🆚 HAProxy vs. Kong Gateway

Type

Load balancer
Load balancer

About

HAProxy is an open-source load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

It provides multiple load-balancing algorithms, TLS/SSL termination and certificate management, Lua scripting, a runtime API, hitless reloads, and built-in metrics for Prometheus.

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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

Newton, Massachusetts, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Community edition, open source
HAProxy Enterprise Custom
Free version ✔️ Open source
Kong Konnect $105+/month

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #14
Load Balancers › Rank #17
Caching › Rank #21

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The HAProxy load balancer is 1.9 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.

HAProxy is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Kong Gateway is more popular in China, Russia, and Brazil.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Canada
France
China
Russia
Brazil
Spain
Poland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

HAProxy is more popular among sites focused on business, software and hardware, and education and reference, while Kong Gateway is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, health, and finance and banking sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Software/Hardware
Education/Reference
Real Estate
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
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Name
Rank
#2,052
#2,241
#2,615
#3,228
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See also

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