Millau AlternativesLoad Balancers and other similar apps like Millau

Millau is described as 'Free ingress proxy and load balancer designed for microservice architectures built on Docker Swarm' and is a Load Balancer in the development category. There are five alternatives to Millau for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows and Self-Hosted apps. The best Millau alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Millau are Caddy, Træfik Proxy, Haproxy and Envoy Proxy.

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Millau is a free ingress proxy and load balancer designed for microservice architectures built on Docker Swarm.

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Millau alternatives page was last updated Jun 21, 2025
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    nginx

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    nginx [engine x] is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. It has been running for more than five years on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Rambler (RamblerMedia.com).

    57 nginx alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Manual page

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Configurable

    Features

    1.  Reverse Proxy
    2.  Low memory usage
    3.  Load balancing
    4.  HTTPS Support
    5.  HTTP server
    6.  Modular System
    7.  Portable
    8.  Modules
    9.  Multicast RTP streaming

    nginx VS Millau

     

    • nginx is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Millau.

    • nginx is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Millau.

    • nginx is Free and Open SourceMillau is Free and Proprietary
    • nginx is LightweightMillau is not according to our users
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    Caddy

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    Caddy is a web server like Apache, nginx, or lighttpd, but with different goals, features, and advantages.

    25 Caddy alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    Homepage

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Simple installation
    2.  HTTPS Support
    3.  Support for Let's Encrypt
    4.  HTTP Proxy
    5.  Portable
    6.  Modular System
    7.  Support for MarkDown
    8.  HTTP server
    9.  Content Management

    Caddy VS Millau

     

    • Caddy is the most popular Windows alternative to Millau.

    • Caddy is Free and Open SourceMillau is Free and Proprietary
    • Caddy is LightweightMillau is not according to our users
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    Træfik Proxy

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    The Cloud Native Application Proxy Simplify networking complexity while designing, deploying, and operating applications.

    15 Træfik Proxy alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • Docker Hub
    Træfik Proxy screenshot 1

    Træfik Proxy Features

    1.  Load balancing
    2.  SSL
    3. Docker icon  Support for Docker
    4.  High Availability

    Træfik Proxy VS Millau

     
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    Haproxy

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    HAProxy is free, open source software that provides a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spreads requests across multiple servers.

    30 Haproxy alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    Live demo

    Haproxy Features

    1.  Load balancing
    2.  HTTPS Support
    3.  High Availability
    4.  Continuous Configuration

    Haproxy VS Millau

     
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    Envoy Proxy

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    Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications, backends, and APIs.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

    Envoy Proxy Features

    1.  HTTP Proxy

    Envoy Proxy VS Millau

     

    • Envoy Proxy is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Millau.

    • Envoy Proxy is Free and Open SourceMillau is Free and Proprietary
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