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What is Envoy Proxy?
A high-performance distributed proxy that enables communication across individual services and large-scale microservice architectures, with support for modern protocols and advanced routing capabilities.
Envoy Proxy pricing
We don't have Envoy Proxy's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Envoy Proxy does
The capabilities that matter for load balancers, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Layer
- L7
- Deployment form
- Software/self host
- Tls termination
- ✓
- Http2 http3 support
- ✓
- Gslb multi region
- -
- K8s ingress or gateway API
- ✓
- WAF bundled
- -
- Autoscaling integration
- -
- Health check depth
- HTTP l7
- Session persistence
- -
- Fips 140 validated
- ✓
- Open source
- ✓
- Pricing model
- Open source self host
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Linux
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (5)
Independently observed- Prometheus
- MongoDB
- DynamoDB
- GCP
- OpenTelemetry
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 11 (8 in the last 12 months), max severity CRITICAL sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Envoy Proxy FAQ
Common questions about Envoy Proxy, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Envoy Proxy?
Envoy is a production-grade proxy written in C++ that mediates network communication for cloud-native systems. It manages traffic across microservices and AI workloads using modern protocols including HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and gRPC. It is indexed under Load Balancers.
Source: https://www.envoyproxy.io
Is Envoy Proxy free to use?
Envoy Proxy is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.envoyproxy.io
What platforms does Envoy Proxy support?
Envoy Proxy supports Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://www.envoyproxy.io
Can Envoy Proxy be self-hosted?
Yes. Envoy Proxy can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://www.envoyproxy.io
What does Envoy Proxy integrate with?
We have confirmed 5 integrations for Envoy Proxy, including Prometheus, MongoDB, DynamoDB, GCP and OpenTelemetry. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.envoyproxy.io
Is Envoy Proxy open source?
Yes. Envoy Proxy is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.
Envoy Proxy alternatives
Other load balancers we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- AWS Elastic Load BalancingAutomatically distribute application traffic across multiple computing resourceslow · 25%
- Cloudflare Load BalancingCloud-agnostic traffic distribution with automatic multi-region failoverlow · 20%
- NGINXA lightweight, high-performance web server and reverse proxylow · 6%
- MetalLBlow · 14%
- Google Cloud Load BalancingA managed service that distributes traffic across applications for optimal performance and reliabilitylow · 7%
- Kemp LoadMasterlow · 8%
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Envoy Proxy, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development activity | 63 | 0.09 | 5.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 92 | 0.06 | 5.8 | ✓ |
| Security score | 85 | 0.04 | 3.6 | ✓ |
| Stars | 84 | 0.03 | 2.2 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 22 | 0.07 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 26 | 0.06 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 5 | 0.12 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 66% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Layer: L7 · Open source: Yes · Pricing model: open-source-self-host · Rate limiting: Yes · Deployment form: software/self-host · Tls termination: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | C++ | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-19 · 75% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| History | 20 items | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 70% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60% |
| Scorecard | 8.5 | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 90% |
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 11 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fenvoyproxy%2Fenvoy&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 8 · Max severity: CRITICAL | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 90% |
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