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Putting your APIs online shouldn't be hard.
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So we made it easy. ngrok is the flexible API gateway for instant, secure connectivity anywhere—public or private. Ditch the infrastructure headaches and enjoy building software again.
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API Gateways Are More Than Just Traffic Managers
Learn how to set up ngrok's common pattern of API gateway primitives and enable advanced functionality, like geoblocking and header manipulation.
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**ngrok isn’t just for development.**
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Thousands rely on it daily to instantly serve critical applications and APIs across clouds, on-prem, and customer or partner networks—without the headache of complex infrastructure.
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Site-to-site connectivity
Never ask customers to open ports on the firewall. Access apps and APIs securely in your customers’ environments without site-to-site VPNs, VPC peering or other complex networking.
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API Gateway
Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.
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Device Gateway
Standardize connectivity across your fleet of IoT devices running in external networks. No need to struggle with custom protocols.
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Kubernetes Operator
Simplify ingress with the Kubernetes Operator, using Ingress Controller or Gateway API, by offloading traffic management and security to ngrok’s global network.
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Global Load Balancer
Ensure high performance and availability by routing traffic to the nearest Point of Presence (PoP) with preconfigured global load balancer.
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Identity-Aware Proxy
Protect your applications and APIs from unauthorized access without writing extra code.
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Development made easy
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Bring secure connectivity to apps and APIs in localhost and dev/test environments with just one command or function call.
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Webhook Testing
Get a secure public URL for your local web server, then trigger webhooks. Inspect the traffic to your server and replay webhook requests to iterate quickly while staying in context.
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Developer Preview
Demo a website or an app running on your local machine to a client or stakeholder instantly and securely, without deploying to a staging environment.
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Pay only for what you use
Ditch high upfront costs and pay only for active endpoints and successful API calls. Scale your costs in line with your API traffic growth.
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How it works
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ngrok operates a global network where it accepts traffic to your upstream services from clients.
Clients connect to your endpoints (URLs). You configure policies such as authentication or transformation. Unlike traditional proxies, ngrok doesn't rely on IP forwarding. Instead, you run a lightweight agent that connects securely to ngrok's network. Traffic flows through this secure connection to your service.
With ngrok, we get comprehensive security with a full scope of functionality for all of our use cases.
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Industry leaders rely on ngrok
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Trusted and secure platform with massive scale
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Working with ngrok means working with a vetted, secure solution.
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1. Over
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2. devs use ngrok
1. Over 80%
of Cloud 100
2. companies use ngrok
1. Over
100 trillion
2. total requests served
1. Over 1600
AIÂ innovators
2. deliver AI/ML apps with ngrok
1. 38,000+
2. companies trust ngrok
Why ngrok?
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Built for developers.
Unlock the power of SaaS. Built to deliver applications and APIs with 
zero networking configuration and zero hardware. Run your apps anywhere 
and bring them online in just one line.
Networking shouldn’t feel like a boss fight.
No more ports, IPs, DNS, or firewall configurations. Just URLs and identities.
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Online in one line
One command, you're online. Seriously, try for yourself.
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Auth, rate limits, redirects—ugh.
Had to do this once—hated it. Doing it for every API? No thanks. We built Traffic Policy so stuff like this take minutes, not days.
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Instant observability.
View live traffic happening on your APIs in real-time the second it goes online.
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CLI not your vibe? Use our SDKs.
Python, Rust, Go, Java, and JavaScript SDKs that you can use to embed ngrok directly into your app or API
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The ngrok platform
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Zero Trust
Add SSO, Mutual TLS, 
IP Policy, and webhook signature verification.
Any protocol
Native support for HTTP, TLS, and any TCP based protocol.
Observability
Log all traffic and account activity.
Global Network
Deliver fast and reliable services powered by our Points of Presence.
Load balancing
Route traffic to multiple backends for scale and fault tolerance.
Authorization
Protect services with OAuth, SAML and OIDC.
Instant domains
Use a ngrok domain with no setup or bring your own domain.
Encryption
Automatic certificates and an A+ SSL report card with no config.
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Developer Roundtable: Gateway API
In this episode of our Developer Roundtable series, we highlight our updated ngrok Kubernetes Operator that now supports the Kubernetes Gateway API spec.
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The latest from the ngrok blog
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Put your APIs online the easy and composable way
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Introducing Cloud Endpoints
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Four ways multicloud breaks you (and how API gateways help)
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How ngrok helps Sam develop and test LLM-powered RAG applications
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Introducing IP Intelligence to control unwanted traffic
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Protect services with a circuit breaker at your API gateway
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Get the latest updates on ngrok products and features
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