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HAProxy vs Radware Cloud WAF Service comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
HAProxy boosts efficiency by reducing costs and staff needs, offering speed, reliability, and enhanced scalability for traffic management.
Sentiment score
5.8
Radware Cloud WAF Service enhances security, reduces costs, and increases uptime, offering substantial savings and improved operational efficiency.
Operational efficiency has improved; we no longer have staff consistently monitoring backend servers during deployment or scaling events, as HAProxy's health checks and hitless reloads allow us to push changes with minimal manual intervention.
Junior System Administrator & DevOps at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
This resulted in a drastic decrease in costs and, at the same time, the accuracy of the hits coming on HAProxy was almost around 100% or 99.99%.
Head of DevOps at TripFactory
I estimate seeing a return on investment with HAProxy, as it significantly reduced staff requirements and enhanced scaling capabilities, particularly when transitioning from NGINX, which faced issues.
Principal Engineer Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
With our on-prem solution, we spent a lot of time on maintenance tasks, OS updates, and ensuring appliances ran smoothly, but with Cloud WAF, all that is managed by the cloud team, allowing us to focus on alert analysis.
Application Supervisor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
We get major insights from the analytics rules and dashboards, allowing us to pinpoint main issues.
IT Security Engineer at Adani Enterprises Ltd
The Radware API Discovery has definitely helped us because once it was implemented, we are not facing any SLA breach issues with the customers whose network we are protecting via this service, helping us save a lot of money.
Security Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.3
HAProxy's support is praised for responsiveness and skill, though some suggest improved documentation and communication for better efficiency.
Sentiment score
7.2
Radware Cloud WAF Service is praised for responsive, expert support, with most users rating their experience highly despite minor issues.
Since we are utilizing the open-source edition, community forums, mailing lists, and GitHub have been invaluable, with typically someone having encountered the same problems we faced.
Junior System Administrator & DevOps at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
My interactions with HAProxy's customer support were limited, but the feedback from my team indicated satisfactory service.
Principal Engineer Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
On a scale from one to ten, I would rate the technical support that Radware provides for Cloud WAF Service a perfect ten.
IT Security Engineer at Adani Enterprises Ltd
I would give the Radware technical support a ten out of ten. They are definitely outstanding.
Security Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
On a scale from one to ten, I would rate customer support a ten.
Analista de cybersecurity at Globalhitss
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
HAProxy is highly scalable, adaptable for small to medium businesses, efficiently handling substantial connections and diverse user volumes.
Sentiment score
7.6
Radware Cloud WAF Service efficiently scales for increased traffic and threats, praised for resource flexibility and peak performance adaptability.
We manage an automatic load balancing feature where we add HAProxy servers dynamically behind the application load balancer to handle more traffic.
Head of DevOps at TripFactory
HAProxy's scalability is excellent; as our traffic expands, it handles load increases effortlessly.
Junior System Administrator & DevOps at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
For scalability, HAProxy meets my needs, supporting our initial horizontal scaling and then adapting to vertical scaling in a VMware environment.
Principal Engineer Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability of Radware Cloud WAF Service rates as a perfect ten out of ten, as we haven't encountered any scaling issues.
Application Supervisor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability of the Radware Cloud WAF Service deserves a full ten, as it is definitely scalable.
IT Engineer at Adani Enterprises Ltd
In terms of scalability, it's also a 10 out of 10 because we are using Radware Cloud WAF Service for more than 60,000 employees in our organization, and it works perfectly fine.
SOC Analyst at Adani Enterprises Ltd
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
HAProxy offers high stability and reliable performance, enhancing system uptime with minimal downtime and frequent functionality updates.
Sentiment score
8.1
Radware Cloud WAF Service is highly stable, with minimal interruptions and rare issues, earning top scores from users.
This reliability serves as a key reason for our choice, providing us with confidence even when faced with heavy traffic.
Junior System Administrator & DevOps at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The hot reload feature of HAProxy also really helped us so that we never had to shut it down to reload it.
CEo at CloudPositive
We have reduced a lot of servers, replacing them with one or two HAProxy servers which deliver better performance, accuracy, and an almost 100% success rate with requests.
Head of DevOps at TripFactory
The stability of Radware Cloud WAF Service is excellent, and I would rate it as a ten.
Security Team Leader at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability of Radware Cloud WAF Service is perfect; I would rate it a ten out of ten.
IT Manager at Adani Enterprises Ltd
Regarding stability, I can say that in the last one and a half years, I haven't seen any downtime.
SOC Analyst at Adani Enterprises Ltd
 

Room For Improvement

Users recommend improved HAProxy documentation, management tools, dynamic configuration, cloud integration, APIs, and enhanced load-balancing and clustering capabilities.
Radware Cloud WAF Service needs better reporting, integration, user interface, support, training, API, AI capabilities, and pricing strategies.
The configuration syntax is powerful yet can become overwhelming for newcomers; a more beginner-friendly interface or a native GUI without relying on third-party tools would ease the onboarding process.
Junior System Administrator & DevOps at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
An easier desktop interface to connect to a remote server and make changes on my PC would be beneficial.
DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The reloading functionality is effective as it allows soft reloads without interrupting traffic patterns.
Principal Engineer Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
It would be beneficial if we could perform POST requests and integrate our applications more effectively.
System Admin at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The documentation is not up to par, as while the platform's system is robust, the documentation, particularly for API integration, could be more developer-friendly with real-world use cases.
CIO at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
To improve Radware Cloud WAF Service, I believe it should enable full application and API coverage to ensure all web applications and APIs, including internal and legacy web services, are onboarded.
Assistant Manager (Network and Cyber Security) at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers find HAProxy cost-effective, with free open-source options and a pricier Enterprise Edition offering enhanced features.
Radware Cloud WAF Service offers flexible, modular pricing with negotiable terms, balancing costs with comprehensive security features.
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.
Junior System Administrator & DevOps at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Setting up HAProxy didn't cost anything for me.
DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The pricing remains competitive compared to other vendors.
Principal Engineer Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Pricing could be more competitive, especially for smaller customers.
EVP, Chief Digital officer and head of Cybersecurity at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
I find Radware Cloud WAF to be a quite expensive product compared to others.
engineer with 51-200 employees
The pricing is not cheap; it is expensive, but it is effective.
Cyber security manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

