🆚 Nginx vs. Varnish

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Web server
Caching solution

About

Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy.

It supports serving static files, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, proxying and load balancing for HTTP, TCP and UDP traffic, and caching of FastCGI/uwsgi/memcached responses.

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

Pricing

Free version ✔️Open source
NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition$3,500+/year
Free version ✔️Open source
Varnish Pro$1,500+/year
Varnish EnterpriseCustom

Categories

Web Servers › Rank #1
Caching › Rank #1
Caching › Rank #4
Load Balancers › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Nginx web server is 15 times more popular than Varnish.
Total websites

Market share

Caching

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Nginx is more popular than Varnish in all countries.
United States
Japan
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
China
Netherlands
France
Italy
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Nginx is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and education and reference, while Varnish is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, sports, and health sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
General News
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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See also

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