🆚 Envoy vs. Nginx

📈 Nginx is much more popular than Envoy.
🌍 Nginx is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Envoy

Nginx

Type

Load balancer

Web server

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.

Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy designed for handling large volumes of concurrent connections with low memory usage.

It supports serving static files, reverse proxying, load balancing for HTTP, TCP, and UDP traffic, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, WebSocket proxying, response compression, and zero-downtime configuration reloads.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

envoyproxy.io #121,897

nginx.org #37,555

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Free version ✔️ Open source

NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition $3,500+/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Nginx web server is 75 times more popular than Envoy.

Total websites

Market share

Caching

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Nginx is more popular than Envoy in all countries.

United States

Japan

Germany

Russia

United Kingdom

China

Netherlands

France

Spain

Italy

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 the United States in the Caching category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Nginx is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and education and reference, while Envoy is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Entertainment

General News

Software/Hardware

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Public Information

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#15

#19

#22

#34

#35

Name

Rank

#17

#18

#21

#38