🆚 Envoy vs. Squid

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Load balancer
Caching solution

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.

Squid is a caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
Westminster, Colorado, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #6
Load Balancers › Rank #17
Caching › Rank #11
Caching › Rank #26

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Envoy load balancer is 43 times more popular than Squid.
Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers
Caching

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Envoy is more popular than Squid in all countries.
United States
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
Brazil
Canada
France
Australia
China

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Envoy is more popular than Squid in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Internet Services
Finance/Banking
General News
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#12
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Name
Rank
p-world.co.jp
#2,842
#7,402
#12,243
#18,359
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