🆚 Google Front End vs. Ngrok
- 📈 Google Front End is much more popular than Ngrok.
- 🌎 Google Front End is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Sweden.
- 🌍 Ngrok is more popular in Indonesia, Qatar, and Lebanon.
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About
Google Front End (GFE) is Google's globally distributed reverse proxy that accepts client connections at the network edge and routes requests to Google services.
It provides TLS termination, request routing, load balancing, and protection against denial-of-service attacks, and is available only as the underlying infrastructure for 
Google Cloud Load Balancing and other Google services.
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.
Headquarters
Pricing
(5GB transfer, 100K HTTP/S reqs) $10/month
(5GB+ transfer, 100K+ HTTP/S reqs) $20+/month
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Taiwan in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Sweden in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Finland in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in France 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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🗃️ 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 3,718,585 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.