🆚 Envoy vs. Varnish

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Varnish is five times more popular than Envoy.
🌎 Varnish is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
🌍 Envoy is more popular in Israel, Korea, and Cyprus.

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.

Varnish Cache is an open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Stockholm, Sweden

Website

envoyproxy.io #121,897

varnish-cache.org #547,741

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ✔️Open source

Varnish Pro$1,500+/year

Varnish EnterpriseCustom

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #6

Load Balancers › Rank #1

Caching › Rank #11

Caching › Rank #4

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Varnish caching solution is 5 times more popular than Envoy.

Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Caching

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Varnish is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, while Envoy is more popular in Israel, Korea, and Cyprus.

United States

United Kingdom

France

Germany

Netherlands

Denmark

Sweden

Norway

Italy

Canada

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 Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Varnish is more popular than Envoy in all market segments.

Business

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

General News

Marketing/Merchandising

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Travel

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#12

#15

#19

#22

#34

Name

Rank

#12

#23

#34

#42

#44

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See also

Varnish technology profile

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Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
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