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Traefik

A cloud-native gateway and reverse proxy platform for routing microservices, containers, and APIs across hybrid environments

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Traefik Labs
Also known as
traefik

Available worldwide

What is Traefik?

A gateway platform that automatically discovers and routes traffic for microservices by integrating with orchestrators and service registries. It provides comprehensive API management, authentication, rate limiting, observability, and multi-cluster control across on-premises, cloud, and containerized environments.

Independently observed

Traefik pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
HybridFree tier

Traefik Proxy

Free
Free

Open source reverse proxy and ingress controller

  • Services auto-discovery
  • HTTP/2/3, TCP, UDP, gRPC, WebSockets
  • Real-time metrics and distributed tracing
  • Canary deployments
  • OpenTelemetry support
  • Ingress-view dashboard

What Traefik does

The capabilities that matter for api gateways, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Deployment
Hosting
Cloud + self-hosted
Kubernetes-native
✓
Traffic
Rate limiting
✓
Request/response transformation
✓
Security
OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
✓
Mutual TLS
✓
Protocols
GraphQL gateway
-
gRPC support
✓
Delivery
Developer portal
✓
Monetization
✓
Ecosystem
Plugin ecosystem
Extensive
Insight
Observability
✓
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
  • Linux
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Hybrid
  • Air-gapped
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (21)

Independently observed
observability
  • OpenTelemetry→•
cloud
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure•
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker Swarm
  • Consul
  • Etcd
  • Rancher
  • Amazon ECS
  • HashiCorp Nomad
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Let's Encrypt
  • Prometheus
  • Datadog
  • Statsd
  • InfluxDB
  • Argo CD
  • OpenAPI
  • ModSecurity
  • Mesos

Security & compliance

Independently observed
  • FIPS 140-3active
  • FIPS 140-2active

Known vulnerabilities: 51 (27 in the last 12 months), max severity CRITICAL sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality

Traefik FAQ

Common questions about Traefik, answered from independent, dated evidence.

What is Traefik?

A gateway platform that automatically discovers and routes traffic for microservices by integrating with orchestrators and service registries. It provides comprehensive API management, authentication, rate limiting, observability, and multi-cluster control across on-premises, cloud, and containerized environments. It is indexed under API Gateways.

Source: https://traefik.io/pricing

Is Traefik free to use?

Traefik is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MIT licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.

Source: https://traefik.io/pricing

What platforms does Traefik support?

Traefik supports the web, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.

Source: https://traefik.io/pricing

Can Traefik be self-hosted?

Yes. Traefik can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.

Source: https://traefik.io/pricing

What does Traefik integrate with?

We have confirmed 20 integrations for Traefik, including Docker, Kubernetes, Consul, Etcd, Rancher, Amazon ECS, HashiCorp Nomad and Azure Service Fabric, plus 12 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.

Source: https://traefik.io/pricing

Is Traefik open source?

Yes. Traefik is published under the MIT 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.

Source: https://github.com/traefik/traefik

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Balanced composite 56 / 100
low · 44%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Capabilities1000.066.3✓
Development activity610.095.8✓
Security score640.042.7✓
Stars910.032.4✓
Integrations330.072.4✓
Dependent projects290.061.8✓
Release cadence00.050.0-
Security posture00.120.0-
Package downloads00.140.0-
Developer Q&A activity00.060.0-

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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

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d87mediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars64,767highsource · 2026-09-07 · 90%
Dependent repos52highsource · 2026-09-07 · 85%

Content

AttributeValueEvidence
Faq6 itemsmediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 66%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
CapabilitiesMtls: Yes · Hosting: both · K8s native: Yes · Oauth oidc: Yes · Grpc support: Yes · Http caching: Yesmediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count13mediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryGohighsource · 2026-09-07 · 90%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxMIThighsource · 2026-09-07 · 95%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
AvailabilityPrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: …highsource · 2026-09-07 · 75%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60%
TransparentNomediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60%
Modelfreemiummediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
History20 itemsmediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 70%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Scorecard6.4highsource · 2026-09-07 · 90%
VulnerabilitiesCount: 51 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Ftraefik%2Ftraefik%2Fv2&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 27 · Max severity: CRITICALhighsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%
CertificationsFIPS 140-3, FIPS 140-2mediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60%
Trust centerhttps://traefik.io/blog/traefik-enterprise-2-3-arrives-with-vault-support-gitops-compliance-and-moremediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60%
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