ngrok
7.8#1 in kubernetes ingress controllersFrom $10 a monthFree planWebAPILinuxmacOS
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Traefik Proxy
7.7#3 in reverse proxy softwareFree planFree planWebAPILinuxmacOS
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| Fact | ngrok | Traefik Proxy |
|---|---|---|
| Company facts | ngrok was founded in 2015, is based in San Francisco and is listed by Crunchbase at 51–100 employees. | LinkedIn lists Traefik Labs as privately held, founded in 2016, headquartered in San Francisco with 11–50 employees and an additional Lyon location. |
| Documentation depth | The documentation includes quickstarts, conceptual guides, examples, Traffic Policy recipes and API reference pages. | Documentation includes personas, core concepts, getting-started guides, provider configuration, API/dashboard reference and product comparison material. |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Lyon, France and San Francisco, USA |
| Integrations | Official documentation lists SDKs for Python, Go, Node and Rust and integrations including Okta SSO, Microsoft Entra ID and Datadog. | The project identifies Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Consul, Etcd, Rancher and Amazon ECS among its supported infrastructure integrations. |
| Licence | The hosted ngrok service is proprietary under its terms, while several official SDK, Terraform and operator repositories are MIT licensed. | The Traefik source repository is distributed under the MIT License. |
| Observability | The platform logs configuration changes, authentication events and API calls and can stream events to SIEM systems. | Proxy includes real-time logs, access logs, metrics and distributed tracing. |
| Protocols | ngrok supports HTTP, TLS, and TCP, including WebSockets, gRPC, SSH, Postgres, MQTT, and Minecraft traffic. | Traefik Proxy supports WebSockets, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, TCP, UDP and gRPC traffic. |
| Public API | The API reference covers endpoints, domains, certificates, Traffic Policy, tunnels, observability, IAM, secrets and Kubernetes operators. | The API exposes read endpoints for routers, services, middlewares, entrypoints, configuration data, health information and version details. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.2 out of 5 from 15 reviews | 4.6 out of 5 from 35 reviews |
| Rating on TrustRadius | 0 out of 10 from 0 reviews | 7 out of 10 from 6 reviews |
ngrok plans
- FreeFree
- Hobbyist$10 a month
- Pay-as-you-go$20 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
Traefik Proxy plans
- Traefik ProxyFree
- Traefik Proxy Open SourceFree
- Traefik Hub API GatewayPriced on request
- Traefik Hub API ManagementPriced on request
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 Traefik Proxy if…
Traefik Proxy suits teams deploying services or APIs across supported container platforms, Kubernetes distributions, virtual machines or bare metal. It is also relevant for operators seeking dynamic routing and traffic controls in a self-hosted proxy.