Caddy vs relayd
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted reverse proxy & gateways options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare Caddy with
choose an app… Traefik Pi-hole acme.sh mitmproxy Kong Gateway Istio AdGuard Home NPS Nginx Proxy Manager Nginx Envoy Authelia Pingora authentik SafeLine Pangolin Anubis Ingress-NGINX DDNS-Go Apache APISIX Shadowsocks-libev flaresolverr LibreSpeed OAuth2 Proxy CrowdSec CoreDNS cert-manager OpenResty dnscrypt-proxy Tengine MyIP Linkerd FrankenPHP SmartDNS imgproxy Tyk BunkerWeb lego YARP Technitium DNS Server ExternalDNS Tinyauth iodine Fabio Blocky HAProxy dae Tinyproxy NGINX Unit 3proxy Zoraxy WireGuard UI sslh Tor Browser Pomerium go-shadowsocks2 sish Caddy Docker Proxy Emissary-ingress Apache HTTP Server Varnish Cache Kuma Contour go-doxy Coraza WAF Speed Test by OpenSpeedTest™ mosdns Sozu SWAG Skipper Squid Algernon Canary Tokens MySpeed Gateway API Sablier KrakenD Angie Syslog-ng River Static Web Server beelzebub Traefik Mesh gobetween Apache Traffic Server Maza ad blocking frp-panel Adguard Home Sync Træfik Hub Note Caddy-L4 UUSEC WAF OpenResty Manager Pingap Ehco SimpleTorrent g3proxy Unifi-controller ctrld HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Gravitee API Management HAProxy Data Plane API Chromium Duck DNS Traefik Geoblock Cloudflare DDNS Privoxy Wakupator socks5-proxy-server Pound gandi-livedns Urbit Holesail Switchboard Adguard Firefox Lighttpd Remmina Tor Snowflake Proxy Twingate Vinyl Cache
Compare relayd with
choose an app… Traefik Pi-hole acme.sh mitmproxy Kong Gateway Istio AdGuard Home NPS Nginx Proxy Manager Envoy Fabio HAProxy sslh Sozu River gobetween Træfik Hub Note Caddy-L4 Pound
Feature Caddy relayd Category Reverse Proxy & Gateways Reverse Proxy & Gateways License Apache-2.0 ISC Language Go C Setup difficulty Easy Hard Min. RAM 64 MB 32 MB Deployment docker, binary, bare-metal bare-metal, source GitHub stars ★ 74,748 ★ 3,851 First released 2015 2006 Replaces Nginx, Apache HAProxy, F5 BIG-IP
Why pick each one
Choose relayd if… Tightly integrated with OpenBSD Very lightweight relayd details
Frequently asked questions Is Caddy or relayd better? Caddy is the stronger all-round pick: it has both the larger community and the simpler easy setup. Consider relayd if its specific feature set fits your needs better.
Are Caddy and relayd free and open-source? Yes. Caddy is licensed under Apache-2.0 and relayd under ISC. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Caddy and relayd with Docker? Caddy: yes. relayd: check the project docs for container support.