🆚 Istio vs. Ngrok
- 📈 Istio is five times more popular than Ngrok.
- 🌎 Istio is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
- 🌍 Ngrok is more popular in Indonesia, Uruguay, and Lebanon.
Istio
NgrokType
About
Istio is an open-source service mesh that secures, connects, and monitors services in 
Kubernetes, virtual machines, and multi-cloud environments.
It can run with 
Envoy proxies injected into each service or in a proxy-free ambient mode, and provides canary releases, load balancing, circuit breakers, mutual TLS authentication, and observability through metrics, logs, and distributed traces for Prometheus and 
Grafana.
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
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the API Gateways category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the API Gateways category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the API Gateways category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the API Gateways category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the API Gateways category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the API Gateways category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in India in the API Gateways category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the API Gateways category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in India 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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.