Kong Gateway
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.
According to our data, Kong Gateway ranks 17th among the load balancers we track.
It has 0.2% of the load balancer market share and is detected on 0.02% of all websites.
- 🏠 Website
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- 🔗 Links
- 👨👩👦👦 Community
GitHub
Wikipedia
Stack Overflow💸 Pricing
Kong Gateway is available in both free and paid versions.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Load Balancers
- Rank: 17
- Market share: 0.2%
- Tools
- Rank: 32
- Market share: 0.1%
🏆 Kong Gateway Awards
- ⭐ 7th most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in China in the Tools category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Germany in the Tools category.
⚡ Sites Using Kong Gateway
We have data on 563 websites that use the Kong Gateway load balancer. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Kong Gateway is klook.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #2,052 | English | ||
| 2 | #2,061 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| 3 | #2,241 | China | English | |
| 4 | #2,615 | Hungary | Hungarian | |
| 5 | #3,228 | Belarus | Russian | |
| 6 | #3,299 | Netherlands | Dutch | |
| 7 | #3,463 | France | French | |
| 8 | #4,175 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| 9 | #5,879 | Singapore | English | |
| 10 | #6,245 | English | ||
| 11 | #6,392 | Taiwan | Chinese | |
| 12 | #7,405 | Poland | Polish | |
| 13 | #7,726 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| 14 | #7,820 | Thailand | Thai | |
| 15 | #8,362 | American English | ||
| 16 | #11,100 | Isle of Man | English | |
| 17 | #11,743 | United States | English | |
| 18 | #12,260 | Spain | Catalan | |
| 19 | #12,937 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| 20 | #17,461 | United States | English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Kong Gateway:
- are located in Germany
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Kong Gateway are from Germany, China, and the United States.
- Germany 17.1%
- China 13.3%
- United States 13.3%
- Russia 7.9%
- Brazil 7.4%
- Thailand 3.3%
- United Kingdom 3.1%
- India 2.6%
- Vietnam 2.2%
- Other 29.8%
Most Kong Gateway users speak English, German, or Chinese.
- English 46.7%
- German 13.7%
- Chinese 9.7%
- Portuguese 6.6%
- Russian 6.2%
- Spanish 3.1%
- Thai 2.2%
- French 1.6%
- Vietnamese 1.5%
- Other 8.7%
The Kong Gateway load balancer is especially popular on .com, .de, and .ru top-level domains.
- .com 41.4%
- .de 11%
- .ru 5.7%
- .com.br 4.6%
- .org 2.3%
- .net 2%
- .cn 2%
- .io 1.4%
- .pl 1.1%
- Other 28.5%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Kong Gateway include business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising.
- Business 17.8%
- Online Shopping 13.5%
- Marketing/Merchandising 10.4%
- Internet Services 5.5%
- Fashion/Beauty 5.5%
- Finance/Banking 4.9%
- Blogs/Wiki 4.3%
- Real Estate 4.3%
- Travel 3.7%
- Other 30.1%
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F5 BIG-IP💬 Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Kong Gateway's headquarters?
Kong Gateway is located in San Francisco, California, United States.
Does Kong Gateway offer a free plan?
Yes, there is a free version with limited functionality.
What is the starting price of Kong Gateway?
The pricing for Kong Gateway starts at $105 per month.
Which country uses Kong Gateway the most?
The majority of Kong Gateway users are from Germany.
Who uses Kong Gateway?
According to our data, Kong Gateway is used on hundreds of sites, including such established ones as klook.com,
ifood.com.br, and
dji.com.
Do academic institutions use Kong Gateway?
Yes. The most prominent of these is upc.edu.
👉 See Also
- ✨ Related technologies
Go, JavaScript, 
Lua
🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.