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Self-hosted / open sourceNetwork & Firewall ManagementHeadquarters: US

HAProxy: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

HAProxy is free, open-source software for load balancing and reverse proxying of TCP and HTTP applications. It distributes traffic across multiple servers and offers, among other things, TLS termination, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, and ACME certificate management. The project was started in 2000 by Willy Tarreau, who still maintains it. Alongside the free Community edition, HAProxy Technologies sells commercial products and support, including HAProxy Enterprise, ALOHA appliances (hardware and virtual) and a Kubernetes Ingress Controller.

HAProxy is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 and runs on infrastructure of your choice, so you decide where traffic is processed. The company HAProxy Technologies is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts (US), with offices in the United States and Europe; its French entity, HAProxy Technologies SAS, holds the trademark in France and other jurisdictions. Anyone buying a commercial edition or support therefore contracts with a company headquartered in the US. Running the Community edition yourself keeps full control in your hands.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-675
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalAS12876 - Scaleway SAS, FR (FR)Technically measured
CategoryNetwork & Firewall Management
TypeProduct
Websitehaproxy.org ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to HAProxy

The European alternatives to HAProxy come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with HAProxy

HAProxy is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so HAProxy scores best on data residency.

HAProxy is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs HAProxy together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to HAProxy?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to HAProxy include Allegro Packets, Deciso OPNsense and Endian UTM. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to HAProxy?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to HAProxy include Deciso OPNsense, Endian UTM, IPFire and SKUDONET. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is HAProxy GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

HAProxy is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 9, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

Supported versions
haproxy.org/#down

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 9, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

Digital sovereignty in Network & Firewall Management

Network & Firewall Management: Central management of firewalls, switches and Wi-Fi, network access control (NAC), load balancing and DNS/DHCP/IPAM. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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