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API security platforms · November 2026 Edition

Zuplo vs Kong Gateway

Four of fourteen models named Zuplo first on the direct prompt; zero named Kong Gateway. Zuplo was named by eight of the fourteen models and Kong Gateway by nine and Zuplo carries 11 labels and Kong Gateway 16, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Zuplo

accepted challenger

Named in five categories this edition.

Kong Gateway

accepted challenger

Named in three categories this edition.

First-choice share14%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%12%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#8A position in a field of 15; printed, not drawn.
Labels1116A 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.Salt Security was named alongside these two in eight of the fourteen direct answers. Salt Security vs Zuplo · Salt Security vs Kong Gateway · Zuplo vs Wallarm API Security

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 security platforms 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 modelsKong Gateway
Direct40
Paraphrase10
Comparative00
Budget-constrained22
Scale-constrained00
Negative002 against Kong 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, Zuplo and Kong Gateway were named in the same answer 131 times, of the 178 answers naming Zuplo and the 444 naming Kong Gateway. In those answers Kong Gateway took the first choice forty-one times and Zuplo forty-three.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

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

Zuplo first, Kong Gateway an alternative

4 of 14 modelsKong Gateway was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Mistral SmallGravitee, Zuplo alternatives: Graylog, Kong Gateway
Qwen 3.7 Flash42Crunch, Zuplo alternatives: Aikido Security, Salt Security
GLM 4.7 FlashXZuplo alternatives: Akamai API Security, Cequence Unified API Protection
Muse Glimmer 30BZuplo alternatives: 42Crunch, Akamai API Security, Cloudflare Application Security and Performance, Imperva Application Security Platform, Salt Security

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Llama 4 MaverickWallarm API Security alternatives: Aikido Security, Gravitee, OWASP ZAP, Zuplo

Neither was named

9 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Orca Security alternatives: Check Point CloudGuard WAF, Cloudflare API Shield, Imperva API Security, Invicti API Security, Salt Security, Traceable API Security Platform
GPT-5.4 miniAkamai API Security alternatives: 42Crunch, Akto, Imperva API Security, Salt Security, Traceable API Security Platform, Wallarm API Security
Gemini 3.5 FlashWallarm API Security alternatives: 42Crunch, Cloudflare API Shield, Salt Security, Traceable API Security Platform
Perplexity SonarCloudflare API Shield alternatives: 42Crunch, Traceable API Security Platform
Grok 4.20Salt Security alternatives: Cequence Unified API Protection, Cloudflare API Shield, Fastly, Traceable API Security Platform, Wallarm API Security
DeepSeek V4 FlashWallarm API Security alternatives: 42Crunch, Akamai API Security, Cequence Unified API Protection, Cloudflare API Shield, Traceable API Security Platform
Kimi K2Levo.ai alternatives: 42Crunch, StackHawk, Wallarm API Security
MiniMax M2.5Salt Security alternatives: Cequence Unified API Protection, Imperva API Security, Noname Security, Traceable API Security Platform
GPT-6 LunaWallarm API Security alternatives: Akamai API Security, Cloudflare API Shield, Salt Security

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 four points.
Zuplo6%#5 of 13
Kong Gateway2%#– of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Zuplo leads by ten points.
Zuplo14%#2 of 15
Kong Gateway4%#8 of 15
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Kong Gateway leads at enterprise.
Kong Gateway2%#10 of 13
Zuplo0%#– of 13
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. Two of two in this category shown.

“Top Pick: Zuplo ... Zuplo is the best overall API security platform for a company with a limited budget” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with Zuplo if you want a low-cost, developer-friendly solution with built-in security” GLM 4.7 FlashX · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about Kong Gateway

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared
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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.