🆚 Envoy vs. KrakenD
Envoy
KrakenDType
About
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.
KrakenD is an open-source, high-performance, stateless API gateway written in 
Go .
It aggregates responses from multiple microservices into a single endpoint, provides rate limiting, circuit breaking, traffic shadowing, and bot detection, supports 
JWT, 
OAuth2, 
OpenID, and mTLS authentication, and offers unified LLM interfaces for 
OpenAI, Anthropic, and 
Gemini.
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥇 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.
Popularity by domain category
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Linux Foundation company profile🗃️ 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 KrakenD is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.