# Traefik Labs

> Traefik Labs builds the cloud-native networking layer that sits between your users and your services. Its flagship open-source Traefik Proxy - downloaded more than 3 billion times - auto-discovers containers and routes traffic without hand-written config, and its commercial Traefik Hub extends that into a unified 'Triple Gate' platform covering API, AI, and MCP traffic. Founded in France in 2016 and now headquartered in San Francisco, the company's stated goal is to make networking boring: reliable enough that developers stop thinking about it.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Emile Vauge (Founder & CTO (former CEO))
- **Team size:** Roughly 38-50 employees
- **Products:** Traefik Proxy, Traefik Enterprise, Traefik Hub, Traefik AI Gateway, Traefik MCP Gateway
- **Notable:** Traefik Proxy surpassed 3 billion downloads (2B by 2020, 3.4B+ by 2025)., Over 60,000 GitHub stars and 750+ contributors., Named the #1 open-source API gateway by OSS Insight for six consecutive years.

## Products & services

- **Traefik Proxy** — Open-source, MIT-licensed cloud-native application proxy, reverse proxy, and load balancer written in Go. Auto-discovers services across Docker, Kubernetes, and more and configures routing dynamically. Over 3 billion downloads and 60k+ GitHub stars.
- **Traefik Enterprise** — Commercial platform adding API management, ingress control, high availability, advanced security, autoscaling, and dedicated support on top of Traefik Proxy.
- **Traefik Hub** — Cloud-native API management and gateway platform featuring the 'Triple Gate' architecture - API Gateway, AI Gateway, and MCP Gateway - with GitOps API lifecycle, runtime governance, and observability.
- **Traefik AI Gateway** — Turns any AI/LLM endpoint into a managed API with rate limiting, semantic caching, multi-provider failover, token-level cost controls, and a composable multi-vendor safety pipeline.
- **Traefik MCP Gateway** — Governance layer that controls what AI agents can access via the Model Context Protocol, with runtime policies and safety enforcement.
- **Traefik Mesh** — Lightweight, easily deployed service mesh for control, security, and observability across east-west traffic (now deprecated).

## Achievements

- Traefik Proxy surpassed 3 billion downloads (2B by 2020, 3.4B+ by 2025).
- Over 60,000 GitHub stars and 750+ contributors.
- Named the #1 open-source API gateway by OSS Insight for six consecutive years.
- One of Docker Hub's top-15 projects.
- Powers 100,000+ instances in production across enterprises like Condé Nast, Expedia, Mailchimp, and Mozilla.
- Celebrated 10 years of the Traefik project in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — At NVIDIA GTC, Traefik Hub's Triple Gate gained a composable multi-vendor AI safety pipeline with parallel guard execution, multi-provider failover, token-level cost controls, IBM Granite Guardian integration, and a new Regex Guard.
- **2026-02** — Self-Service Subscriptions launched (Traefik Hub v3.14.1), letting API consumers subscribe apps to APIs and API bundles directly through the API Portal.
- **2025-10** — At Oracle AI World, Traefik Labs launched the MCP Gateway, native support for three NVIDIA Safety NIMs in the AI Gateway, and platform-wide offline deployment.
- **2025** — Celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the Traefik open-source project.
- **2024-02** — Sudeep Goswami appointed CEO; founder Emile Vauge transitioned to CTO.

## Links

- Website: https://traefik.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/traefik
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/traefik
- GitHub: https://github.com/traefik
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVRyfsfkok4trq6u7RJsY_A

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Last updated: 2026-07-10