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

Product Website

Seller

HAProxy

Discussions

HAProxy Community

Languages Supported

German, English, French

Overview by

Iwan Price-Evans

Pricing

Pricing provided by HAProxy.

HAProxy

FREE

Open Source

View More Pricing Information

HAProxy Integrations

(13)

Verified by HAProxy

Official Downloads

(4)

edit

How DoubleVerify Transitioned from f5 to HAProxy Enterprise

G2 reviews are authentic and verified.

Here's how.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/2/2025

"HAProxy review"

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

HAProxy is easy to set up and has powerful features. It is reliable and highly performant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

It can have a slightly steeper learning curve than eg. nginx. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

edit

Great feedback! We're working to improve the learning curve. Do you have any specific suggestions for improvement?

Juraj B.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/5/2025

"Its working great when you manage to setup it base on your like"

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Small throughput, speed, deployed as container, versatility, support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Config language, need better documentation... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

edit

What would you like to see in the docs? More of a starter guide?

Verified User in Information Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/8/2022

"Very efficient and reliable"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Easy to configure, very powerful and flexible. It gives us means to protect L7 applications and direct traffic to the appropriate ressource. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

An easy way to serve simple HTTP pages would be a nice addition (apart from error pages) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

edit

There is actually a way to return simple HTTP pages by using the "http-response return" directive. I hope this helps!

Gökberk K.

Data and Integration Specialist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/4/2025

"Devops Engineer"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Haproxy is a perfect solutions that to use Openshift and k8s environment. And it is so reliable for traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

It is so complex synthax in configuration file. It may easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

edit

Thank you for leaving feedback on HAProxy!

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/4/2025

"Powerful Load balance with responsive support"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

HAProxy is a very powerful and scalable load balancer which is easy to configure easy to monitor. The HAProxy team has been very responsive and collaborative with our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

My interaction with HAProxy has only been positive do far Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

edit

Thanks for writing this review of HAProxy!

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/4/2025

"We utilize HAProxy CE to serve our ad-tech traffic for millions of requests per second"

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

HAProxy CE is stable and reliable and we don't need to alter much now that we've established a solid foundation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

haproxy.cfg can get rather long and verbose, making it sometimes difficult to find sections or blocks or specific configuration lines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

edit

Thank you for leaving this feedback on HAProxy!

Davy H.

Software engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/3/2025

"Haproxy user"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Ease of use in scaling our services. We have several services that require zero downtime and this has helped with maintenance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

A bit more complex first getting started with haproxy. Learning curve isn't too steep Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

edit

Thank you for reviewing HAProxy! We're working to improve the setup experience. Do you have suggestions for how we could do better?

Verified User in Airlines/Aviation

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/6/2025

"Best"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Excellent tool to use haproxy and its feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

This is not suitable for beginners and other Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

edit

Thank you for leaving a review! For beginners, we have tutorials. I hope you found them?

Verified User in Hospitality

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/3/2025

"Enjoy the flexibility and simplicity"

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

The multiple levels of control. Due to the lightweight nature the performance and reliability is great. It was used on a project in past time but also in some of my private pocs to showcase functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Could be a steeper learning curve and can cause problems if configs not fully setup.especially for simpler setups.

Debugging could be a pain but this could be a natural thing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

edit

We're looking for ways to simplify the learning curve with better documentation and usability features. Please let us know if you have examples of how we can improve.

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/5/2025

"Revolutionizing failover with HA proxy"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

The high availability as a load balancer and as a proxy as well as the scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Somewhat complex to use/set up. IF not setup correctly is can become a single point of failure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

edit

Thanks for leaving this feedback about HAProxy! We're working to make it less complex through HAProxy Fusion and better docs. Are there other ways we could improve?