🆚 F5 BIG-IP vs. Heroku Vegur

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 F5 BIG-IP is much more popular than Heroku Vegur.
🌎 F5 BIG-IP is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Canada.
🌍 Heroku Vegur is more popular in Iceland and Liechtenstein.

Type

Load balancer

Load balancer

About

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.

Heroku Vegur is open-source proxy and load balancing software.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 30-day trial

$3,200+/year

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #4

Load Balancers › Rank #10

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The F5 BIG-IP load balancer is 7 times more popular than Heroku Vegur.

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 Heroku Vegur is more popular in Iceland and Liechtenstein.

United States

Germany

Canada

United Kingdom

France

Japan

Brazil

Australia

Turkey

Spain

Awards

🥇 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.

⭐ 9th most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Sweden in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Finland in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Norway in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 10th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

F5 BIG-IP is more popular than Heroku Vegur in all market segments.

Business

Finance/Banking

Education/Reference

Government/Military

Marketing/Merchandising

Health

Internet Services

Online Shopping

Public Information

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#84

#110

#135

#183

#209

Name

Rank

#3,593

placardefutebol.com.br

#4,663

newrepublic.com

#5,555

thestorygraph.com

#7,289

golfdigest.co.jp

#7,732

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Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
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