🆚 Kong Gateway vs. Ngrok

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Load balancer
Tool

About

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.

Ngrok is a globally distributed reverse proxy that secures, protects and accelerates your applications and network services, no matter where you run them.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Open source
Kong Konnect$105+/month

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #16
Tools › Rank #27
Tools › Rank #31

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Kong Gateway load balancer is 1.6 times more popular than Ngrok.
Total websites

Market share

Tools

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Kong Gateway is more popular in the United States, Germany, and China, while Ngrok is more popular in India, the United Kingdom, and Indonesia.
United States
Germany
India
China
Brazil
Russia
United Kingdom
Indonesia
Australia
Thailand

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Kong Gateway is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and travel, while Ngrok is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and sports sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Finance/Banking
Blogs/Wiki
Real Estate

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#2,052
#2,241
#2,268
#2,615
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Rank
#9,363
#15,244
#28,326
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