🆚 Envoy vs. F5 BIG-IP

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 F5 BIG-IP is slightly more popular than Envoy.
🌎 F5 BIG-IP is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Canada.
🌎 Envoy is more popular in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Brazil.

Envoy

F5 BIG-IP

Type

Load balancer

About

Envoy is a high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures.

It provides advanced L4/L7 load balancing, HTTP/2 and gRPC proxying, service discovery integration, observability with distributed tracing and rich metrics, and dynamic configuration via xDS APIs.

F5 BIG-IP is an enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic.

It offers programmable Layer 4-7 load balancing with advanced health checks, web application firewall protection against OWASP Top 10 threats, DDoS mitigation, and access control and authentication options including Active Directory/LDAP/RADIUS, and single sign-on.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

envoyproxy.io #121,897

f5.com #2,097

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ❌Free 30-day trial

$3,200+/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The F5 BIG-IP load balancer is 1.4 times more popular than Envoy.

Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

F5 BIG-IP is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Canada, while Envoy is more popular in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Brazil.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Canada

France

Netherlands

Japan

Brazil

Australia

Spain

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Load Balancers category.
🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.
🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Mexico in the Load Balancers category.

🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Slovakia in the Load Balancers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

F5 BIG-IP is more popular among sites focused on business, finance and banking, and marketing and merchandising, while Envoy is more commonly used on online shopping, travel, and general news sites.

Business

Finance/Banking

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Government/Military

Internet Services

Health

Travel

Public Information