🆚 FreeBSD vs. Windows

📈 Windows is much more popular than FreeBSD.
🌍 Windows is more popular in all countries.

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

FreeBSD

Windows

Type

Operating system

About

FreeBSD is an open source Unix-like operating system designed for reliability, performance, and advanced networking across servers, desktops, and embedded systems.

It features a permissive BSD license, strong TCP/IP networking, a unified base system with an integrated package system offering over 30,000 third-party packages, the ZFS file system with snapshots and replication, the bhyve hypervisor, and jails for lightweight OS-level virtualization.

Windows is a family of proprietary operating systems from Microsoft used on personal computers, servers, and virtualized environments.

In its Windows Server editions, it combines web hosting through IIS with support for ASP.NET, application pools and SSL management, alongside Active Directory for centralized identity, Hyper-V virtualization, PowerShell automation, and hybrid cloud integration with Azure.

Headquarters

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

freebsd.org #22,440

microsoft.com/windows #3

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ❌

Windows Server 2025Standard edition$1,176
Datacenter edition$6,771

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Windows operating system is 80 times more popular than FreeBSD.

Total websites

Market share

Operating Systems

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Windows is more popular than FreeBSD in all countries.

United States

China

United Kingdom

Italy

Turkey

India

Netherlands

Germany

Canada

Brazil

Awards

⭐ 6th most popular in Ukraine in the Operating Systems category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Slovakia in the Operating Systems category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the Operating Systems category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Bulgaria in the Operating Systems category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Hungary in the Operating Systems category.

🥇 Most popular in China in the Operating Systems category.
🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Operating Systems category.
🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Operating Systems category.
🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Operating Systems category.
🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Operating Systems category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Windows is more popular than FreeBSD in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Health

Internet Services

Travel

Software/Hardware

Public Information

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#8,668

#10,255

#17,667

#23,639

#24,315

Name

Rank

#74

#101

#188

#227

#261