🆚 F5 BIG-IP vs. Varnish

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

Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

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 and bot mitigation, and access control and authentication options including Active Directory/LDAP/RADIUS, and single sign-on.

Varnish Cache is an open-source HTTP accelerator and reverse caching proxy that caches content from web servers to reduce load times, and supports native TLS termination and Kubernetes deployments.

It uses the VCL configuration language compiled to native C code, serves cached responses in three system calls, provides official container images and a Helm chart for Kubernetes, outputs structured JSON logs, and supports VMOD extension modules.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Stockholm, Sweden

Website

f5.com #981

varnish-cache.org #3,840,997

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 30-day trial

$3,200+/year

Free version ✔️ Open source

Varnish Enterprise Custom

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 France, while F5 BIG-IP is more popular in Turkey, Taiwan, and the Czech Republic.

United States

Germany

France

United Kingdom

Denmark

Netherlands

Sweden

Norway

Japan

Belgium

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Germany in the WAF category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the WAF category.
🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the WAF category.
🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the WAF 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 marketing and merchandising, while F5 BIG-IP is more commonly used on finance and banking, and government and military sites.

Business

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Finance/Banking

General News

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Government/Military

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#97

#131

#132

#163

#164

Name

Rank

#43

#45

#46

#63

#67