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HAProxy vs Nginx Proxy Manager: catalog facts
HAProxy	Nginx Proxy Manager
Free HAProxy Community Edition is free and open source. HAProxy Enterprise is a paid product.	Free The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…
Linux, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Handles extremely high connection rates with predictable latency Detailed health checking, queuing and rate limiting built in	Certificates are requested and renewed without touching a config file Access lists put authentication in front of services that have none
Configuration is its own language with a steep learning curve No native automatic certificate issuance; ACME is handled alongside it	Advanced Nginx configuration has to go into a custom snippet box Ships as a Docker image; there is no packaged install
Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Web application
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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