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