When asked for the best API management platform, 6 AI assistants named 8 brands between them this month. Kong was named most often, followed by Apigee and AWS API Gateway. No brand was named by every assistant that answered.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kong | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 5 of 6 |
| Apigee | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| AWS API Gateway | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Tyk | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Postman | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | 3 of 6 |
| Zuplo | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Gravitee | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Kong Konnect | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 4 brands, in this order: Postman, Kong, Apigee, Tyk.
Choosing the best API management platform for a small business depends on various factors such as budget, ease of use, specific features needed, scalability, and the existing technology stack.
Perplexity
Named 5 brands, in this order: Postman, AWS API Gateway, Kong, Gravitee, Zuplo.
For a small business, the best overall API management platform in the results is Postman: it is repeatedly positioned as the top small-business choice, has a strong small-business user base, and is explicitly labeled “Best for SMBs” in one pricing listing.
Claude
Named 5 brands, in this order: Postman, Kong, AWS API Gateway, Apigee, Tyk.
Would you like more details about any specific platform?
Grok
Named 6 brands, in this order: Kong, Kong Konnect, AWS API Gateway, Tyk, Zuplo, Apigee.
DeepSeek
Named 5 brands, in this order: Kong, Kong Konnect, Tyk, Gravitee, Zuplo.
There isn't one single "best" API management platform — it depends on your budget, technical team, and use case.
Cohere
Named 2 brands, in this order: AWS API Gateway, Apigee.
Choosing the best API management platform for a small business depends on several factors, including budget, scalability, ease of use, and specific feature requirements.
The questions asked
- What is the best API management platform for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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