🆚 Application Request Routing vs. Kong Gateway
- 📈 Application Request Routing is much more popular than Kong Gateway.
- 🌎 Application Request Routing is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 Kong Gateway is more popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Application Request Routing
Kong GatewayType
Load balancer
Load balancer
About
Application Request Routing is a module for Internet Information Server (IIS) that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.
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.
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️ Open source
Kong Konnect $105+/month
Categories
Load Balancers › Rank #5
Load Balancers › Rank #18
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Application Request Routing load balancer is 30 times more popular than Kong Gateway.
Total websites
Market share
Load Balancers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Application Request Routing is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while Kong Gateway is more popular in Russia.
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Sweden
Australia
Norway
Brazil
Germany
Denmark
Canada
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Slovenia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Norway in the Load Balancers 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.
Application Request Routing is more popular than Kong Gateway in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Health
Finance/Banking
Software/Hardware
Travel
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
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 3,816,780 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.