4 categories · RankedPostman
Postman is an API platform for building, testing, documenting and collaborating on APIs, positioned as AI-native · postman.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Ranked 68 of 69 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Kong Gateway is first at 27%.
Kong Gateway is first at 47%.
Apigee is first at 46%.
Why models recommend it
“For most small businesses, Postman offers the best balance of features, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness.”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Postman and Stoplight are excellent choices for API lifecycle and developer portal needs”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
“I recommend a combination of Postman + ReadMe.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Top Recommendation: Postman”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Don't choose Postman as your API management platform—it's a development tool, not a management layer”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“Major examples include Postman, Kong, WSO2, and Tyk... these are "control planes," not security engines”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Users often face slow performance with Postman, especially when dealing with large projects”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Performance issues with large datasets | Akamai API Security, Postman”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Postman, over the 131 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 82 | 28 | Compare → | |
| 72 | 5 | View → | |
| 72 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 52 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 50 | 3 | View → | |
| 48 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 40 | 17 | Compare → | |
| 34 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 30 | 0 | View → | |
| 26 | 1 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Postman →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Postman's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Built for engineers. Designed for enterprise scale.
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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 119 of the 131 answers that named Postman and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
352 of the 352 domain citations in answers naming Postman 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 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,064 | 44 | 2026-09-25 | API gateways, API management | |
| Glossary or explainer | 120 | 0 | 2026-01-06 | API gateways | |
| Conference or event | 77 | 0 | 2026-06-09 | ||
| Comparison | 77 | 1 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Report or ebook | 49 | 0 | 2022-05-10 | ||
| News or press | 32 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 22 | 0 | 2023-06-09 | ||
| Template or tool | 18 | 0 | 2020-10-28 | ||
| Podcast or video | 11 | undated | |||
| Case study | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-25From api keys to access control rethinking secrets management blog
- 2026-09-24What passport found in 3 weeks of ai agent traffic blog
- 2026-09-24I gave jev a paddle can you beat jev at pong blog
- 2026-09-22Introducing the context graph api one map of your api ecosystem blog
- 2026-09-17Sdk vs cli vs mcp a dev story comparison
- 2026-09-16Scheduling grpc and graphql requests with postman monitors beta blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page postman.com 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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.