# Kong API Gateway: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/kong-api-gateway

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [LLM gateways and observability](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/llm-gateways-and-observability/index.md) | 0% | 77 | 0% | 1 |

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Kong API Gateway, from 2 of the 2 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- accuknox.com: 1
- appscale.blog: 1
- contabo.com: 1
- dataiku.com: 1
- fp8.co: 1
- gartner.com: 1
- getmaxim.ai: 1
- guideflow.com: 1
- guptadeepak.com: 1
- indusface.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://accuknox.com/blog/best-api-security-tools-2026: 1
- https://appscale.blog/en/blog/litellm-vs-portkey-vs-kong-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway-comparison-2026: 1
- https://contabo.com/blog/litellm-vs-ai-gateways: 1
- https://dataiku.com/blog/best-llm-gateways: 1
- https://fp8.co/articles/LLM-Gateway-Comparison-LiteLLM-vs-Portkey-vs-OpenRouter: 1
- https://gartner.com/reviews/market/api-protection: 1
- https://getmaxim.ai/articles/top-5-llm-gateways-in-2026-for-enterprise-grade-reliability-and-scale: 1
- https://guideflow.com/blog/api-security-tools: 1

## Record

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