Cortex vs RapidAPI

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

RapidAPI leads in AI visibility (77 vs 66)

Cortex

ChallengerDeveloper Tools & Platforms

Internal Developer Portals

Internal developer portal for service catalog and engineering ops. Founded 2019, SF (ex-Uber). $112M raised at $470M valuation. Y Combinator grad. Private.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
B66
Category Rank
#1 of 1
AI Consensus
60%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
64
Perplexity
58
Gemini
76

About

Cortex is an internal developer portal founded in 2019 by Anish Dhar (CEO, ex-Uber), Ganesh Datta, Nikhil Unni, and Aditya Subramanian, headquartered in San Francisco. Raised $112 million including a $60M growth round (August 2025) led by Scale Venture Partners at $470M valuation. YC graduate; investors include IVP, Sequoia, Tiger Global.

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RapidAPI

LeaderDeveloper Tools & Platforms

General

Largest API marketplace with 4M developers and thousands of API providers; unified discovery, testing, and management for public and enterprise internal APIs.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
B77
Category Rank
#4 of 1158
AI Consensus
49%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
82
Perplexity
83
Gemini
71

About

RapidAPI is the world's largest API marketplace and developer hub, providing a platform where developers discover, connect to, and manage thousands of public and private APIs through a unified interface. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, RapidAPI connects over 4 million developers with APIs from thousands of providers — weather data, financial data, social media, translation, geolocation, and every category of web service — through a single authentication layer and consistent SDK.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

66
Overall Score
77
#1
Category Rank
#4
60
AI Consensus
49
up
Trend
stable
64
ChatGPT
82
58
Perplexity
83
76
Gemini
71
69
Claude
68
67
Grok
88

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