🆚 Apache APISIX vs. Ngrok
Apache APISIX
NgrokType
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.
Ngrok is 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.
It supports 
HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, and TLS traffic, 
OAuth, OIDC, and 
JWT authentication, rate limiting, IP restrictions, webhook verification, endpoint load balancing, a 
Kubernetes Ingress Operator, Agent SDKs, and real-time traffic inspection with request replay.
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Pricing
(5GB transfer, 100K HTTP/S reqs) $10/month
(5GB+ transfer, 100K+ HTTP/S reqs) $20+/month
Categories
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the API Gateways category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in India in the API Gateways category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the API Gateways category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in India 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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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.