🆚 Google Cloud Load Balancer vs. Kong Gateway

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Google Cloud Load Balancer is much more popular than Kong Gateway.
🌍 Google Cloud Load Balancer is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Kong Gateway is particularly popular in Germany.

Google Cloud Load Balancer

Kong Gateway

Type

Load balancer

About

Google Cloud Load Balancer distributes user traffic across virtual machine instances in the same region.

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

Mountain View, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

cloud.google.com

konghq.com #57,179

Pricing

Free version ✔️Open source

Kong Konnect$105+/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Google Cloud Load Balancer is 77 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.

Google Cloud Load Balancer is more popular than Kong Gateway in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Germany

British Virgin Islands

Brazil

Canada

France

Australia

Italy

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in India in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Israel 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.

Google Cloud Load Balancer is more popular than Kong Gateway in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Sports

Travel

Blogs/Wiki

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#17

#22

#68

#86

#93

Name

Rank

#2,052

#2,061

#2,241

#2,268

#2,615