⚡ API Gateways in Taiwan

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.

Taiwan is an East Asian island country with a population of around 23.6 million people.

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

Statistics based on 16K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Envoy, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 80.3% share.
It is followed by Istio with 16.4% and Kong Gateway with 14.8%.

Envoy 80.3%
Istio 16.4%
Kong Gateway 14.8%
Amazon API Gateway 4.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Kong Gateway ^(-1)

✨ Best API Gateways

Below is a more detailed list of 4 API gateways used on sites from Taiwan, 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	80.3%
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%
3	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	14.8%
⏳	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$$$	4.9%

👉 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 16,676 websites from Taiwan.
We currently track the presence of 8 API gateways across the web.
Of these, 4 were detected on websites from Taiwan.
Statistics were last calculated on October 30, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.