16 self-hosted HAProxy Enterprise alternatives

Caddy is a fast, extensible Go web server and reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS (ACME), HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 support, and a JSON config API.

74.4k stars4.8k forksApache-2.0last commit 25 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Traefik Proxy is a dynamic reverse proxy and load balancer that auto-discovers services from Docker, Kubernetes, and other providers, with HTTPS, routing, and observability built in.

64.1k stars6.1k forksMITlast commit 24 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Nginx Proxy Manager is a web-based admin panel for managing Nginx reverse proxy hosts, redirects, streams, and Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates via Docker.

33.7k stars3.8k forksMITlast commit 9 Jun 2026Actively maintained

NGINX is a high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy with caching, load balancing, TLS termination, and TCP/UDP proxying via a modular architecture.

31.2k stars8.2k forksBSD-2-Clauselast commit 22 Jul 2026Actively maintained

BunkerWeb is an open-source WAF and NGINX-based reverse proxy to protect web apps and APIs with HTTPS automation, security policies, and extensible plugins.

10.8k stars636 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 16 Jul 2026Actively maintained

HAProxy is a fast, reliable reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP and HTTP applications, providing high availability, TLS termination, health checks, and traffic routing.

6.7k stars953 forkslast commit 27 Jul 2026Actively maintained

A general-purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool for homelabs, offering web UI, ACME/TLS, stream proxy, plugins and realtime monitoring.

5.3k stars315 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 25 Jul 2026Actively maintained

High-performance reverse proxy and container orchestrator with Web UI, automatic Docker/Podman route discovery, idle-sleep, access control, and automated Let's Encrypt support.

3.5k stars150 forkslast commit 27 Jul 2026Actively maintained

NPMplus is a Nginx Proxy Manager fork that adds HTTP/3 (QUIC), OIDC auth, stronger TLS defaults, and extra security and logging features in a web UI.

2.2k stars117 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 27 Jul 2026Actively maintained

A Rust-written, memory-safe web server offering automatic Let's Encrypt TLS, KDL configuration, HTTP/2/HTTP/3, reverse proxying, and built-in tooling for serving web apps.

2.1k stars90 forksMITlast commit 22 Jul 2026Actively maintained

High-performance Rust proxy supporting HTTP/SOCKS5 forwarding, transparent proxying, TLS MITM, ICAP integration, ACLs, auth, and observability features.

888 stars82 forksApache-2.0last commit 19 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Self-hosted LAN caching proxy that stores game and software downloads from multiple CDNs to reduce bandwidth usage and speed up repeated installs.

887 stars93 forkslast commit 16 Jan 2026Slowing down

Microservice with a web UI to create, assign, and manage Traefik middlewares, routers, and custom services; supports Traefik v2/v3 and Pangolin API with SQLite persistence.

505 stars17 forksMITlast commit 24 Mar 2026Actively maintained

Publishes Docker container label-based service definitions into Redis so a central Traefik instance can discover and route services across multiple Docker hosts.

501 stars26 forksMITlast commit 11 May 2026Actively maintained

Web UI to manage Traefik routers, middleware, services and DNS entries, with an optional agent for container label syncing and DNS automation.

489 stars24 forksMITlast commit 26 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Open-source, low-memory web server written in C that provides FastCGI/SCGI/CGI, TLS support, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2, modular architecture and high concurrency.

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