# Amazon API Gateway alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 287 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Amazon API Gateway holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-api-gateway/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Kong Gateway: 52
- Apigee: 36
- Zuplo: 18
- Tyk: 14
- Azure API Management: 11
- Gravitee: 9

## API gateways

**Small business**: 29 of 84 answers did not name Amazon API Gateway (Amazon API Gateway is #3 of 12 at 23%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 5 of those 29
- Zuplo: first choice in 5 of those 29
- Tyk: first choice in 3 of those 29
- Apache APISIX: first choice in 1 of those 29
- Caddy: first choice in 1 of those 29
- Cloudflare Workers: first choice in 1 of those 29
- KrakenD: first choice in 1 of those 29
- NGINX: first choice in 1 of those 29

**Mid-market**: 33 of 84 answers did not name Amazon API Gateway (Amazon API Gateway is #2 of 15 at 8%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 9 of those 33
- Tyk: first choice in 2 of those 33
- Amazon API Gateway's HTTP API: first choice in 1 of those 33
- Apache APISIX: first choice in 1 of those 33
- Azure API Management: first choice in 1 of those 33
- Cloudflare API Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 33
- Envoy: first choice in 1 of those 33
- Gravitee: first choice in 1 of those 33

**Enterprise**: 55 of 84 answers did not name Amazon API Gateway (Amazon API Gateway is #8 of 11 at 2%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 11 of those 55
- Apigee: first choice in 10 of those 55
- Gravitee: first choice in 3 of those 55
- Zuplo: first choice in 3 of those 55
- Axway Amplify Platform: first choice in 1 of those 55
- Azure API Management: first choice in 1 of those 55
- Envoy: first choice in 1 of those 55
- Istio: first choice in 1 of those 55

## API management

**Small business**: 33 of 84 answers did not name Amazon API Gateway (Amazon API Gateway is #4 of 12 at 10%).

- Zuplo: first choice in 8 of those 33
- Postman: first choice in 6 of those 33
- Kong Gateway: first choice in 5 of those 33
- Azure API Management: first choice in 1 of those 33
- DigitalAPI: first choice in 1 of those 33
- ReadMe: first choice in 1 of those 33
- WSO2 API Manager: first choice in 1 of those 33

**Mid-market**: 62 of 84 answers did not name Amazon API Gateway (Amazon API Gateway is #7 of 11 at 5%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 20 of those 62
- Tyk: first choice in 5 of those 62
- Azure API Management: first choice in 4 of those 62
- Gravitee: first choice in 3 of those 62
- Postman: first choice in 3 of those 62
- Apigee: first choice in 2 of those 62
- WSO2 API Manager: first choice in 2 of those 62
- Zuplo: first choice in 2 of those 62

**Enterprise**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Amazon API Gateway (Amazon API Gateway is #11 of 11 at 0%).

- Apigee: first choice in 24 of those 75
- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: first choice in 7 of those 75
- Azure API Management: first choice in 4 of those 75
- Tyk: first choice in 4 of those 75
- Axway Amplify API Management: first choice in 3 of those 75
- WSO2 API Manager: first choice in 3 of those 75
- Gravitee: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Kong Gateway: first choice in 2 of those 75

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