🆚 Kong Gateway vs. Ngrok
- 📈 Kong Gateway is noticeably more popular than Ngrok.
- 🌎 Kong Gateway is more popular in the United States, Germany, and China.
- 🌍 Ngrok is more popular in India, the United Kingdom, and Indonesia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this 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
Pricing
Free version ✔️Open source
Kong Konnect$105+/month
Categories
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
Thailand
Australia
Awards
- ⭐ 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.
- 🔥 15th most popular in India in the Tools category.
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 Internet services, while Ngrok is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and sports sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Travel
Software/Hardware
Finance/Banking
Blogs/Wiki
Real Estate
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Git🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.