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24 alternatives to Traefik – a modern reverse proxy

The Cloud Native Application Proxy. Contribute to traefik/traefik development by creating an account on GitHub.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Traefik – a modern reverse proxy launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Traefik is a Modern Reverse Proxy and Load Balancer

    2018 · traefik.io · its alternatives →

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    Build web apps in pure Python + deploy with a single command

    2024 · reflex.dev · its alternatives →

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    Build like a team of hundreds

    2023 · cloud.appwrite.io · its alternatives →

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    btunnel▲117

    No more localhost, welcome to the internet

    2023 · its alternatives →

  7. 7FR

    Deliver real-time data and low-latency WebSockets & pub/sub at the edge with Fastly. Scale chat, IoT, live apps and messaging with a self-managed infrastructure.

    2017 · fanout.io · its alternatives →

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    Simple mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure. - whytheplatypus/switchboard

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Protect the Docker Daemon from forbidden requests. Contribute to knrdl/docker-socket-protector development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I'm Jarek, and I've built this tool that allows publishing .local domains on the local network using mDNS. It also has a reverse proxy that handles HTTPS termination and port forwarding. I'm working on adding more features, like an index page with all available domains or allowing proxy redirects, so you could redirect from HTTP to HTTPS. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

    2023 · localcan.com · its alternatives →

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    Traefik plugin for Crowdsec - WAF and IP protection - maxlerebourg/crowdsec-bouncer-traefik-plugin

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An app to proxy your network connections, native for OS X

    2014 · blog.websecurify.com · its alternatives →

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    SSH based reverse shell . Contribute to NHAS/reverse_ssh development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Go from 0 to Prod with Traefik the Cloud Native Edge Router

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Caching reverse proxy for testing written in Go. Contribute to nickpresta/chameleon development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    No more localhost, Welcome to the Internet

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Lightweight k8s proxy for local dev

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi Hacker News, I’d like to introduce PipeGate, a lightweight, self-hosted proxy built with FastAPI. I created PipeGate as a fun little exercise to understand how tunneling services work under the hood. PipeGate allows you to expose your local servers to the internet, giving you full control over your setup.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Run your own PaaS using Docker, Traefik, and great analytics - almarklein/mypaas

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    auth-proxy is a minimal HTTP reverse proxy that shows login pages on protected pages, and passes user information in headers. My goal was to build something that’s as flexible as possible and can add auth to any existing infrastructure. It’s pretty straightforward to use, after setting up Stack Auth (which this is based on) you can use the Docker container to proxy port 3000 to 3001: docker run -it \ -e NEXT_PUBLIC_STACK_PROJECT_ID= \ -e NEXT_PUBLIC_STACK_PUBLISHABLE_CLIENT_KEY= \ -e STACK_SECRET_SERVER_KEY= \ -e SERVER_PORT=3000 \ -e PROXY_PORT=3001 \ -p 3001:3001 \…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The fast and secure Load Balancer / API Gateway / Reverse Proxy with built-in service discovery, GeoIP, WAF, bot protection and much more - https://pingoo.io - pingooio/pingoo

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I’d been watching River (Pingora-based) and hoping it would mature, because I think Rust + Pingora (from Cloudflare) is a really solid foundation for a future-proof reverse proxy. Progress stayed quiet, so I started building the “practical reverse proxy layer” on top of Pingora myself: config/routing + operational defaults + a way to plug in extra request/response logic without patching the core. Sentinel: https://github.com/raskell-io/sentinel River: https://github.com/memorysafety/river Quick try: curl -fsSL…

    Feb 2026 · sentinel.raskell.io · its alternatives →

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    led - lehu daemon. Contribute to taoso/led development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Very Simple TCP/UDP Proxy. Contribute to rsc-dev/pyproxy development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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