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ngrok vs Redbird

ngrok

ngrok.com

Redbird

github.com

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FigurengrokRedbird
Price from$10/moFree
Free planYesYes
Free trialYes—
Open source——
WebYes—
WindowsYes—
macOSYes—
LinuxYesYes
APIYesYes
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published41
Spec score · Reverse Proxy Software9.1 (#1)7.5 (#18)
Load balancingEndpoint pooling load-balances traffic across multiple agents and can fail over to healthy backends.Registering multiple targets for the same hostname enables round-robin load balancing.
Productngrok is an all-in-one cloud networking platform that secures, transforms, and routes traffic to services wherever they run.Redbird describes itself as a modern reverse proxy for Node.

Plans

ngrok

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

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Redbird

  • RedbirdFree

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In their own words

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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Redbird

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