2 categories · RankedReadMe
ReadMe is a developer portal tool for publishing customer-facing API documentation · readme.com ↗
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.
Kong Gateway is first at 27%.
Kong Gateway is first at 47%.
Apigee is first at 46%.
Why models recommend it
“Top Recommendation: ReadMe (for Developer Portal) or Kong Konnect (for Full Lifecycle)”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“I recommend a combination of Postman + ReadMe.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“noted as the undisputed leader for partner-facing developer experiences, though "Primarily a documentation"”Muse Glimmer 30B · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Superior analytics, beautiful docs, but more focused on documentation than full lifecycle”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as ReadMe, over the 26 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 2 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 2 | View → | |
| 7 | 2 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 5 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on ReadMe's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- developers
- Price stated
- Starter $0 /month; Pro $250 /month; Enterprise Contact Us
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Free for everyone; Start free trial
- Integrations
- 9
- Certifications
- GDPR, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, WCAG 2.1
- Hosting
- USA
- Customers named
- NVIDIA, Amazon, PagerDuty, XFX, Paylocity, Socure, Roku, OneTrust
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 21 of the 26 answers that named ReadMe and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-one of the fifty-nine domain citations in answers naming ReadMe 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 148 | 16 | 2026-09-16 | ||
| Case study | 11 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 8 | 4 | 2026-09-22 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | 3 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | 0 | 2017-01-11 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-22Mintlify alternatives comparison
- 2026-09-17What is api documentation glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-16Mcp metrics blog
- 2026-09-15Is readme worth it blog
- 2026-09-14Readme vs fern comparison
- 2026-09-09Introducing Ask AI V2 and a New Search Experience blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page readme.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. Read September 29, 2026.