HAProxy Community Edition comparisons
HAProxy Community Edition is compared head-to-head with NGINX, Cloudflare Tunnel and Traefik Proxy and more: 7 head-to-heads in Reverse Proxy Software, each with the specs and prices we checked.
HAProxy Community Edition head-to-head
- HAProxy Community Edition vs NGINX
- HAProxy Community Edition vs Cloudflare Tunnel
- HAProxy Community Edition vs Traefik Proxy
- HAProxy Community Edition vs Nginx Proxy Manager
- HAProxy Community Edition vs Apache Traffic Server
- HAProxy Community Edition vs Caddy
- HAProxy Community Edition vs ngrok
HAProxy Community Edition vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Deployment model | TLS termination | Web application firewall | Response caching | Rate limiting | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | HAProxy Community Edition | Yes | Free | Yes | 9.1 | ||||
| 1 | NGINX | Yes | Free | Self-hosted | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | 9.3 |
| 3 | Cloudflare Tunnel | Yes | Free | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.9 | |
| 4 | Traefik Proxy | Yes | Free | Self-hosted | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.8 | |
| 5 | Nginx Proxy Manager | Free | Self-hosted | Yes | Yes | 8.6 | |||
| 6 | Apache Traffic Server | Free | Self-hosted | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.4 | ||
| 7 | Caddy | Yes | Free | Self-hosted | Yes | No | 8.3 | ||
| 8 | ngrok | Yes | $10/mo | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.2 |
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