A10 Thunder ADC
6.2#4 in load balancing softwareAPILinuxSelf-hosted
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HAProxy Community Edition
7.4#1 in load balancing softwareFree planFree planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted
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| Fact | A10 Thunder ADC | HAProxy Community Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 | HAProxy Technologies is listed as founded in 2013. |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States | Newton, Massachusetts, United States |
| Integrations | The product page names Terraform and Ansible for CI/CD integration, TKC and HashiCorp NIA with Consul for Kubernetes service discovery, and Prometheus/Grafana for monitoring. | The 3.4 release notes list an OpenTelemetry filter and ACME certificate features including DNS-01 challenges. |
| Load balancing | It provides Layer 4–7 load balancing with customizable service health checks and aFleX scripting. | It balances TCP connections or HTTP requests across backend servers. |
| Performance | Features include SSL/TLS offload, TCP optimization, RAM caching, and compression to improve application responsiveness and content delivery. | The site reports a test result of up to 2 million SSL requests per second and 100 Gbps forwarded traffic on AWS Graviton2. |
| Purpose | Thunder ADC is an application delivery controller and Layer 4–7 load balancer designed to protect critical applications, maintain server availability, and accelerate content delivery. | HAProxy is a free, fast reverse proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP applications. |
| Security | The product includes web and DNS firewall capabilities, single sign-on, DDoS protection, and support for advanced encryption including PFS and ECC. | Listed defensive measures include chroot, privilege drops, fork prevention, strict protocol validation, and checks for impossible states. |
A10 Thunder ADC plans
- Thunder ADCPriced on request
HAProxy Community Edition plans
- HAProxy Community EditionFree
- HAProxy EnterprisePriced on request
Pick A10 Thunder ADC if…
It suits organizations from SMBs and large enterprises to service providers and cloud operators that need application delivery, load balancing, and security features. Teams using varied deployment models or automation integrations may also find its listed options relevant.
Pick HAProxy Community Edition if…
HAProxy Community Edition suits Linux users who need a self-hosted proxy or load balancer for TCP and HTTP applications. Its stated focus on high traffic may interest operators of busy websites.