🆚 Kong Gateway vs. Scalar
- 📈 Kong Gateway is much more popular than Scalar.
- 🌍 Kong Gateway is more popular in all countries.
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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.
Scalar is an open-source platform for creating API documentation with an interactive playground, built around the OpenAPI standard.
It provides interactive documentation that doubles as a full-featured API client, a fully offline-first REST API client, a versioned API registry with 
Git sync, type-safe SDK generation for multiple languages, and extensive theming and customization options.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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.
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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GitBook🗃️ 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.