🆚 Kong Gateway vs. Postman

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.

Postman is a cloud-based collaboration platform for API development that allows users to build, test, design, modify, and document APIs.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Open source
Kong Konnect$105+/month
Free version ✔️Up to 3 collaborators
Basic$19/user/month
Professional$39/user/month
Enterprise$588/user/year

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #16
Tools › Rank #27
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Build Tools › Rank #12

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Kong Gateway load balancer is 2.5 times more popular than Postman.
Total websites

Market share

Tools

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Kong Gateway is more popular in Germany, the United States, and China, while Postman is more popular in Vietnam, Australia, and Nigeria.
Germany
United States
China
Brazil
Russia
United Kingdom
India
Vietnam
Thailand
Singapore

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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