🆚 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 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Load balancer
Caching
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 web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Stockholm, Sweden
Pricing
Free version ✔️Open source
Kong Konnect$105+/month
Free version ✔️Open source
Varnish Pro$1,500+/year
Varnish EnterpriseCustom
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Varnish caching is 123 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
Sweden
Netherlands
Norway
Belgium
Italy
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.
- 🥇 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
General News
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Sports
Internet Services
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.