⚡ API Gateways in Germany

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.

Germany is a Central European country with a population of around 84 million people.

According to our research, API gateways are detected on 0.3% of websites from Germany.

Statistics based on 257K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Envoy, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 77.8% share.
It is followed by Kong Gateway with 13.7% and Istio with 13.5%.

Envoy 77.8%
Kong Gateway 13.7%
Istio 13.5%
Amazon API Gateway 4.7%
Ngrok 2.8%
Apache APISIX 1.2%
Traefik 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top gateways that are more popular in Germany than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. Kong Gateway ^(-2)

✨ Best API Gateways

Below is a more detailed list of 7 API gateways used on sites from Germany, 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	77.8%
2	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	13.7%
3	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	13.5%
⏳	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$$$	4.7%
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	2.8%
⏳	Apache APISIX Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source, cloud-native API gateway built on Nginx and LuaJIT. FreeOpen source	1.2%
⏳	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	0.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 API Gateways in other countries

🗃️ 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 257,657 websites from Germany.
We currently track the presence of 8 API gateways across the web.
Of these, 7 were detected on websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on October 30, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.