# HAProxy

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/haproxy/  
**Website:** https://www.haproxy.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It exposes a Data Plane API for dynamic configuration management and a stats socket for runtime management.

## Kin Score — 22.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 55.6 |
| Contract Quality | 28.2 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 18.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **HAProxy Data Plane API** — The HAProxy Data Plane API is a REST API for managing HAProxy configuration dynamically. It allows runtime configuration of frontends, backends, servers, ACLs, and other HAProxy...
- **HAProxy Runtime API** — The HAProxy Runtime API (formerly known as the stats socket) is a socket-based interface for dynamically managing HAProxy at runtime. It allows operators to enable or disable se...
- **HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller** — The HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller implements routing rules defined in Kubernetes Ingress resources, dynamically updating HAProxy configuration as pods are added or remov...

## Security (1)

- **Haproxy Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Haproxy Plans Pricing**

## Tags

High Availability, Load Balancing, Networking, Reverse Proxy

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/haproxy/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.