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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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/2/2025

"Efficiency and reliability"

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

The simplicity, efficiency and reliability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Well, lot of features to come and easily scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for reviewing HAProxy!

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/2/2025

"Easy to use"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Easy to configure

Easy to upgrade

Faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

With loads of route to handle it could be difficult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for leaving feedback on HAProxy! Are there ways you can think of that would make routing easier or better?

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/2/2025

"HAProxy is amazing"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Ingress controller, provides great load balancing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

NA, haven’t had a bad experience yet so cant say much Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for reviewing HAProxy!

Guray Y.

DevOps consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/13/2024

"Works great for many uses cases"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Great single page docs, highly configurable and easy config structure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

For a person who doesn't know about terms in its advanced parts it might be hard to get started. And a visual dasgboard might be useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Do you know about the Stats Page? It's a dashboard built into HAProxy. But HAProxy Fusion offers even more.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/2/2025

"Great product"

3.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

It is east to configure and «just» works Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

There could be better integration against kubernetes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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It's good to know that you've found it to be a great product overall. For Kubernetes integration, there's the Ingress Controller or HAProxy Fusion. Are there features you'd like to see?

Verified User in Computer Networking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/3/2025

"Good"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Load balancers are good................... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Nothing is a nice product good ......... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for reviewing HAProxy!

Jonathan C.

Cloud Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/2/2024

"Using HAProxy as a smart connection router for WebSocket connections into meeting servers."

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

It's complete control over the connection management lifecycle Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The config system is a bit esoteric .. have to learn a domain specific configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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The learning curve of the configuration language is what we hear the most. Thank you for sharing.

Satyam J.

Engineering Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/3/2024

"Awesome Experience"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

The ability to define the backend and front end separately Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

We need API management for HaProxy, it's there in the latest version I guess. Can we book for the old one? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Data Plane API is available for managing it programmatically, and HAProxy Fusion for managing clusters of load balancers. Let me know if that helps.

Fabrizio S.

Chief Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/15/2024

"Return to HAProxy"

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Scalabilty and options to control sepárate boundaries for traffic upstream and downstreams, rules, networking options complete availability, wide use cases, long presence as stable solución. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Not a dislike, but it lost visbility vs Nginx ingress controller on kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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I would love to dig into what you mean by visibility compared to NGINX. :-)