Envoy
Linux Foundation, San Francisco, California, United StatesEnvoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures.
It provides advanced L4/L7 load balancing, HTTP/2 and gRPC proxying, service discovery integration, observability with distributed tracing and rich metrics, and dynamic configuration via xDS APIs.
Envoy is also often used as the data plane of API gateways and 
Kubernetes ingress controllers such as 
Istio, Kgateway, Contour, and Envoy Gateway.
According to our data, Envoy is the 7th most popular load balancer on the web.
It has 5.5% of the load balancer market share and is detected on 0.4% of all websites.
It appears on 0.7% of all websites in the Netherlands, 0.6% in Brazil, and 0.6% in Canada.
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Envoy Users
Stack OverflowπΈ Pricing
Envoy is available for free.
π Rankings and Market Share
- Load Balancers
- Rank: 7
- Market share: 5.5%
- Caching
- Rank: 12
- Market share: 0.9%
- API Gateways
- Rank: 1
- Market share: 86.5%
π Envoy Awards
- π₯ Most popular in the United States in the API Gateways category.
- π₯ Most popular in the Netherlands in the API Gateways category.
- π₯ Most popular in the United Kingdom in the API Gateways category.
- π₯ Most popular in Germany in the API Gateways category.
- π₯ Most popular in Brazil in the API Gateways category.
- π₯ Most popular in Japan in the API Gateways category.
- π₯ Most popular in Canada in the API Gateways category.
- π₯ Most popular in Spain in the API Gateways category.
- π₯ Most popular in France in the API Gateways category.
- π₯ Most popular in Australia in the API Gateways category.
β‘ Sites Using Envoy
We have data on 15,095 websites that use the Envoy load balancer. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Envoy is 
pinterest.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinterest.com |
#15 | United States | English |
| 2 |  spotify.com |
#23 | Sweden | English |
| 3 |  godaddy.com |
#42 | United States | American English |
| 4 |  dropbox.com |
#55 | United States | English |
| 5 |  nytimes.com |
#56 | United States | English |
| 6 | #63 | United States | English | |
| 7 |  scribd.com |
#85 | United States | American English |
| 8 | #94 | United States | English | |
| 9 | #119 | Russia | Russian | |
| 10 | #137 | Czech Republic | Czech | |
| 11 |  snapchat.com |
#141 | United States | American English |
| 12 | #148 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| 13 |  ebay.com |
#151 | United States | American English |
| 14 |  yelp.com |
#158 | United States | American English |
| 15 |  walmart.com |
#185 | United States | American English |
| 16 |  dailymotion.com |
#226 | France | American English |
| 17 |  ok.ru |
#269 | Russia | English |
| 18 | #271 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 19 | #274 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 20 | #300 | United States | American English |
π Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Envoy:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Envoy are from the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
- United States 24.3%
- Netherlands 6.5%
- United Kingdom 5.5%
- Germany 4.5%
- Brazil 4.2%
- Japan 4%
- Canada 3.9%
- Spain 3.5%
- France 3%
- Other 40.6%
Most Envoy users speak English, Spanish, or German.
- English 61.1%
- Spanish 5.8%
- German 3.9%
- Dutch 3.9%
- Portuguese 3.7%
- Japanese 3.1%
- French 3%
- Chinese 1.8%
- Russian 1.7%
- Other 12%
The Envoy load balancer is especially popular on .com top-level domains.
- .com 46.5%
- .org 4.6%
- .nl 3.7%
- .com.br 2.6%
- .de 2.2%
- .net 1.8%
- .co.uk 1.8%
- .ca 1.6%
- .es 1.4%
- Other 33.8%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Envoy include business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising.
- Business 14.2%
- Online Shopping 13%
- Marketing/Merchandising 9.7%
- Travel 6.6%
- Internet Services 5.3%
- Finance/Banking 4.7%
- Entertainment 4.4%
- Education/Reference 4.2%
- General News 3.8%
- Other 34.1%
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π¬ Frequently Asked Questions
What is the company behind Envoy?
Envoy is owned by the Linux Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Can I use Envoy for free?
Yes, it is a free load balancer.
Moreover, it is an open-source solution, and you can access its source code on 
GitHub.
Which country uses Envoy the most?
The majority of Envoy users are from the United States.
Who uses Envoy?
According to our data, Envoy is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as pinterest.com, spotify.com, and godaddy.com.
Is Envoy used on government websites?
In total, we found Envoy on 16 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use Envoy?
Yes. Overall, we know of 51 academic websites in the United States that use Envoy.
How does Envoy compare to its competitors?
Envoy is a moderately popular load balancer, ranking ahead of 17 other load balancers we track.
π See Also
- β¨ Related technologies
- πΌ All technologies from Linux Foundation
ποΈ 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 4,009,087 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.