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Comment: In accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, I disclose that I have been paid by my employer for my contributions to this article. Scrichard16 (talk) 18:40, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

What is ngrok?

ngrok is an American software company known for developing a secure tunneling service that exposes local servers, apps, and apis to the public internet through secure tunnels. The company was founded in 2013 by Alan Shreve and has since become a foundational tool in software development, particularly in the realms of webhook development, local testing, and remote access.

Recently, ngrok has become a Universal Gateway, building expanding to API gateway, site-to-site connectivity, multi-cloud gateways, and Kubernetes ingress. All of this is powered by ngrok's Traffic Policy engine, a configuration language that offers developers the highest level of flexibility to filter, match, manage and orchestrate traffic to ngrok endpoints.

History

ngrok originated as a side project by Alan Shreve, a software engineer who sought a simple method to securely expose local development environments to the internet for testing and integration purposes. The initial version was released as an open-source tool in 2013, quickly gaining popularity among developers for its ease of use and practicality in handling network address translation (NAT) and firewall constraints.

In 2015, Shreve founded **ngrok, Inc.** to commercialize the technology and expand its feature set. The company transitioned to a proprietary model while continuing to offer a free tier, alongside paid plans with additional capabilities like custom domains, authentication, and traffic inspection. ngrok raised a round of funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners in 2021.

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