# Apigee alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 373 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Apigee 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/apigee/alternatives

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

- Kong Gateway: 111
- Zuplo: 51
- Amazon API Gateway: 36
- Tyk: 24
- Postman: 19
- Azure API Management: 9

## API management

**Small business**: 79 of 84 answers did not name Apigee (Apigee is #12 of 12 at 0%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 24 of those 79
- Zuplo: first choice in 19 of those 79
- Postman: first choice in 15 of those 79
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 8 of those 79
- Tyk: first choice in 3 of those 79
- Azure API Management: first choice in 2 of those 79
- WSO2 API Manager: first choice in 2 of those 79
- DigitalAPI: first choice in 1 of those 79

**Mid-market**: 67 of 84 answers did not name Apigee (Apigee is #9 of 11 at 0%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 26 of those 67
- Postman: first choice in 4 of those 67
- Tyk: first choice in 4 of those 67
- Zuplo: first choice in 4 of those 67
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 3 of those 67
- WSO2 API Manager: first choice in 3 of those 67
- Azure API Management: first choice in 2 of those 67
- Gravitee: first choice in 2 of those 67

**Enterprise**: 43 of 84 answers did not name Apigee (Apigee is #1 of 11 at 46%).

- Tyk: first choice in 4 of those 43
- Kong Gateway: first choice in 3 of those 43
- Azure API Management: first choice in 2 of those 43
- Gravitee: first choice in 2 of those 43
- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: first choice in 2 of those 43
- WSO2 API Manager: first choice in 2 of those 43
- Axway Amplify API Management: first choice in 1 of those 43
- Google Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 43

## API gateways

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Apigee (Apigee is #12 of 12 at 0%).

- Zuplo: first choice in 28 of those 84
- Kong Gateway: first choice in 22 of those 84
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 19 of those 84
- Tyk: first choice in 9 of those 84
- KrakenD: first choice in 4 of those 84
- Apache APISIX: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Cloudflare Workers: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Caddy: first choice in 1 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 63 of 84 answers did not name Apigee (Apigee is #12 of 15 at 0%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 32 of those 63
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 5 of those 63
- Apache APISIX: first choice in 4 of those 63
- Tyk: first choice in 4 of those 63
- Azure API Management: first choice in 2 of those 63
- Amazon API Gateway's HTTP API: first choice in 1 of those 63
- Cloudflare API Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 63
- Envoy: first choice in 1 of those 63

**Enterprise**: 37 of 84 answers did not name Apigee (Apigee is #1 of 11 at 42%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 4 of those 37
- Gravitee: first choice in 3 of those 37
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 37
- Azure API Management: first choice in 1 of those 37
- Envoy: first choice in 1 of those 37
- KrakenD: first choice in 1 of those 37
- LiteLLM: first choice in 1 of those 37
- NGINX: first choice in 1 of those 37

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