---
name: ngrok
domain: ngrok.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure
descGrounded: 0.87
---

# ngrok

A developer infrastructure product that routes and secures traffic to apps, APIs, and AI models.

**Route:** surfaced by the AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure lane's de-branded queries → competitor to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Sells the same traffic-routing, secure-tunneling, and AI-gateway capabilities to the same frontend and platform developers who would shortlist Vercel for deployment and AI workload serving.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> ngrok is developer infrastructure that routes and secures traffic to your apps, APIs, and AI models

> One gateway, every model. Change one URL to route between hosted or self-hosted models, with failover and observability built in

> An all-in-one cloud networking platform that secures, transforms, and routes traffic to all your services no matter where they run

**Edges:**

- competitor [[pinggy-io]]
- competitor [[middleware-io]]
- competitor [[octelium-com]]
- competitor [[prev-sh]]
