🆚 Envoy vs. HAProxy

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Load balancer
Load balancer

About

Envoy is a high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures.

It provides advanced L4/L7 load balancing, HTTP/2 and gRPC proxying, service discovery integration, observability with distributed tracing and rich metrics, and dynamic configuration via xDS APIs.

HAProxy is a high-performance reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP- and HTTP-based applications.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
HAProxy EnterpriseCustom

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #6
Load Balancers › Rank #13
Caching › Rank #11
Caching › Rank #20

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Envoy load balancer is 11 times more popular than HAProxy.
Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers
Caching

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Envoy is more popular than HAProxy in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Germany
Canada
Brazil
Japan
France
Australia
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Envoy is more popular than HAProxy in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Finance/Banking
Entertainment
General News
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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#12
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