🆚 Kong Gateway vs. Varnish

📈 Varnish is much more popular than Kong Gateway.
🌍 Varnish is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Kong Gateway is particularly popular in Germany.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Kong Gateway

Varnish

Type

Load balancer

Caching solution

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.

Varnish Cache is an open-source HTTP accelerator and reverse caching proxy that caches content from web servers to reduce load times, and supports native TLS termination and Kubernetes deployments.

It uses the VCL configuration language compiled to native C code, serves cached responses in three system calls, provides official container images and a Helm chart for Kubernetes, outputs structured JSON logs, and supports VMOD extension modules.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Stockholm, Sweden

Website

konghq.com #57,179

varnish-cache.org #547,741

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Open source

Kong Konnect $105+/month

Free version ✔️ Open source

Varnish Enterprise Custom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Varnish caching solution is 110 times more popular than Kong Gateway.

Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Varnish is more popular than Kong Gateway in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

France

Germany

Denmark

Netherlands

Sweden

Norway

Belgium

Italy

Awards

⭐ 9th most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Varnish is more popular than Kong Gateway in all market segments.

Business

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

General News

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Sports

Travel

Internet Services

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#2,052

#2,061

#2,241

#2,615

#3,228

Name

Rank

#42

#44

#45

#52

#53