🆚 Kong Gateway vs. Traefik
Kong Gateway
TraefikType
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.
Traefik is an open-source reverse proxy and ingress controller that routes traffic to services and APIs across containerized, virtual machine, and serverless environments.
It automatically discovers services from 
Docker, 
Kubernetes, Consul, and 
Amazon EC2, supports the Kubernetes Gateway API and over 85 
Ingress NGINX annotations, and combines API, AI, and MCP gateways with multi-layer routing and service-level middleware.
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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
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the API Gateways category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in China in the API Gateways category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Germany 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 3,976,354 websites. However, data for Traefik is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.