Traefik Hub is Traefik Labs' commercial API management and gateway add-on for Kubernetes, built on open-source Traefik Proxy. See features and pricing.
Traefik Hub is the commercial API management and API gateway product built by Traefik Labs, the company behind the widely used open-source Traefik Proxy. It is important to distinguish the two: Traefik Proxy is a free, open-source reverse proxy, load balancer, and Kubernetes ingress controller, while Traefik Hub is a separate, paid add-on focused specifically on managing, securing, and publishing APIs at scale.
Traefik Labs was founded in 2016 by Emile Vauge, originally under the name Containous, and grew out of Vauge's work building Traefik as a side project that attracted a large community of contributors. The company has since grown into a broader cloud-native networking and API management vendor built around that original open-source project.
Traefik Hub is designed to work in Kubernetes environments and is explicitly built to be GitOps-compliant, meaning API configuration and publishing decisions can be managed through the same version-controlled, declarative workflows that platform teams already use for infrastructure and application deployments.
Traefik Hub provides centralized rate limiting and quotas across APIs, along with subscription management tools that let organizations create managed or self-serve API subscriptions for internal teams or external partners.
A self-serve API portal is a core piece of the product, offering API discovery, documentation, and interactive testing along with error and usage analytics, so API consumers can find and start using an API without manual onboarding from a platform team.
Notably, Traefik Hub is not limited to organizations running Traefik's own ingress controller; it supports third-party ingress controllers including NGINX, positioning it as a Kubernetes-native API management layer that can sit on top of an organization's existing ingress setup rather than requiring a full migration to Traefik.
Traefik Labs structures its product line into three tiers on its pricing page: Application Proxy, which is the free, open-source Traefik Proxy with core ingress and load balancing features; API Gateway, a paid tier adding a web application firewall, advanced authentication (LDAP, JWT, OAuth, OIDC), rate limiting, caching, and multi-cluster management; and API Management, the full Traefik Hub offering, which adds API mocking, request validation, a centralized control plane, API discovery and versioning, and the self-serve developer portal.
None of the paid tiers publish specific pricing; both API Gateway and API Management are marked for organizations to contact Traefik Labs sales to get a quote based on their cluster and usage requirements.
Traefik Hub is Traefik Labs' commercial, Kubernetes-native API management and API gateway product built on top of the open-source Traefik Proxy.
Open-source Traefik Proxy is a free reverse proxy, load balancer, and ingress controller, while Traefik Hub is a separate paid product that adds API management features like a developer portal, subscriptions, GitOps publishing, and advanced security controls.
Yes, Traefik Hub explicitly supports third-party ingress controllers, including NGINX, alongside Traefik's own ingress controller.
Traefik Labs does not publish pricing for Traefik Hub; both its API Gateway and API Management tiers require contacting sales for a custom quote.
Traefik Hub is built specifically for Kubernetes-native environments, so most of its value assumes an existing Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
Traefik Hub is made by Traefik Labs, the company founded in 2016 by Emile Vauge that also maintains the open-source Traefik Proxy project.
Traefik Labs is the company behind the widely used open-source Traefik Proxy, as well as the commercial API Gateway and Traefik Hub API management products; it was originally founded as Containous in 2016.
Yes, Traefik Hub is designed to be fully GitOps-compliant, letting teams manage API publishing through version-controlled, declarative configuration.