🆚 AWS Elastic Load Balancer vs. Kong Gateway

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 AWS Elastic Load Balancer is much more popular than Kong Gateway.
🌎 AWS Elastic Load Balancer is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Kong Gateway is more popular in Russia.

AWS Elastic Load Balancer

Type

Load balancer

Load balancer

About

AWS Elastic Load Balancer automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses.

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

Seattle, Washington, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

konghq.com #57,179

Pricing

Free version ✔️

$0.0225 per Application Load Balancer-hour

$0.008 per LCU-hour

Free version ✔️Open source

Kong Konnect$105+/month

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #3

Load Balancers › Rank #16

Tools › Rank #27

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

AWS Elastic Load Balancer is 75 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.

AWS Elastic Load Balancer is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, while Kong Gateway is more popular in Russia.

United States

Japan

United Kingdom

Germany

Australia

Brazil

India

France

Korea

Canada

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Ireland in the Load Balancers category.

⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
🔥 11st most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
🔥 11st most popular in Brazil in the Load Balancers category.
🔥 12nd most popular in China in the Tools category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

AWS Elastic Load Balancer is more popular than Kong Gateway in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Travel

Finance/Banking

Software/Hardware

General News

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

playstation.com

#130

shutterstock.com

#132

merriam-webster.com

#143

dmm.co.jp

#149

#152

Name

Rank

#2,052

#2,061

#2,241

#2,268

#2,615

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Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
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