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Traefik vs Shuttle

A detailed comparison to help you choose between Traefik and Shuttle.

Quick Verdict

4.1/5

Traefik

0 reviews

3.4/5

Shuttle

0 reviews

Traefik is rated higher (4.1 vs 3.4). Traefik is a cloud-native reverse proxy and load balancer designed for microservices and Kubernetes. Auto-discovers services from Docker, K8s, and Consul. Automatic Let's Encrypt. Shuttle deploys Rust backend services with zero configuration — annotate your code with macros and Shuttle handles the infrastructure. No YAML, no Terraform. Pay-per-use serverless Rust.

Traefik

Traefik

Cloud-native reverse proxy for microservices

Shuttle

Shuttle

Deploy Rust backends from your code — no config

Overview
Rating4.1 (0 reviews)✓3.4 (0 reviews)
Pricing modelfreemiumfreemium
Starting priceFree tier availableFree tier available
Best forDocker and Kubernetes teams who want TLS, routing and service discovery with minimal configuration work — especially platform teams standardizing on Kubernetes ingress and Gateway API.Rust developers — solo or small teams — who want a backend live in minutes from annotated code and can accept a London-only region and no contractual uptime guarantee.
Specifications (entry plan)
CPU cores—0 vCPU
RAM—1 GB
Storage—1 GB
Bandwidth——
SLA uptime——
Data-center count—1
€/GB RAM/mo—€0.00
Features
IPv6
DDoS protection
Automated backups
Snapshots
Managed option
Bare metal
GPU available
S3-compatible
Hourly billing
Free tier✓
Data-center locations
Regions—
AWS eu-west-2 (London)
Tags
Tags
free tieropen sourceself hostablekubernetes support
free tieropen sourceus datacenter
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Traefik

Pros

  • + MIT-licensed proxy with the full feature set free for commercial use — no per-service or seat charges
  • + Auto service discovery from Docker, Kubernetes, Consul and others with hot-reloaded dynamic configuration
  • + Automatic Let's Encrypt TLS across many hostnames, HTTP/2-3, gRPC, WebSockets, TCP/UDP routing
  • + Built-in observability: Prometheus/Datadog/StatsD metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, dashboard and API
  • + Long production track record since 2016, active v3.x releases, Gateway API leadership, plugin catalog (Go + WebAssembly)

Cons

  • - Commercial Hub tiers are sales-gated with no public pricing; marketplace contracts run $30,000-$50,000/year
  • - Advanced auth (OIDC/JWT/OPA), WAF, multi-cluster and FIPS live behind the paid line
  • - Dynamic-discovery debugging (middleware ordering, provider state) has a real learning curve
  • - No vendor-published benchmarks and no uptime SLA for Hub's managed components
  • - Small vendor behind the commercial product; EULA includes license-key verification for paid installs
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Shuttle

Pros

  • + Infrastructure from code annotations: databases, secrets and static assets provisioned from function signatures, no YAML or Terraform
  • + Real free tier (0.25 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM, 0.5 GB database, 100 build minutes/month) with custom domain support
  • + Published, itemized usage rates ($0.12/GB storage, $0.025/build minute, $0.10/GB egress) instead of sales-quoted pricing
  • + Clear isolation tiering: spot instances on free, reserved VM-isolated instances from Pro
  • + First-class Rust framework support (Axum, Actix Web, Rocket, Serenity) and open-source platform code

Cons

  • - Rust only — other language stacks are not supported today
  • - Single AWS region (London, eu-west-2) with no region choice below the not-yet-available Enterprise tier
  • - No published uptime SLA on any current tier; support is Discord-based with 1-business-day response on Pro
  • - Steep jump from $20/mo Pro to $250/mo Growth, with metered usage on top of every paid tier
  • - Tier contents have changed materially over time (projects and included egress were cut in 2025)
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