17.8
ngrok is a cloud networking platform for securing, transforming, and routing traffic to services wherever they run.
Free planWebAPILinux
Best Kubernetes Ingress Controllers in 2026
Managing incoming traffic to Kubernetes services means weighing routing choices alongside security controls. Compare the ingress API model and deployment model, then consider canary routing, rate limiting, auth policies, TLS automation, and web application firewall support. Free-plan availability and paid-from pricing add practical cost context. ngrok, Traefik Proxy, and agentgateway are among the entries to…
27.7
Higress is an open-source AI-native API gateway built on Istio and Envoy for governing LLM APIs, AI agents, MCP servers, and cloud-native traffic.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
37.7
Traefik Proxy is an open-source reverse proxy and ingress controller for deploying services and APIs.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
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agentgateway
Agentgateway is a free, open-source HTTP and gRPC gateway for routing, securing, observing, and governing traffic involving services, LLMs, MCP, and…
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxmacOS7.5Free plan - 5
Kusk Gateway
Kusk Gateway is a Kubernetes API gateway based on Envoy, with native OpenAPI support.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxmacOS7.5Free plan - 6
BFE Ingress Controller
BFE Ingress Controller is a free, open-source Layer 7 load balancer derived from Baidu’s proprietary Baidu Front End.
Free planOpen sourceAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted7.2Free plan - 7
LiteSpeed Ingress Controller
LiteSpeed Ingress Controller is the Kubernetes ingress component of LiteSpeed Web ADC, a software HTTP load balancer and application delivery controller.
WebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.6From $715 a year - 8
Envoy Gateway
Envoy Gateway is an open-source application gateway that manages Envoy Proxy in standalone or Kubernetes-based deployments.
Free planAPISelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 9
Airlock Microgateway
Free planAPISelf-hosted5.9Free plan - 10
NGINX Gateway Fabric
NGINX Gateway Fabric is a self-hosted Kubernetes implementation of the Gateway API, using NGINX as its data plane for load balancing, reverse…
Free planLinuxSelf-hosted5.9Free plan - 11
Skipper
Skipper is a free, open-source HTTP router and reverse proxy for composing services, including Kubernetes Ingress deployments.
LinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows5.9 - 12
Apache APISIX
Apache APISIX is an open-source gateway for routing, securing, and managing traffic to APIs, microservices, and LLM workloads.
APILinuxSelf-hosted5.8 - 13
F5 BIG-IP Container Ingress Services
F5 BIG-IP Container Ingress Services (CIS) connects Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift environments to F5 BIG-IP, updating network configuration as…
Free planAPISelf-hosted5.8Free plan - 14
Contour
Contour is an open-source, self-hosted Kubernetes ingress controller that provides the control plane for Envoy, the edge and service proxy.
Free planSelf-hosted5.7Free plan - 15
HAProxy Ingress
HAProxy Ingress is a free, self-hosted controller that configures HAProxy to route external requests to applications in a Kubernetes cluster.
Free planLinuxSelf-hosted5.7Free plan - 16
NGINX Ingress Controller
NGINX Ingress Controller is self-hosted software for routing Kubernetes traffic and balancing WebSocket, gRPC, TCP, and UDP applications.
Free planSelf-hosted5.7Free plan - 17
A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector
A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC) monitors Kubernetes application lifecycles and updates an external Thunder ADC load balancer to direct traffic to applications.
LinuxSelf-hosted5.4 - 18
N42 Gateway
N42 Gateway is a free, open-source controller for routing external requests to applications inside a Kubernetes cluster.
LinuxSelf-hosted5.4 - 19
NetScaler Ingress Controller
NetScaler Ingress Controller configures NetScaler appliances from Kubernetes Ingress rules and routes traffic into Kubernetes clusters.
Self-hosted5.4 - 20
HAProxy Enterprise
HAProxy Enterprise distributes incoming traffic among servers and checks server health, rerouting requests when a server begins to fail.
APILinuxSelf-hosted5.3 - 21
OpenNJet Ingress Controller
OpenNJet Ingress Controller, also called OpenNJet KIC, is a free, Apache-2.0 Kubernetes Ingress Controller for self-hosted deployments.
Self-hosted5.3 - 22
Caddy Gateway
Caddy Gateway is a work-in-progress Kubernetes Gateway API implementation that uses Caddy as its web server.
APILinuxSelf-hosted5.1 - 23
kgateway
kgateway is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller and API gateway control plane.
LinuxSelf-hosted5.1 - 24
FortiWeb
Web4.9 - 25
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