🆚 Kong Gateway vs. Sōzu
Statistics for Sōzu are still being collected and do not yet reflect its full market share.
Kong Gateway
SōzuType
Load balancer
Load balancer
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.
Sōzu is an HTTP reverse proxy with runtime configurability and hot upgrades, built in 
Rust and used by 
Clever Cloud.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Nantes, France
Pricing
Free version ✔️ Open source
Kong Konnect $105+/month
Free ✔️ AGPL-3.0, open source
Categories
Load Balancers › Rank #17
Load Balancers › Rank n/a
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Total websites
Market share
Load Balancers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Germany
China
United States
Russia
Brazil
Vietnam
Thailand
France
India
Taiwan
Awards
- ⭐ 8th most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Fashion/Beauty
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Real Estate
Finance/Banking
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Name
Rank
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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 3,814,833 websites. However, data for Sōzu is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.