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kgateway vs ngrok

kgateway

kgateway.dev

ngrok

ngrok.com

Side by side

Figurekgatewayngrok
Price from—$10/mo
Free plan—Yes
Free trial—Yes
Open source——
Web—Yes
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
LinuxYesYes
API—Yes
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published14
Spec score · Kubernetes Ingress Controllers7.0 (#22)8.7 (#3)
Founded20182015
InstallationThe kgateway control plane installs into a Kubernetes cluster using Helm or Argo CD.Linux installation supports Apt, Snap and standalone binaries with no runtime dependencies.
IntegrationsDocumented integrations include Istio, AWS load balancers, Argo Rollouts, ExternalDNS, cert-manager, and OpenTelemetry.Official documentation lists SDKs for Python, Go, Node and Rust and integrations including Okta SSO, Microsoft Entra ID and Datadog.
ScaleKgateway supports deployments ranging from lightweight microgateways between services to centralized gateways handling billions of API calls.ngrok says 15.3 million developers have signed up for the platform.
SupportSolo offers free community support through its Gloo Community and public GitHub repository.Paid support options include Dedicated On-Call with an 8 business hour SLA, plus Slack or Teams and 24×7 paging add-ons.

Plans

kgateway

  • Solo Enterprise for kgatewayPriced on request

kgateway pricing →

ngrok

  • FreeFree
  • Hobbyist$10 a month
  • Pay-as-you-go$20 a month
  • EnterprisePriced on request

ngrok pricing →

In their own words

kgateway

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ngrok

ngrok is a cloud networking platform that secures, transforms, and routes traffic to services wherever they run. Its agent sends traffic through secure tunnels without requiring firewall changes. Traffic Policy uses CEL-based rules to route requests, authenticate them, apply rate limits or web application firewall controls, and reject them. Supported traffic includes HTTP, TLS, and TCP, including WebSockets, gRPC, SSH, Postgres, MQTT, and Minecraft. The Integrations Hub offers integrations and guides for areas such as SSO, databases, Kubernetes, OAuth, webhooks, and web servers. ngrok also verifies webhook signatures for more than 70 providers, including Stripe, GitHub, Twilio, Slack, and Shopify. The free plan includes $5 one-time usage, up to 3 online endpoints, up to 1GB data transfer, up to 20k HTTP/S requests, and one team member. Paid access starts at $10/mo. On Hobbyist, endpoints stop working when usage credit runs out, until the billing cycle ends and credit resets. ngrok lists region pinning across the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific, Australia, India, Japan, and South America.

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