🆚 Envoy vs. HAProxy
- 📈 Envoy is much more popular than HAProxy.
- 🌍 Envoy is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ HAProxy is particularly popular in the United States.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Envoy
HAProxyType
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.
LuaHeadquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free version ✔️ Community edition, open source
HAProxy Enterprise Custom
Categories
Load Balancers › Rank #7
Load Balancers › Rank #16
Caching › Rank #12
Caching › Rank #21
API Gateways › Rank #1
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Envoy load balancer is 13 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
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Germany
Canada
Brazil
Japan
Spain
France
Australia
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the API Gateways category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the API Gateways category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the API Gateways category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the API Gateways category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the API Gateways category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Canada in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
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
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Finance/Banking
General News
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Linux Foundation company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.