⚡ API Gateways in the United Kingdom

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.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

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

Statistics based on 188K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top API gateways in the United Kingdom 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 20.6% and Amazon API Gateway with 6.3%.

Envoy 87.9%
Istio 20.6%
Amazon API Gateway 6.3%
Ngrok 3.9%
Kong Gateway 1.6%
Apache APISIX 0.4%
Traefik 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

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✨ Best API Gateways

Below is a more detailed list of 7 API gateways used on sites from the United Kingdom, 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	20.6%
⏳	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$$$	6.3%
4	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	3.9%
5	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	1.6%
⏳	Apache APISIX Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source, cloud-native API gateway built on Nginx and LuaJIT. FreeOpen source	0.4%
⏳	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 188,902 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 8 API gateways across the web.
Of these, 7 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on October 30, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.