🆚 Kong Gateway vs. Ngrok
- 📈 Kong Gateway is slightly more popular than Ngrok.
- 🌍 Kong Gateway is more popular in Germany, China, and Russia.
- 🌎 Ngrok is more popular in the United States, Indonesia, and India.
Kong Gateway
NgrokType
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 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.
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Pricing
(5GB transfer, 100K HTTP/S reqs) $10/month
(5GB+ transfer, 100K+ HTTP/S reqs) $20+/month
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 9th most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in India in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 18th 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 3,816,780 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.