🆚 Envoy vs. HAProxy
- 📈 Envoy is much more popular than HAProxy.
- 🌍 Envoy is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this 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
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
HAProxy EnterpriseCustom
Categories
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
Spain
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Brazil in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Poland in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Canada in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Spain 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
Education/Reference
Finance/Banking
Entertainment
General News
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

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