⚡ API Gateways

An API gateway is a software layer that acts as a single entry point between clients and backend services, receiving API requests and forwarding them to the appropriate internal services.

API gateways typically handle request routing, load balancing, and authentication and authorization, provide rate limiting, response caching, and protocol translation, and collect metrics, logs, and distributed traces for observability.

According to our research, API gateways are detected on 0.4% of all websites.
83.4% of these sites use only one API gateway, 16.5% use two.

Statistics based on 3.9M+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading API gateways in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Envoy, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 87.9% share.
It is followed by Istio with 16.4% and Amazon API Gateway with 4.1%.

Envoy 87.9%
Istio 16.4%
Amazon API Gateway 4.1%
Kong Gateway 3.8%
Ngrok 3.3%
Apache APISIX 0.9%
Traefik 0.2%
KrakenD 0.006%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of gateways that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Ngrok is #1 in Indonesia ^(-4)
Kong Gateway is #2 in Germany ^(-2)
Amazon API Gateway is #2 in the Netherlands ^(-1)
Apache APISIX is #4 in China ^(-2)

✨ Best API Gateways

Below is a more detailed list of 8 API gateways we detect, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Envoy San Francisco, California, United States A high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures. FreeOpen source	87.9%
2	Istio San Francisco, California, United States An open-source service mesh that secures, connects, and monitors services in Kubernetes, virtual machines, and multi-cloud environments. FreeOpen source	16.4%
⏳	Amazon API Gateway Seattle, Washington, United States A fully managed AWS service that acts as an entry point for applications to access backend services such as Lambda functions, EC2 workloads, or any HTTP endpoint. Free tier$$$	4.1%
4	Kong Gateway San Francisco, California, United States An API gateway that manages, secures, and routes API traffic using a cloud-native, platform-agnostic architecture. FreeOpen source$105+/month	3.8%
5	Ngrok San Francisco, California, United States A globally distributed reverse proxy platform that creates encrypted tunnels and consolidates load balancing, API gateway, and firewall capabilities for applications, APIs, and network services. Free$10+/month	3.3%
⏳	Apache APISIX Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source, cloud-native API gateway built on Nginx and LuaJIT. FreeOpen source	0.9%
⏳	Traefik Lyon, France An open-source reverse proxy and ingress controller that routes traffic to services and APIs across containerized, virtual machine, and serverless environments. FreeOpen source$30,000+/month	0.2%
⏳	KrakenD Barcelona, Spain An open-source, high-performance, stateless API gateway written in Go . FreeOpen source$1,099/month	0.006%

👉 See Also

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,976,354 websites.
We currently track the presence of 8 API gateways across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on October 30, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.