kgateway comparisons
kgateway is compared head-to-head with Traefik Proxy, NGINX Ingress Controller and Kong Ingress Controller and more: 7 head-to-heads in Kubernetes Ingress Controllers, each with the specs and prices we checked.
kgateway head-to-head
- kgateway vs Traefik Proxy
- kgateway vs NGINX Ingress Controller
- kgateway vs Kong Ingress Controller
- kgateway vs Contour
- kgateway vs HAProxy Ingress
- kgateway vs Apache APISIX
- kgateway vs Envoy Gateway
kgateway vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Ingress API model | TLS automation | Canary routing | Rate limiting | Web application firewall | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | kgateway | Yes | Free | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.8 |
| 1 | Traefik Proxy | Yes | Free | Yes | Yes | 9.3 | |||
| 2 | NGINX Ingress Controller | Yes | Ingress | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.2 | |
| 3 | Kong Ingress Controller | Yes | Free | Both | Yes | Yes | 9.1 | ||
| 4 | Contour | Yes | Free | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.0 | |
| 5 | HAProxy Ingress | Yes | Free | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.9 |
| 7 | Apache APISIX | Yes | Free | 8.7 | |||||
| 8 | Envoy Gateway | Yes | Free | 8.6 |
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