Calico vs. HAProxy
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Calico | HAProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.5 | 4.7 |
| Review count | 42 | 914 |
| Ease of use | 8.7 | 8.9 |
| Ease of setup | 8.7 | 8.8 |
| Quality of support | 9.3 | 9.2 |
| Meets requirements | 9.4 | 9.3 |
| NPS | 59.52381 | 78.169791 |
| Small Business | 28.6% | 20.9% |
| Mid-Market | 35.7% | 42.8% |
| Enterprise | 35.7% | 36.2% |
| Total page views | 348 | 3,044 |
| Total LLM citations | 1,115 | 9,797 |
Calico
The Calico platform, built on the most trusted open-source technologies in Kubernetes — Calico Open Source, Istio, Envoy, and eBPF — provides a single management plane for secure networking and observability for AI workloads. It can be deployed as Calico Cloud, a fully-managed SaaS platform, or Calico Enterprise, a self-managed platform. Calico works with popular managed Kubernetes services such as AKS, EKS, and GKE, as well as self-managed Kubernetes distributions including Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE/Rancher, VMware Tanzu, and Mirantis.
- Ease of Use
- Security
- Customer Support
- Policy Management
- Features
- Visibility
HAProxy
HAProxy is an open-source software load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications. It provides high availability, load balancing, and best-in-class SSL processing. HAProxy One is an application delivery and security platform that combines the HAProxy core with enterprise-grade security layers, management and orchestration, cloud-native integration, and more.
- Ease of Use
- Load Balancing
- Reliability
- Performance
- Performance Optimization
- Configuration Ease