Haltdos vs SafeLine

Haltdos provides security and delivery solutions for web applications and APIs across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments. Its Enterprise WAF protects websites and APIs against OWASP Top 10 attacks, known vulnerabilities, and zero-day vulnerabilities. It includes more than 4,000 signatures, machine-learning-based zero-day protection, file-upload antivirus scanning and sandboxing, and DDoS protection from Layer 3 to Layer 7. An API gateway provides authentication, rate limiting, transformation, and observability. Bot controls include detection and mitigation, device fingerprinting, mobile SDK protection, JavaScript and CAPTCHA challenges, and deception technology. Enterprise WAF also lists incident logging, analytics and dashboards, SIEM integration, and PCI compliance reporting. Deployment options include SaaS, virtual, hardware, and MSSP, with on-premise and public- or private-cloud deployment. Community WAF runs on a VM, Docker, or hardware and requires at least 2 GB RAM, 60 GB disk space, and 2 vCPU cores. Community WAF is free for one website and one security profile. Professional WAF costs $30 a month, billed at the end of each monthly billing period based on requests processed; the first 100K requests are free.

SafeLine is a self-hosted web application firewall and reverse proxy that filters traffic between web applications and the internet. Its Nginx-based design is described as blocking malicious HTTP traffic, with protection listed for SQL injection, XSS, code injection, XXE, SSRF and path traversal. Anti-bot challenges aim to distinguish human visitors from crawlers and bots, while rate limiting addresses DoS attacks, brute-force attempts, traffic surges and other abuse. A dynamic protection feature encrypts HTML and JavaScript from the web server on each visit. Listed integrations include an MCP Server for AI-assisted management, an Ingress-NGINX plugin for Kubernetes ingress, and a Kong Gateway plugin for APIs and services. Installation instructions call for Docker and Docker Compose V2 on the host. The repository identifies the license as GPL-3.0. SafeLine lists Linux, self-hosted and web platforms. Its Personal plan costs nothing, billed forever, for up to 10 apps. Lite is $10 a month, and Pro is $100 a month. Ultimate pricing is custom and billed annually. A seven-day trial is listed.