HAProxy Reviews & Product Details

HAProxy is an open-source software load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications. It provides high availability, load balancing, and best-in-class SSL processing. HAProxy One is an application delivery and security platform that combines the HAProxy core with enterprise-grade security layers, management and orchestration, cloud-native integration, and more. Platform components: HAProxy Enterprise: a flexible data plane layer for TCP, UDP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications that provides high-performance load balancing, high availability, an API/AI gateway, container networking, SSL processing, DDoS protection, bot detection and mitigation, global rate limiting, and a web application firewall (WAF). HAProxy Fusion: a scalable control plane that provides full-lifecycle management, observability, and automation of multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and multi-team HAProxy Enterprise deployments, with infrastructure integration for AWS, Kubernetes, Consul, and Prometheus. HAProxy Edge: a globally distributed application delivery network that provides fully managed application delivery and security services, a secure partition between external traffic and origin networks, and threat intelligence enhanced by machine learning that powers the security layers in HAProxy Fusion and HAProxy Enterprise. Learn more at HAProxy.com

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Daniel R.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/4/2025

"Great control, ease of use"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Fusion controlling all clusters and the ability to modify configs in 1 place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Could be better or easier log formatting, to make troubleshooting quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for leaving this feedback about HAProxy and HAProxy Fusion!

Gary O.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/4/2025

"Excellent, highly scalable, secure load balancer"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

It easy to implement, rock-solid, and can handle just about anything you throw at it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Configuration is difficult for first timers but there are tons of resources to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for reviewing HAProxy!

Amir A.

Container platform developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/2/2025

"Easy to use and quick to setup"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Its easy and it works. Simple and straightforward Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Nothig really. Thats whats make it nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for reviewing HAProxy!

Sanjeev k.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/4/2025

"Its been a nice experience, our company clover is using it from last 10 years"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

mTLS termination and haproxy fusion and teh feature it provides on security plane Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

nothing as such, we have been using this product for last 10 years Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thanks for reviewing HAProxy!

Carlos C.

CWO

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/4/2025

"Proxy and security for the normal people"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Flexibility on the product. Grow from community edition to enterprise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Updates of fusion or haproxy on enterprise might cause unnecessary downtime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for leaving this feedback on HAProxy and HAProxy Fusion. We're working to make it better!

Roger S.

SOC Lead

Law Enforcement

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/5/2024

"powerful, resource-efficient solution"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

We use HAProxy as a reverse proxy and are very satisfied with the results. One of the standout features is its extremely low resource consumption, making it a lean and efficient solution. Despite its lightweight nature, HAProxy offers a wide range of features and delivers excellent performance, even under high traffic loads.

The configuration options are versatile, and its stability is remarkable. We also appreciate the flexibility and easy integration into our existing systems. HAProxy fully meets our needs for reliability and efficiency and has proven to be an invaluable tool in our infrastructure.

For anyone looking for a powerful, resource-efficient solution for load balancing and proxying, HAProxy is highly recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The way we are using the product, didn't show any dislikes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thanks for the review!

James Y.

Head of Engineering

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/2/2025

"Saved our collective arses"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Scaling up our web application platform from 2 -> 2000 CPUs we've made extensive use of HAProxy to corral and control traffic and monitor traffic flows. Whenever we've had a problem connecting our stack, HAProxy has generally been the tool we've reached for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The only downsides are the learning curve and finding the right version of the docs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for reviewing HAProxy! We're always trying to improve usability and documentation, please give us any specific feedback you have.

Kyle G.

Infrastructure Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/4/2025

"HAProxy provides fast, reliable load balancing and WAF"

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Fast, reliable load balancing with WAF that offers the granularity we need to ensure our applications are accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Comments not allowed in configuration in Fusion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Support for comments in Fusion is coming. :-)