🆚 F5 BIG-IP vs. Varnish

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Varnish is four times more popular than F5 BIG-IP.
🌎 Varnish is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 F5 BIG-IP is more popular in Turkey, Taiwan, and the Czech Republic.

F5 BIG-IP

Varnish

Type

Load balancer

Caching solution

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.

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

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Stockholm, Sweden

Website

f5.com #2,097

varnish-cache.org #547,741

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 30-day trial

$3,200+/year

Free version ✔️Open source

Varnish Pro$1,500+/year

Varnish EnterpriseCustom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Varnish caching solution is 4 times more popular than F5 BIG-IP.

Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Varnish is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while F5 BIG-IP is more popular in Turkey, Taiwan, and the Czech Republic.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

France

Sweden

Denmark

Netherlands

Norway

Canada

Belgium

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.

🥇 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 among sites focused on business, education and reference, and online shopping, while F5 BIG-IP is more commonly used on finance and banking, and government and military sites.

Business

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

General News

Finance/Banking

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Health