🆚 Apache APISIX vs. Kong Gateway
Apache APISIX
Kong GatewayType
About
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.
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.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the API Gateways category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the API Gateways category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in China in the API Gateways category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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. However, data for Apache APISIX is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.