Junior System Administrator & DevOps at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 20
Oct 3, 2025
Our experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been quite straightforward. Since we use the open-source edition, there are no licensing fees, with the main cost being the infrastructure running on EC2 instances in AWS, which helps maintain low expenses. Regarding the setup cost, the primary investment centers on time and expertise; while HAProxy is incredibly powerful, the initial setup requires a bit of a learning curve. However, once the configuration templates are established, adding new applications or backends becomes easy. We haven't opted for HAProxy Enterprise yet, so there are no licensing complexities. In summary, using the open-source version incurs low financial costs but requires an upfront effort to set up, resulting in an overall cost-effective experience.
UNIX System Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Nov 10, 2021
I'm using the freeware version. I have no idea if there is a paid solution because I've never looked into it. I might in the future if I have a use case for it. But right now, I'm leveraging the free version, and it seems to fit well in this stack because I'm using the free Redis.
UNIX System Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Jun 4, 2019
We are not paying for HAProxy support. We're using the free version, compiling it in a container, and using it. The only cost is for the image manager, who is responsible for uploading the image, and that is trivial.
UNIX System Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Jun 4, 2019
We are not paying for HAProxy support. We're using the free version, compiling it in a container, and using it. The only cost is for the image manager, who is responsible for uploading the image, and that is trivial.
HAProxy is considered by many in the industry to be one of the fastest and most popular and trusted software load balancer products in the marketplace today. Organizations are able to immediately deploy HAProxy solutions to enable websites and applications to optimize performance, security, and observability. HAProxy solutions are available to scale to any environment.
HAProxy is an open-source product and has a robust, active, reliable community. The solutions are continually tested and...
Since we used the open-source version, we were not concerned about pricing, setup cost, or licensing.
Setting up HAProxy didn't cost anything for me.
Our experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been quite straightforward. Since we use the open-source edition, there are no licensing fees, with the main cost being the infrastructure running on EC2 instances in AWS, which helps maintain low expenses. Regarding the setup cost, the primary investment centers on time and expertise; while HAProxy is incredibly powerful, the initial setup requires a bit of a learning curve. However, once the configuration templates are established, adding new applications or backends becomes easy. We haven't opted for HAProxy Enterprise yet, so there are no licensing complexities. In summary, using the open-source version incurs low financial costs but requires an upfront effort to set up, resulting in an overall cost-effective experience.
HAProxy is an open-source solution.
The product is open source.
I use the open-source version of the product. I don't have experience with the licensed version of the solution.
We are using HAProxy as an open-source.
There is a license model in place. It is accessible.
Licensing costs are inexpensive.
The solution is open source so is free.
The licensing fee for the entire WAF solution is very affordable with Loadbalancer.org. There are no separate charges for HAProxy and WAF.
The setup was not difficult it usually takes a day to complete for a VPC. When it comes to pricing HAProxy is free.
HAProxy is mostly open-source, so I cannot provide any pricing or licensing numbers.
HAProxy is free open-source software.
I'm using the freeware version. I have no idea if there is a paid solution because I've never looked into it. I might in the future if I have a use case for it. But right now, I'm leveraging the free version, and it seems to fit well in this stack because I'm using the free Redis.
It is free of cost.
HAProxy is free in the initial offer. However, pricing can be improved.
We are not paying for HAProxy support. We're using the free version, compiling it in a container, and using it. The only cost is for the image manager, who is responsible for uploading the image, and that is trivial.
We are not paying for HAProxy support. We're using the free version, compiling it in a container, and using it. The only cost is for the image manager, who is responsible for uploading the image, and that is trivial.
I think that the pricing is very fair, I would definitely recommend buying the Enterprise license.