: Backstage, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud; alternatives Compass, Port
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud, Port; alternatives OpsLevel, Red Hat Developer Hub, Roadie
- Perplexity Sonar: Red Hat Developer Hub; alternatives Backstage, Harness
- Grok 4.20: Roadie; alternatives Harness IDP, OpsLevel, Port
- Mistral Small: Backstage; alternatives Red Hat Developer Hub
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Backstage, Port, Spotify Portal; alternatives Humanitec, OpsLevel, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud, Roadie
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Port; alternatives Backstage, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud
- Kimi K2: Port; alternatives Backstage, OpsLevel, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud, Roadie
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Red Hat Developer Hub; alternatives Northflank, OpsLevel, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud, Port
- MiniMax M2.5: OpsLevel, Port; alternatives Harness Platform, Humanitec
- GPT-6 Luna: Port; alternatives Backstage, OpsLevel, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud, Spotify Portal
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Backstage, Port; alternatives Atlassian Compass, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud, Red Hat Developer Hub

## Sources the answers cite

77 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- cycloid.io: 41 answers, 67 citations
- guideflow.com: 40 answers, 54 citations
- port.io: 37 answers, 58 citations
- gartner.com: 33 answers, 37 citations
- dupple.com: 32 answers, 32 citations
- cortex.io: 27 answers, 40 citations
- roadie.io: 27 answers, 35 citations
- northflank.com: 23 answers, 30 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://guideflow.com/blog/internal-developer-platform (34 answers)
- https://gartner.com/reviews/market/internal-developer-portals (33 answers)
- https://dupple.com/learn/best-internal-developer-portals (32 answers)
- https://lucaberton.com/blog/internal-developer-platforms-2026 (20 answers)
- https://northflank.com/blog/top-internal-developer-portals (20 answers)
- https://roadie.io/blog/7-best-developer-portals-for-enterprise-engineering-teams (19 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/developer-portal-software (17 answers)
- https://dev.to/luciench/the-7-best-developer-portals-for-enterprise-teams-in-2025-4kgj (15 answers)
- https://cycloid.io/blog/top-11-internal-developer-platforms-idps-in-2026 (14 answers)
- https://guptadeepak.com/tools/top-6-internal-developer-portals-2026 (14 answers)

## Warned against

- Backstage: 24 of 62 labels negative. "the main internal developer portal (IDP) to approach with strong caution—or outright avoid unless you have significant dedicated resources—is self-hosted Backstage" (Grok 4.20, negative prompt)
- Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud: 9 of 47 labels negative. "Avoid: Per-user models without volume discounts (Cortex, Port at list price)" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Port: 6 of 60 labels negative. "Avoid: Per-user models without volume discounts (Cortex, Port at list price)" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Atlassian Compass: 4 of 21 labels negative. "Atlassian Compass reached end-of-sale in May 2026 and will be fully decommissioned by December 31, 2027." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, comparative prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, October 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.