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traefik vs landscape
traefik has 64,984 GitHub stars, 6,207 forks, 939 open issues and last shipped today. landscape has 1,558 stars, 121 forks, 29 open issues and last shipped today. traefik leads on adoption by 4,071% (64,984 vs 1,558 stars). traefik is written in Go under MIT; landscape is written in Rust under GPL-3.0. traefik has attracted 10% as many forks as stars, landscape 8%. landscape was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| traefik | landscape | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 65K | ★ 1.6K |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Written in | Go | Rust |
| Last push | 2026-09-28 | 2026-09-28 |
| Forks | ⑂ 6.2K | ⑂ 121 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick traefik if
- You weight community size — 65K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick landscape if
- You want the landscape feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the GPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Rust
- You evaluated both and landscape fits your workflow better
About traefik
Traefik — pronounced traffic — is "The Cloud Native Application Proxy": an MIT licensed, Go based HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that watches your orchestrator or service registry and generates its own routes, aimed at teams running microservices on Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, Consul, Etcd, Rancher v2, or Amazon ECS.
read the full traefik overview →
About landscape
Landscape is an open source router platform that configures a standard Linux distribution as a router by steering traffic by domain rather than IP alone, built in Rust with eBPF and aimed at self hosters who want policy routing on hardware and distributions they already control.
read the full landscape overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is traefik or landscape more popular?
traefik has 64,984 GitHub stars and landscape has 1,558. traefik has the larger community by that measure.
Are traefik and landscape free?
Both are open source. traefik is licensed under MIT and landscape under GPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between traefik and landscape?
traefik is written in Go and landscape in Rust. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, traefik or landscape?
Choose traefik if you want the larger community (64,984 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose landscape if its feature set, stack or GPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.