HAProxy Community Edition
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What both publish
| Fact | HAProxy Community Edition | Piko |
|---|---|---|
| Integrations | The 3.4 release notes list an OpenTelemetry filter and ACME certificate features including DNS-01 challenges. | Piko provides a Go SDK and documents hosting behind a Kubernetes Gateway or HTTP load balancer. |
| Load balancing | It balances TCP connections or HTTP requests across backend servers. | Requests are load balanced among available upstreams listening on the same endpoint. |
| Protocols | The project supports TCP and HTTP-based applications, and its listed recent versions include QUIC and HTTP/3 features. | Piko supports HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP traffic. |
| Purpose | HAProxy is a free, fast reverse proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP applications. | Piko is an open-source reverse proxy for tunneling traffic to services that are not publicly routable. |
| Security | Listed defensive measures include chroot, privilege drops, fork prevention, strict protocol validation, and checks for impossible states. | The maker describes Piko as providing a secure way to connect to services that are not publicly routable, and documents TLS support for Piko forward. |
HAProxy Community Edition plans
- HAProxy Community EditionFree
- HAProxy EnterprisePriced on request
Piko plans
No prices published.
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.
Pick Piko if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.