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