# Varnish Enterprise Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about Varnish Enterprise Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Load Balancing products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/140400/Varnish-Plus/alternatives --- # Varnish Enterprise Software Review 2026: Features, Reviews, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on November 13, 2025 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Varnish Enterprise ## What is Varnish Enterprise? Ideal for larger companies, Varnish Software's powerful caching technology helps the world's biggest content providers deliver lightning-fast web and streaming experiences for huge audiences, without downtime or loss of performance. Our solutions combine open-source flexibility with enterprise robustness to speed up media streaming services, accelerate websites and APIs, and enable global businesses to build custom CDNs, unlocking unbeatable content delivery performance and resilience. ## What is Varnish Enterprise used for? [Load Balancing](https://www.capterra.com/load-balancing-software/)[Content Delivery Network](https://www.capterra.com/content-delivery-network-software/)[Network Access Control (NAC)](https://www.capterra.com/network-access-control-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 5 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Contact vendor for pricing Free trial available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... 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[4.5 (280)](https://www.capterra.com/p/172274/Network-Configuration-Manager/reviews/) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price $238 Flat Rate, Per Year Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.6 (5) Ease Of Use 4.5 (280) Value For Money 4.8 (4) Value For Money 4.6 (239) Customer Service 4.8 (4) Customer Service 4.5 (266) ## Varnish Enterprise alternatives [4.3 (23)](https://www.capterra.com/p/239317/ManageEngine-Password-Manager-Pro/reviews/) Starting price $595.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 87% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.6 (33)](https://www.capterra.com/p/203059/NordLayer/reviews/) Starting price $10.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 94% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.3 (9)](https://www.capterra.com/p/239316/ManageEngine-PAM360/#reviews) Starting price $7995.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars Highest Rated [ThreatLocker](https://www.capterra.com/p/195434/ThreatLocker-Control/) [4.9 (87)](https://www.capterra.com/p/195434/ThreatLocker-Control/reviews/) Starting price $0.01 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/195434/ThreatLocker-Control/) ## Features Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically. Load Balancing 5.0 (3) 66.67% of 3 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources, with the aim of making their overall processing more efficient Website Delivery 4.7 (3) 66.67% of 3 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Optimizes the delivery of assets from the network to websites. Content Caching 5.0 (2) 100.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Temporarily stored data recently accessed in order to improve website performance and reduce load on bandwidth Health Monitoring 4.0 (2) 50.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Gain insights into the health of employees, equipment, registered instances or any other organizational asset to check their status API 5.0 (1) 0.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Content Compression 4.0 (1) 0.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Compress assets and content to be delivered more easily over a network to optimize site speed & response time Varnish Enterprise 23 features Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems Track and report on everything that happens within the system or network Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Verify the identity of users/devices to enable secure access Automatic configuration of devices/instances without manual intervention Reduction in the number of bits needed to represent data Temporarily stored data recently accessed in order to improve website performance and reduce load on bandwidth Compress assets and content to be delivered more easily over a network to optimize site speed & response time Determine the configuration of network traffic between clients and web applications based on the content being sent Protect networks against DDoS (Distributed denial-of-service) attacks Convert data into a code for security Monitor and control network/web traffic based on predetermined rules, protecting against unauthorized access and threats Gain insights into the health of employees, equipment, registered instances or any other organizational asset to check their status Identify and alert about security breaches by third parties Process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources, with the aim of making their overall processing more efficient Prevent and monitor unauthorized access, misuse, modification, or denial of a computer network and network-accessible resources Create new policies or alter existing policies Checking for another server when one is down and all the traffic needs to be routed to another one. Accepting a request from client, forwarding it to a server that can fulfil it, and returning the server's response back to the client Allows the distribution of software over the network. Removing the SSL based encryption from incoming traffic Identifying, analyzing, and mitigating security issues and taking appropriate action to protect systems and data from potential harm Optimizes the delivery of assets from the network to websites. Features 5.0 (5) 5.0 Based on 5 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.8 (4) ### Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Free trial available Value for money 4.8 (4) 4.8 Based on 4 reviews ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.8 (4) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.8 (4) 4.8 Based on 4 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 5.0 Based on 5 reviews Filter by rating 5(5) 4(0) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent JW John W. CTO Retail ### "Ultra reliable and efficient" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 January 4, 2024 Overwhelmingly positive; its reliable, efficient and does exactly what we need it to. Pros Varnish is probably the only component in the full enterprise tech stack that has never failed in 7 years, its ultra reliable, I love the hot reload of configuration to allow changes with zero disruption to existing traffic. Varnish has been known to run for more than 18 months between restarts/reboots with no performance degradation. Cons My biggest problem was figuring out to filter out the debug output to capture just the data I was interested in. It really wasn't a problem at all, its all in the documentation. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Martin P. Freelancer Computer Software ### "Perfect static web accelerator" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 September 14, 2023 Perfect and simple set up solution to provide better performance and save resources on server. Perfect for static pages. Contains caching, reverse proxy or load balancing functionalities. Possibility for health check services. Pros Varnish provides middleware between your web server and client requests. Allows to cache content from your web server. This saves allocated resources on the server. It also provides simple configuration where you can set health monitoring, content delivery technics or other useful functions. Cons It can be a little hard to lear how to use configuration file but the set up process is still easy. Switched from [HAProxy Enterprise](https://www.capterra.com/p/140407/HAProxy-Enterprise-Edition/) Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. JM John M. Software Engineer Online Media ### "10/10" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 November 14, 2022 Varnish is effective in content development, where radical evaluations are implemented to help any corporation's communications specifics. In addition, Varnish improves heavy traffic, leading to higher search engine rankings. Varnish also has the added benefit of encouraging interactive participation. Varnish also offers a load balancer solution, ensuring that both the business and its customers run smoothly at all times. Pros Varnish takes a group approach to content management, with a thorough analysis of the proposed website text. Varnish also provides proper optimization, which is why many people turn to us when they need a high Internet ranking. In addition, Varnish creates a reasonable traffic analysis scope, which advises businesses on the volume of their clientele. Cons Varnish encourages participation from everyone by facilitating thorough online communication. Additionally, Varnish guarantees a more effective way of interacting with customers and company administration. Varnish is able to understand the finer points of user-generated material, resulting in greater interaction. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. RP Ram P. Enterprise Architect Computer Hardware ### "Varnish Review" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 July 24, 2020 Pros Varnish software is very Reliable, Easy to use & Fast Cons I don't see any Con with this software. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AS ALEX S. Sr Infrastructure Eng Online Media ### "Varnish Cluster @ MTG" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 July 17, 2020 The main one is moving the Varnish Layer out of individual instances where a clear cache was a pain, and have that through a unified management interface via VCAdmin console. Also it's integration with Akamai API was a very useful tool for the same clear caching reason. Pros It's a robust product, once that is set, you can forget about it. It just works without any further interventions. Awesome management interface, very easy to use and very intuitive. Cons Not about software but about how it can be deployed. Some scripts samples can be offered in Terraform or Cloudformation to build a working cluster instead of trying to find all the intimate details by yourself and reinvent the wheel in your own image. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Independent research methodology Capterra's researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. 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