Overview Leaderboard Methodology
Industry Report

API Management Suites

Comprehensive products combining gateway, developer portal, analytics, security, and lifecycle features to manage APIs at enterprise scale.

Brands tracked: 31
Brands analyzed: 31
Last updated: 2026-04-22
Model: OpenAI GPT-5
Prompts: 251
Total responses: 1,260
Top Brand Overall?
Kong
89/100

Highest overall AI Visibility Score in this industry.

LBA Leader?
Microsoft
97

Highest score on the LBA metric.

Authority Leader?
Kong
90

Highest score on the Authority metric.

TOM Leader?
Kong
86

Highest score on the TOM metric.

Kong is the default answer in AI responses for API Management Suites

When users ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini about API Management Suites, Kong is the brand that surfaces first - unprompted, consistently, and usually at the top of any list the model generates. Google is a close second, but the gap between them is meaningful. If you're competing in this space and you're not in the top handful, you're effectively invisible to AI-driven discovery.

Brand Leaderboard All 31 API Management Suites brands ranked

Ranked by overall AI Visibility Score (geometric mean of LBA, Authority, and TOM). Click any brand for the full report.

# Brand LBA Authority TOM Overall
1
Kong
konghq.com
 91
90
86
89
2
Google
google.com
 90
61
78
76
3
MuleSoft
mulesoft.com
 85
33
84
62
4
Tyk
tyk.io
 75
29
52
48
5
IBM
ibm.com
 82
22
52
45
6
Postman
postman.com
 87
6
52
29
7
WSO2
wso2.com
 75
9
32
27
8
Gravitee
gravitee.io
 70
8
6
15
9
3scale
3scale.net
 74
0
14
8
10
Microsoft
microsoft.com
 97
0
40
3
11
Amazon
amazon.com
 81
0
16
2
12
Boomi
boomi.com
 73
0
9
2
13
Stoplight
stoplight.io
 78
7
0
2
14
Axway
axway.com
 67
0
4
1
15
Swagger
swagger.io
 81
1
0
1
16
webMethods
webmethods.io
 66
0
1
1
17
API7.ai
api7.ai
 62
0
0
0
18
CA Service Desk Manager
broadcom.com
 48
0
0
0
19
DreamFactory
dreamfactory.com
 62
0
0
0
20
Fiorano
fiorano.com
 48
0
0
0
21
Gloo Gateway
solo.io
 70
0
0
0
22
Helix TeamHub
perforce.com
 3
0
0
0
23
KrakenD
krakend.io
 67
0
0
0
24
Mashery
mashery.com
 56
0
0
0
25
Nevatech
nevatech.com
 0
0
0
0
26
Oracle
oracle.com
 73
0
0
0
27
Red Hat OpenShift
redhat.com
 84
0
0
0
28
SAP
sap.com
 69
0
0
0
29
Sensedia
sensedia.com
 50
0
0
0
30
Torry Harris
torryharris.com
 39
0
0
0
31
Zuplo
zuplo.com
 46
0
0
0

How is this calculated? Methodology

Every brand in this leaderboard is scored against the same set of 251 shared API Management Suites prompts. The same prompts, same model, same iterations. So differences in scores reflect actual differences in AI visibility, not differences in measurement.

Overall AI Visibility Score
Geometric mean of LBA, Authority and TOM: (LBA × Authority × TOM)^(1/3). Geometric mean is used so that any single weak metric pulls the overall score down, rather than being masked by strength elsewhere.
Shared industry prompts
For Authority and TOM, all brands in the industry are scored against the same 251 category prompts (e.g. "best SEO tools for agencies"). This makes brand-to-brand comparisons valid - everyone faces identical inputs. LBA prompts are per-brand because they ask brand-specific questions.
Latent Brand Association (LBA)
5 brand probes + 1 control prompt, each run 5 times in recall mode (no web search). LBA = quality × meta × stability × share × recognition × 100. Read the full LBA methodology →
LLM Authority
50 organic category prompts (discovery, comparison, problem and transactional intents), each run once in recall mode and once in retrieval mode. Score = frequency × log-decayed prominence × intent weight, then 50/50 averaged across the two modes. Read the full Authority methodology →
Top of Mind (TOM)
15 high-volume discovery prompts (sourced from Keywords Everywhere search-volume data), each run 5 times in pure recall mode (no web). Score = frequency × (0.5 + 0.5 × log-prominence), volume-weighted. Read the full TOM methodology →