Compare Open Source vs. Enterprise
Traefik Proxy offers ultimate flexibility and ease of use for individuals and teams running non-mission-critical applications.
Traefik Enterprise brings out of the box high availability and security features necessary for mission critical application workloads, and includes 24/7 support for organizations.
| Features |  Open Source Free |  Enterprise Annual Subscription |
|---|---|---|
| All-in-one Ingress, Mesh and API management | ||
| Ingress management | ||
| Service Mesh: service-to-service communication | ||
| API Gateway | ||
| API Portal | ||
| Traffic Management | ||
| HTTP, HTTP/2, TCP, UDP, Websockets, gRPC | ||
| Mirroring | ||
| Canary deployments | ||
| Stickiness | ||
| Active health checks | ||
| Middlewares (circuit breakers, automatic retries, buffering, response compression, headers) | ||
| Custom middlewares through public and private plugins | ||
| Distributed in-flight request limiting | ||
| Distributed rate limiting (per-IP, per-host, per-header) | ||
| Availability & Scalability | ||
| One line cluster deployment through CLI | ||
| Controllers & proxies resilience | ||
| Scalability (adaptive scale out) | ||
| Distributed in-flight request | ||
| Backup & Restore | ||
| Security | ||
| OpenID Connect (OIDC) | ||
| JWT authentication | ||
| LDAP authentication | ||
| Open Policy Agent (OPA) | ||
| oAuth2 authentication | ||
| HMAC authentication | ||
| Automatic HTTPS | ||
| Distributed Let's Encrypt | ||
| Unlimited Let's Encrypt certificates | ||
| Multi-cluster Let’s Encrypt agent | ||
| Custom rate limiting (Let’s Encrypt) | ||
| Custom certificates | ||
| Encrypted cluster communication | ||
| Vault (by Hashicorp) support | ||
| Observability | ||
| Cluster-wide dashboard | ||
| Proxies health check | ||
| Distributed tracing (Jaeger, Open Tracing, Zipkin) | ||
| Real-time traffic metrics (Datadog, Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, StatsD) | ||
| Cloud Native Migration | ||
| Hybrid routing (legacy and cloud-native) | ||
| Legacy infrastructure support | ||
| Progressive migration model | ||
| GitOps-workflow ready | ||
| Support services | ||
| Community forum | ||
| Business days & 24/7 support options | ||
| Direct access to the Traefik expert team | ||
| Dedicated support team helps you manage and maintain your environment | ||
| Get notifications about new releases, updates, and fixes | ||
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