HAProxy offers high performance load balancing with customization, scalability, and support for diverse environments, enhancing user experience and flexibility.
Radware Cloud WAF Service offers comprehensive security features including DDoS protection, bot management, and seamless integration with existing systems.
By moving all SSL termination to the load balancer, I now manage certificates in a single place, and I can also utilize Let's Encrypt with HAProxy's built-in ACME support, making renewal automatic.
Junior System Administrator & DevOps at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
HAProxy positively impacted our organization by exceeding scalability expectations, initially projected at 200k requests but ultimately handling over 15 million transactions per second without any issues.
Principal Engineer Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
As a production engineer at that time, I definitely wanted to ensure that the system could handle massive connections, especially since we operated an e-commerce platform where we could not lose any customer calls.
CEo at CloudPositive
The most important aspect of Radware Cloud WAF is that it is over the cloud, offering a comprehensive solution that includes WAF, API protection, bots, and Layer 7 DDoS.
EVP, Chief Digital officer and head of Cybersecurity at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
It has features such as API security that protect against advanced attacks, including business logic attacks.
Application Supervisor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The automated analytics for looking at events in Radware Cloud WAF Service are working for us; the automatic event correlation is very beneficial to analyze how the alerts and events occur and visualize the patterns of network traffic and other traffic going in and out from the application via Radware Cloud WAF Service.
IT Engineer at Adani Enterprises Ltd
 

Categories and Ranking

HAProxy
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
12th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (2nd), Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (6th), Bot Management (7th), Service Mesh (4th)
Radware Cloud WAF Service
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
2nd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of HAProxy is 2.0%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Radware Cloud WAF Service is 1.5%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Application Firewall (WAF) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Radware Cloud WAF Service1.5%
HAProxy2.0%
Other96.5%
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
 

Featured Reviews

Shrinivas Devarkonda - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of DevOps at TripFactory
Handles high traffic efficiently and simplifies complex routing with rule-based logic
I think HAProxy is good as it stands now, but I believe there could be improvements. gRPC has recently been implemented, which is great, along with TLS 1.2 and 1.3 support, and HTTP 2.0 is also available. However, I'm unsure about the benchmark of those HTTP 2.0 requests on HAProxy. If there were any other protocol with better performance than HTTP 2.0, or perhaps mTLS and other similar features, including that in HAProxy would be really great. For improvements, I think that during setup and configuration, the steps provided are neat and clear. Anyone can easily install and configure it. There are many kernel tuning parameters also available, which is great. For specific improvement, in terms of logging, I think printing the full object of the request may help, or if there's a way to reference two requests, it would be beneficial to find a complete session history from a logged-in customer, as it would help analyze customer and user analytics.
reviewer2811576 - PeerSpot reviewer
Experto de Seguridad Informática at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Security has strengthened banking applications and provides clear insight into bot and API threats
Radware Cloud WAF Service's best features are the simplified management, which is quite intuitive, and the reporting that provides us with relevant information. The reporting allows us to obtain values and data on the amount of traffic entering the application, helping us determine parameters while considering a line of attacks that we might face. This reporting is important to present to a steering committee to justify the application's security. I consider the Anti-Bot and API Protection modules to be extremely important, and by having these additional functionalities configured, we have been able to reinforce and strengthen our applications in a much better way. Radware Cloud WAF Service has positively impacted my organization by providing peace of mind for the team and ensuring regulatory compliance. Radware Cloud WAF Service has been very useful in guaranteeing the integrity of the information and secure access to the applications, which are necessary in the banking field.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Energy/Utilities Company
14%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise51
 

Questions from the Community

Do you recommend HAProxy?
I do recommend HAProxy for more simple applications or for companies with a low budget, since HAProxy is a free, open-source product. HAProxy is also a good choice for someone looking for a stable ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HAProxy?
Since we used the open-source version, we were not concerned about pricing, setup cost, or licensing.
What needs improvement with HAProxy?
For the limited use that I have of HAProxy, I don't have any points to improve. I think I need more time with this tool, or perhaps I simply don't have areas that need to get better. I don't have a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Radware Cloud WAF Service?
I did not purchase Radware Cloud WAF Service through the AWS Marketplace. My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing of Radware Cloud WAF Service is not something I decide, as it comes f...
What needs improvement with Radware Cloud WAF Service?
There is one thing that needs to be improved in Radware Cloud WAF Service. When I am onboarding any kind of application and while bypassing those applications, it takes too much time. This time nee...
What is your primary use case for Radware Cloud WAF Service?
My main use case for Radware Cloud WAF Service is to prevent attacks. We have web applications for our company, and we need to prevent those web apps from various kinds of attacks such as DDoS or i...
 

Also Known As

HAProxy Community Edition, HAProxy Enterprise Edition, HAPEE
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