🆚 Apache APISIX vs. Envoy

Apache APISIX is an open-source, cloud-native API gateway built on Nginx and LuaJIT.

It provides load balancing, dynamic upstreams, canary releases, circuit breaking, and traffic splitting, applies configuration changes through etcd without restarts, and includes over 100 plugins for authentication, traffic control, and observability.

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Envoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures.

It provides advanced L4/L7 load balancing, HTTP/2 and gRPC proxying, service discovery integration, observability with distributed tracing and rich metrics, and dynamic configuration via xDS APIs.

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Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the API Gateways category.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the API Gateways category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the API Gateways category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the API Gateways category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the API Gateways category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the API Gateways category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Apache APISIX technology profile
• Apache Software Foundation company profile

• Envoy technology profile
• Linux Foundation company profile