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What both publish
| Fact | ngrok | Pomerium |
|---|---|---|
| Audience | ngrok describes its Free and Hobbyist plans for developers, solo developers, home labs, and game servers, and Pay-as-you-go for teams shipping production traffic. | Businesses from startups to Global Fortune 2000 companies rely on Pomerium for access control. |
| Documentation depth | The documentation includes quickstarts, conceptual guides, examples, Traffic Policy recipes and API reference pages. | Documentation includes fundamentals courses, deployment guides, configuration reference, API reference, integrations and troubleshooting material. |
| Encryption | ngrok encrypts databases, filesystems, and data warehousing at rest, and agent-to-edge connections use TLS 1.2 or higher. | Sensitive databroker data, including session, user, directory, and service-secret data, is encrypted at rest. |
| Founded | 2015 | Pomerium's company history records its founding in 2019 by Bobby, who wrote the original code. |
| Funding | ngrok says it raised a $50 million Series A from Lightspeed and Coatue in 2022. | Axios reported that Pomerium raised a $13.75 million Series A led by Benchmark with Bain Capital, Haystack, SNR and Oleg Rogynskyy participating. |
| Integrations | Official documentation lists SDKs for Python, Go, Node and Rust and integrations including Okta SSO, Microsoft Entra ID and Datadog. | Listed integrations include Grafana, Kubernetes, Okta, Cloud Run, Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine, FleetDM, BambooHR, Auth0, Azure Active Directory, GitHub, GitLab, Google Workspace, OneLogin, OpenID Connect, and Ping Identity. |
| Product | ngrok is an all-in-one cloud networking platform that secures, transforms, and routes traffic to services wherever they run. | Pomerium is an open-source identity-aware proxy built around BeyondCorp and zero-trust principles. |
ngrok plans
- FreeFree
- Hobbyist$10 a month
- Pay-as-you-go$20 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
Pomerium plans
- Personal FreeFree
- Business$7 a month
- Zero PersonalFree
- Zero Business$7 a month
- Zero Business (annual)$7 a month
- Zero Business (monthly)$9 a month
Pick ngrok if…
The Free and Hobbyist plans are described for developers, solo developers, home labs, and game servers. Pay-as-you-go is presented for teams shipping production traffic.
Pick Pomerium if…
Pomerium suits businesses that need to control browser access to internal applications and services based on identity, device state, and request context. It offers a free plan for up to 10 users and a Business plan for larger listed limits.