A10 Thunder ADC
6.2#4 in load balancing softwareAPILinuxSelf-hosted
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HAProxy Enterprise
5.3#18 in load balancing softwareAPILinuxSelf-hosted
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| Fact | A10 Thunder ADC | HAProxy Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | It distributes workloads across servers, evaluates application health, and supports global server load balancing across data centers and clouds. | The product page describes active-active failover and automated health checks, and states a 99.999% uptime capability. |
| Deployment | The product is offered as physical and SPE appliances, virtual appliances, bare metal, containers, and cloud deployments. | It can be deployed on-premises, in air-gapped, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud environments, and is packaged as software, a virtual appliance, or rack-mounted hardware. |
| Founded | 2004 | 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 product page lists service discovery for Kubernetes, Consul, and Consul Enterprise; AWS and Azure deployment; and native Prometheus integrations. |
| 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 Enterprise distributes incoming traffic across servers and continuously checks server health, rerouting requests when a server starts to fail. |
| Security | The product includes web and DNS firewall capabilities, single sign-on, DDoS protection, and support for advanced encryption including PFS and ECC. | Security features include a WAF, DDoS protection, bot management, global rate limiting, and mTLS encryption. |
| Support | A10 says its technical assistance center uses follow-the-sun support, and customers with a valid Thunder or AX Series support contract can download current software releases and receive product updates. | HAProxy advertises expert support available 24/7/365. |
A10 Thunder ADC plans
- Thunder ADCPriced on request
HAProxy Enterprise plans
- 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 Enterprise if…
HAProxy Enterprise suits organizations that need self-hosted traffic distribution across servers and want routing, security, and management controls. Its deployment options include air-gapped, hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud, and Kubernetes environments.