🆚 Kong Gateway vs. Postman
- 📈 Kong Gateway is twice as popular as Postman.
- 🌎 Kong Gateway is more popular in the United States, Germany, and China.
- 🌍 Postman is more popular in Vietnam, Australia, and Canada.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PostmanType
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
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
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 the United States, Germany, and China, while Postman is more popular in Vietnam, Australia, and Canada.
United States
Germany
China
Brazil
Russia
India
United Kingdom
Vietnam
Thailand
Singapore
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.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in the United States in the Build 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, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Postman is more commonly used on Internet services and interactive web applications 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.
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Grunt🗃️ 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.