2 categories · RankedKrakenD
KrakenD is an API gateway that aggregates and mediates requests across multiple back-end services, aimed at teams running microservices and AI workloads · krakend.io ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Zuplo is first at 29%.
Kong Gateway is first at 63%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Apigee is first at 42%.
Why models recommend it
“Choose KrakenD if you need maximum throughput with simple declarative routing”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Tight hosting budget (cheap VPS) | KrakenD | Uses minimal CPU/RAM”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“If your top cost driver is Cloud Compute (RAM/CPU): Choose KrakenD”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Best for High Performance at Low Cost: KrakenD”MiniMax M2.5 · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
“lightweight open-source microservices proxies (like Envoy or KrakenD, which require custom tooling to build B2B features)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as KrakenD, over the 48 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 19 | View → | |
| 44 | 5 | View → | |
| 38 | 6 | View → | |
| 30 | 0 | View → | |
| 29 | 0 | View → | |
| 24 | 9 | View → | |
| 16 | 4 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of KrakenD →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on KrakenD's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- microservices and AI workloads
- Price stated
- Stable, Flat Pricing
- Free plan or trial
- free and open source Community Edition
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II
- Hosting
- on-prem, any cloud, air-gapped
- Customers named
- Openroom Inc., Coop Atlantique, Hepsiburada, Gundlach Automotive, IBM, Single.Earth, Smart Tribune, lastminute.com
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 39 of the 48 answers that named KrakenD and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
139 of the 139 domain citations in answers naming KrakenD came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 146 | 8 | 2026-09-14 | API gateways | |
| Case study | 47 | 3 | 2026-09-09 | ||
| Comparison | 6 | 3 | 2026-08-26 | API gateways | |
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated | API gateways |
Most recent
- 2026-09-14Krakend 2.13.10 ee release notes blog
- 2026-09-09Unigroup case study
- 2026-09-08Krakend 2.13.9 ee 2.13.11 ce release notes blog
- 2026-08-26Krakend vs aws api gateway comparison
- 2026-08-26Krakend vs tyk comparison
- 2026-08-20Krakend 2.13.8 ee 2.13.10 ce release notes blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page krakend.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.