Kong Gateway
Kong Gateway is an API gateway that manages, secures, and routes API traffic using a cloud-native, platform-agnostic architecture.
It provides request proxying, routing, load balancing, health checks, authentication, rate limiting, and observability features, and can be extended through plugins written in 
Lua, 
Go, or 
JavaScript.
According to our data, Kong Gateway is the 4th most popular API gateway on the web.
It has 3.8% of the API gateway market share and is detected on 0.02% of all websites.
It is especially popular in Germany, appearing on 0.04% of all websites in the country.
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Kong Gateway is available in both free and paid versions.
π Rankings and Market Share
- API Gateways
- Rank: 4
- Market share: 3.8%
- Load Balancers
- Rank: 19
- Market share: 0.2%
π Kong Gateway Awards
- π₯ Second most popular in Germany in the API Gateways category.
- π₯ Third most popular in China in the API Gateways category.
- β 9th most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
- π₯ 13rd most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
β‘ Sites Using Kong Gateway
We have data on 655 websites that use Kong Gateway technology. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Kong Gateway is fool.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #1,626 | English | ||
| 2 | #1,913 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| 3 | #2,178 | English | ||
| 4 | #2,440 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| 5 | #2,541 | China | English | |
| 6 | #2,831 | Hungary | Hungarian | |
| 7 | #3,086 | Netherlands | Dutch | |
| 8 | #3,239 | Belarus | Russian | |
| 9 | #3,636 | France | French | |
| 10 | #4,234 | English | ||
| 11 | #6,016 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| 12 | #7,844 | English | ||
| 13 | #7,922 | Taiwan | Chinese | |
| 14 | huaweicloud.com | #8,146 | China | Chinese |
| 15 | #8,975 | Spain | Catalan | |
| 16 | #9,508 | Poland | Polish | |
| 17 | #10,048 | Belgium | Dutch | |
| 18 | #12,228 | Thailand | Thai | |
| 19 | #14,322 | Ireland | English | |
| 20 | #15,372 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese |
π Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Kong Gateway:
- are located in Germany
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Kong Gateway are from Germany, China, and the United States.
- Germany 18%
- China 14%
- United States 13.2%
- Russia 7.1%
- Brazil 5.9%
- Vietnam 3.6%
- Thailand 3.3%
- France 2.9%
- India 2.3%
- Other 29.7%
Most Kong Gateway users speak English, German, or Chinese.
- English 45.9%
- German 14.8%
- Chinese 10.1%
- Russian 6%
- Portuguese 5.2%
- Spanish 2.7%
- Vietnamese 2.4%
- Thai 2.2%
- French 1.9%
- Other 8.8%
Kong Gateway technology is especially popular on .com, .de, and .ru top-level domains.
- .com 41.8%
- .de 11.3%
- .ru 5%
- .com.br 3.8%
- .org 3.2%
- .net 2%
- .cn 2%
- .io 1.4%
- .vn 1.2%
- Other 28.3%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Kong Gateway include business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising.
- Business 18%
- Online Shopping 13.8%
- Marketing/Merchandising 12.6%
- Internet Services 5.4%
- Fashion/Beauty 5.4%
- Blogs/Wiki 4.2%
- Entertainment 3.6%
- Real Estate 3.6%
- Travel 3.6%
- Other 29.8%
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π¬ Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Kong Gateway from?
Kong Gateway is from San Francisco, California, United States.
Does Kong Gateway offer a free plan?
Yes, there is a free version with limited functionality.
What is the starting price of Kong Gateway?
The pricing for Kong Gateway starts at $105 per month.
Which country uses Kong Gateway the most?
The majority of Kong Gateway users are from Germany.
Who uses Kong Gateway?
According to our data, Kong Gateway is used on hundreds of sites, including such established ones as fool.com,
sympla.com.br, and
britishairways.com.
Do academic institutions use Kong Gateway?
Yes. The most prominent of these is upc.edu.
How does Kong Gateway stack up against the competition?
Kong Gateway is one of the most popular API gateways, second only to 
Envoy, 
Istio, and 
Amazon API Gateway.
π See Also
- β¨ Related technologies
- Go, JavaScript, Lua
ποΈ 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.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.