Kong vs Nginx

Nginx is the more common of the two in our index: it runs on 11,567 websites against 19 for Kong, and 9 sites use both. Counts come from real scans, not vendor claims.

Kong: 19
Nginx: 11,567

Kong

Kong is an open-source API gateway and platform that acts as middleware between compute clients and the API-centric applications.

Indexed sites: 19
Share of Reverse proxies: 0%

Well-known sites using it

All 19 sites

Nginx

Nginx is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.

Indexed sites: 11,567
Share of Reverse proxies: 90%

Well-known sites using it

All 11,567 sites

Used together

9 sites run both Kong and Nginx. That is 47% of the sites using Kong, the smaller of the two.

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