🆚 FlexSlider vs. Swiper

📈 Swiper is three times more popular than FlexSlider.
🌎 Swiper is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan.
🌍 FlexSlider is more popular in Gibraltar, the Netherlands Antilles, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

FlexSlider

Swiper

Type

JavaScript library

About

FlexSlider is a responsive jQuery slider created by the WooCommerce team and included with WooCommerce.

Swiper is a modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions.

It offers touch and swipe navigation optimized for mobile, native-like momentum and resistance effects, support for vertical and horizontal modes, a modular plugin system with pagination, navigation, thumbnails, and parallax, accessibility features, and integrations with popular frameworks such as React, Vue, and Angular.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Weston, Florida, United States

Website

woocommerce.com #2,770

swiperjs.com #16,176

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Swiper JavaScript library is 3 times more popular than FlexSlider.

Total websites

Market share

JavaScript Libraries

Sliders

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Swiper is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan, while FlexSlider is more popular in Gibraltar, the Netherlands Antilles, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

United States

Germany

Japan

United Kingdom

China

Spain

Italy

France

India

Brazil

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Gibraltar in the Sliders category.
🥉 Third most popular in Sweden in the Sliders category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Sliders category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Sliders category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Sliders category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Sliders category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Sliders category.
🥇 Most popular in China in the Sliders category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Sliders category.
🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Sliders category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Swiper is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while FlexSlider is more commonly used on health, recreation and hobbies, and art, culture and heritage sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Entertainment

Sports

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#126

#608

#1,156

#1,158

#1,181

Name

Rank

#44

#46

#61

#63

#68