🆚 OpenBSD vs. Windows
- 📈 Windows is much more popular than OpenBSD.
- 🌍 Windows is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ OpenBSD is particularly popular in the United States.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Operating system
Operating system
About
OpenBSD is a security-focused open-source operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).
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, and PowerShell automation.
Headquarters
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Redmond, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free version ❌
Windows Server 2025
Standard edition $1,176
Datacenter edition $6,771
Categories
Operating Systems › Rank #17
Operating Systems › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Windows operating system is 1,219 times more popular than OpenBSD.
Total websites
Market share
Operating Systems
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Windows is more popular than OpenBSD in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
China
Italy
Turkey
India
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Brazil
Germany
Awards
- 🥇 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 OpenBSD in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Health
Travel
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Public Information
Finance/Banking
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.