🆚 Envoy vs. Ngrok
- 📈 Envoy is much more popular than Ngrok.
- 🌎 Envoy is more popular in the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Ngrok is more popular in Indonesia and Lebanon.
Envoy
NgrokType
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.
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
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Indonesia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in India in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States 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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- 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 3,718,585 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.