🆚 Facebook vs. Viber

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Facebook is much more popular than Viber.
🌍 Facebook is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Viber is particularly popular in Ukraine.

Type

Social media platform

Instant messaging app

About

Facebook is a social media platform owned by Meta.

It enables users to create profiles, post text, photos, and videos, join groups, follow pages, and interact through reactions and comments. With about 3 billion monthly active users, Facebook is currently the most popular social media platform in the world.

Viber is a free, cross-platform instant messaging and calling application owned by Rakuten.

It supports text, voice, and video messaging, one-on-one and group calls, end-to-end encryption by default, group chats with up to 250 participants, communities with unlimited members, disappearing messages, custom stickers and GIFs, and low-cost calls to phone numbers through Viber Out.

Headquarters

Menlo Park, California, United States

Tokyo, Japan

Website

facebook.com #2

viber.com #1,179

Pricing

Free ✔️

Free ✔️

Phone callsWorld (unlimited mins)$5.99/month
USA (unlimited mins)$1.99/month
UK (100 mins)$1.99/month
Germany (100 mins)$1.99/month

Categories

Social Media › Rank #1

Social Media › Rank #20

Instant Messaging › Rank #8

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Facebook social media platform is 161 times more popular than Viber.

Total websites

Market share

Social Media

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Facebook is more popular than Viber in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Italy

Spain

Japan

Australia

India

Netherlands

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Social Media category.

🥇 Most popular in Serbia in the Instant Messaging category.
🥇 Most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Instant Messaging category.
🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Instant Messaging category.
🥈 Second most popular in Belarus in the Instant Messaging category.
🥈 Second most popular in Bulgaria in the Instant Messaging category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Facebook is more popular than Viber in all market segments.

Business

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Internet Services

Marketing/Merchandising

Entertainment

Health

General News

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#2

#8

#16

#17

#20

Name

Rank

#1,587

#1,715

#2,115

#2,397

#2,537

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Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
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