⚡ API Gateways in Spain

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.

Spain is a Southern European country with a population of around 48 million people.

According to our research, API gateways are detected on 0.4% of websites from Spain.

Statistics based on 104K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Envoy, which dominates the market with a substantial 94.1% share.
It is followed by Istio with 32.9% and Amazon API Gateway with 2.5%.

Envoy 94.1%
Istio 32.9%
Amazon API Gateway 2.5%
Kong Gateway 1.4%
Ngrok 1.1%
Apache APISIX 0.5%
Traefik 0.5%

✨ Best API Gateways

Below is a more detailed list of 7 API gateways used on sites from Spain, 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	94.1%
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	32.9%
⏳	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$$$	2.5%
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	1.4%
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	1.1%
⏳	Apache APISIX Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source, cloud-native API gateway built on Nginx and LuaJIT. FreeOpen source	0.5%
⏳	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	0.5%

👉 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 104,960 websites from Spain.
We currently track the presence of 8 API gateways across the web.
Of these, 7 were detected on websites from Spain.
Statistics were last calculated on October 30, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.