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  "category": "API platforms",
  "slug": "api-platforms",
  "niche": "devops",
  "niche_name": "DevOps & developer-infrastructure tools",
  "niche_short": "DevOps & dev tools",
  "description": "Which API management and gateway platforms do AI engines recommend when teams ask what to use to design, secure, publish and scale their APIs?",
  "audience": "Platform engineers, backend teams, and the founders + DevRel who sell API infrastructure",
  "methodology": {
    "metric": "share-of-model",
    "metric_definition": "Share-of-model = the percentage of all product recommendations, across every buyer prompt and engine, that name a given product. It answers: when an AI recommends something in this category, how often is it this product?",
    "runs_per_prompt_per_engine": 10,
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      "Perplexity",
      "Google Gemini",
      "ChatGPT (OpenAI)",
      "Claude (Anthropic)",
      "Grok (xAI)"
    ],
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      "perplexity",
      "gemini",
      "openai",
      "anthropic",
      "grok"
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      "Perplexity",
      "Google Gemini",
      "ChatGPT (OpenAI)",
      "Claude (Anthropic)",
      "Grok (xAI)"
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      "perplexity",
      "gemini",
      "openai",
      "anthropic",
      "grok"
    ],
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    "coverage_note": "",
    "n_prompts": 10,
    "total_answers": 500,
    "errors": 0,
    "confidence_interval": "Wilson score interval, 95% (z=1.96)",
    "sample_size_note": "n=500: this supports a ±5pp claim (~±4pp at this n; ~385 answers needed for ±5pp).",
    "provenance": {
      "surface": "api",
      "mode": "live",
      "region": "US/English",
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          "engine": "perplexity",
          "display": "Perplexity",
          "model": "sonar",
          "api_version": "api.perplexity.ai/chat/completions",
          "grounding": true
        },
        {
          "engine": "gemini",
          "display": "Gemini",
          "model": "gemini-2.5-flash",
          "api_version": "generativelanguage/v1beta:generateContent",
          "grounding": true
        },
        {
          "engine": "openai",
          "display": "ChatGPT",
          "model": "gpt-4.1",
          "api_version": "api.openai.com/v1/responses",
          "grounding": true
        },
        {
          "engine": "anthropic",
          "display": "Claude",
          "model": "claude-sonnet-4-5",
          "api_version": "api.anthropic.com/v1/messages (2023-06-01)",
          "grounding": true
        },
        {
          "engine": "grok",
          "display": "Grok",
          "model": "grok-3",
          "api_version": "api.x.ai/v1/chat/completions",
          "grounding": true
        }
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      "grounding_all_on": true,
      "approximation_note": "API answers approximate, but do not exactly replicate, what a human sees in the consumer app (different system prompts, tools, and browsing defaults).",
      "consumer_surfaces": [
        {
          "key": "google_ai_overview",
          "label": "Google AI Overview",
          "via": "dataforseo",
          "grounding": true,
          "note": "Zero-click AI answer block on Google SERPs; no official API — measured via the DataForSEO AI Mode SERP. A clicked citation passes to analytics as google/organic, so referral tracking under-counts it (see GSC's Generative-AI report)."
        },
        {
          "key": "google_ai_mode",
          "label": "Google AI Mode",
          "via": "dataforseo",
          "grounding": true,
          "note": "Google's conversational AI search; no official API — measured via DataForSEO."
        },
        {
          "key": "chatgpt_consumer",
          "label": "ChatGPT (consumer app)",
          "via": "dataforseo",
          "grounding": true,
          "note": "The consumer ChatGPT app (system prompt, tools, browsing defaults) differs from the API; measured via the DataForSEO LLM scraper, not our API adapter."
        },
        {
          "key": "bing_copilot_answers",
          "label": "Bing's Copilot answers",
          "via": "dataforseo",
          "grounding": true,
          "note": "Microsoft's AI answer block on Bing search results (Copilot Search); a separate search surface from the standalone Microsoft Copilot engine — no official public API, measured via the DataForSEO Bing SERP ai_overview element (the same modality already used for Google AI Overview)."
        },
        {
          "key": "copilot_workiq",
          "label": "Microsoft Copilot (Work IQ)",
          "via": "workiq",
          "grounding": true,
          "note": "Microsoft 365 Copilot's synthesized answer + citations via the Work IQ Chat API. TENANT-SCOPED and therefore DISQUALIFIED as a brand-visibility measurement source (X43) - named here so the surface stays describable, never measured."
        }
      ],
      "captured_at_utc": "2026-08-07T22:09:32+00:00"
    },
    "detection": "A product is counted as 'recommended' when its name or a known alias is mentioned (case-insensitive, word-boundary aware) in the answer. Citations are counted when the product's own domain appears in the answer's source links. Detection is heuristic — a mention is not always a positive endorsement.",
    "mode": "live",
    "is_illustrative": false
  },
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    "n_prompts": 10,
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      "AWS API Gateway",
      "Apigee",
      "Azure API Management",
      "Gravitee",
      "Kong",
      "KrakenD",
      "MuleSoft",
      "Postman",
      "Tyk",
      "Zuplo"
    ],
    "brand_universe_hash": "b9c0ae3d1a8e7397",
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      "appearance_rate",
      "citation_rate"
    ],
    "frozen_before_run": true,
    "mode": "live",
    "note": "Prompt set + brand universe + metrics were pre-registered (fixed) before this run; the published leaderboard is drawn only from this universe — no post-hoc cherry-picking."
  },
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    "policy": "exclude_own_clients",
    "applies": true,
    "client_domains_checked": 0,
    "excluded": [],
    "disclosure": "Clear Cited excludes its own clients from this public ranked Index to avoid a conflict of interest. Excluded brands may still be measured, but are not ranked here; the policy is disclosed rather than the exclusion hidden."
  },
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
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    "What's the best API gateway for a Series A startup in 2026?",
    "Best API management platform for a small engineering team?",
    "What API platform should we use for a Kubernetes microservices stack?",
    "Most cost-effective API gateway for a high-traffic SaaS?",
    "Best API platform for a team already on AWS?",
    "Kong vs Apigee for an enterprise API program?",
    "Postman vs Tyk for API design and testing?",
    "What's a good MuleSoft alternative for a budget-conscious startup?",
    "Best API gateway for rate limiting and developer portals?",
    "Which API management platform do platform engineering teams recommend?"
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      "domain": "konghq.com"
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      "domain": "cloud.google.com"
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    },
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      "domain": "azure.microsoft.com"
    },
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      "name": "MuleSoft",
      "domain": "mulesoft.com"
    },
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      "name": "Tyk",
      "domain": "tyk.io"
    },
    {
      "name": "Gravitee",
      "domain": "gravitee.io"
    },
    {
      "name": "KrakenD",
      "domain": "krakend.io"
    },
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      "name": "Zuplo",
      "domain": "zuplo.com"
    }
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  "last_updated": "2026-08-07",
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