HAProxy Holds Its Perfect Score in Load Balancing for Another Consecutive Quarter in G2 Spring 2026 Grid Reports

HAProxy Technologies just racked up another perfect G2 score in Load Balancing for the Spring 2026 Grid Reports. The company earned 78 badges total, including 25 Leader positions across eight categories covering WAF, DDoS Protection, and Bot Detection.

What the Numbers Say

A perfect satisfaction score on G2 is not easy to hold for multiple consecutive quarters. HAProxy has done it by focusing on what matters to the engineers actually deploying these tools: architectural sovereignty and operational control.

The badges span WAF, DDoS mitigation, bot management, load balancing, API gateway, and application delivery. That is a wide spread for a company that many still associate primarily with reverse proxying and load balancing.

The WAF Angle

HAProxy Enterprise WAF has been quietly building a reputation as a high-performance alternative to the big-name cloud WAFs. Their approach gives operators full control over rule sets and deployment architecture, something that matters when you are processing tens of thousands of transactions per second.

Infobip recently shared that they are securing 80,000 transactions per second using HAProxy Enterprise WAF. That is the kind of real-world validation that G2 badges only hint at.

WAFplanet Take

HAProxy is in an interesting position. They are not a pure-play WAF vendor, but their security features keep winning awards alongside dedicated security products. The combination of load balancing expertise with WAF and bot protection under one roof is appealing for teams that want fewer moving parts in their stack. The G2 scores reflect genuine user satisfaction, and consecutive perfect scores are hard to dismiss as a fluke.