Best caching tools for web apps (search query)

We asked 10 models: best caching solution for web app Each named its own top 10.

Asked 4 ways: List request · Buyer asking for advice · Search query · Worth paying for?. Share of voice pools every wording.

Agreement between models
74%
Same model, run twice
85%
Different picks
22

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#PickScoreListed byClaude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra

7 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.

Most divisive

Picks most models listed, at very different positions

Hot takes

Picks that appear on only one ballot

Every ballot

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Claude Haiku 5.5

  1. Redis
  2. Memcached
  3. Varnish
  4. Cloudflare
  5. Amazon CloudFront
  6. Fastly
  7. Hazelcast
  8. Apache Ignite
  9. Akamai
  10. Couchbase

85% with consensus · 96% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

  1. Redis
  2. Amazon ElastiCache
  3. Memcached
  4. Cloudflare
  5. Varnish
  6. Fastly
  7. Amazon CloudFront
  8. Microsoft Azure Cache for Redis
  9. Google Cloud Memorystore
  10. Google Cloud CDN

81% with consensus · 92% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

  1. Redis
  2. Valkey
  3. Cloudflare
  4. Memcached
  5. Amazon ElastiCache
  6. Varnish
  7. DragonflyDB
  8. NGINX
  9. Upstash
  10. Hazelcast

75% with consensus · 85% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

  1. Redis
  2. Memcached
  3. Cloudflare
  4. Varnish
  5. Amazon CloudFront
  6. Fastly
  7. Amazon ElastiCache
  8. Akamai
  9. KeyDB
  10. KeyCDN

91% with consensus · 75% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. Redis
  2. Memcached
  3. Cloudflare
  4. Amazon ElastiCache
  5. Varnish
  6. Microsoft Azure Cache for Redis
  7. Google Cloud Memorystore
  8. Hazelcast
  9. NGINX
  10. Apache Ignite

88% with consensus · 83% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

  1. Redis
  2. Memcached
  3. Varnish
  4. Amazon ElastiCache
  5. Cloudflare
  6. Amazon CloudFront
  7. Hazelcast
  8. NGINX
  9. Apache Ignite
  10. KeyDB

86% with consensus · 82% self-consistent

Kimi K3

  1. Redis
  2. Cloudflare
  3. Memcached
  4. Varnish
  5. Amazon ElastiCache
  6. NGINX
  7. KeyDB
  8. Hazelcast
  9. Fastly
  10. DragonflyDB

87% with consensus · 84% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

  1. Redis
  2. Varnish
  3. Memcached
  4. Cloudflare
  5. NGINX
  6. Fastly
  7. Akamai
  8. Amazon ElastiCache
  9. CDN77
  10. Cloudflare Workers KV

80% with consensus · 78% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

  1. Redis
  2. Memcached
  3. Varnish
  4. Cloudflare
  5. Fastly
  6. Akamai
  7. Amazon ElastiCache
  8. CDN77
  9. Amazon CloudFront
  10. KeyDB

86% with consensus · 88% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

  1. Redis
  2. Memcached
  3. Amazon ElastiCache
  4. Microsoft Azure Cache for Redis
  5. Varnish
  6. NGINX
  7. Google Cloud Memorystore
  8. Cloudflare
  9. Cloudflare Workers KV
  10. Hazelcast

78% with consensus · 81% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 61 (lightest) to 90 (darkest)

Claude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5756190778773808867
GPT-6 Luna756879807775747677
Gemini 4 Argon616868746875656463
Qwen 3.8 Flash907968818380798970
DeepSeek V4 Pro778074818581707786
GLM-5.3877768838579758379
Kimi K3737575808179787572
MiniMax M3807465797075788667
Mistral Large 4887664897783758670
Nemotron 3 Ultra677763708679726770