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Chef is the leader in Continuous Automation software, and one of the founders of the DevOps movement. Chef works with more than a thousand of the most...Read more

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Market Share of Chef

Current Customer(s)

10276

Market Share (Est.)

5.84%

Ranking

#4

Top Competitors and Alternatives of Chef

The top three of Chef’s competitors in the Configuration Management category are Terraform with 38.09%, Ansible with 31.03%, Puppet with 11.41% market share.

TechnologyDomainsMarket Share (Est.)Versus page
Terraform6705638.09%Chef vs Terraform
Ansible5463631.03%Chef vs Ansible
Puppet2009611.41%Chef vs Puppet
AWS Config65753.73%Chef vs AWS Config
Perforce46142.62%Chef vs Perforce
Puppet Enterprise38992.21%Chef vs Puppet Enterprise
ServiceNow Configuration Management Database14240.81%Chef vs ServiceNow Configuration Management Database
HashiCorp Consul12640.72%Chef vs HashiCorp Consul
IBM Rational ClearCase8530.48%Chef vs IBM Rational ClearCase
CFEngine7870.45%Chef vs CFEngine
Orion Network Configuration Manager7580.43%Chef vs Orion Network Configuration Manager
Plastic SCM6530.37%Chef vs Plastic SCM
BMC Atrium CMDB5710.32%Chef vs BMC Atrium CMDB
CA Harvest5660.32%Chef vs CA Harvest
Micro Focus AccuRev4920.28%Chef vs Micro Focus AccuRev
CA CMDB4860.28%Chef vs CA CMDB
Chef Infra1930.11%Chef vs Chef Infra
Surround SCM1560.09%Chef vs Surround SCM
Micro Focus ZENworks Configuration Management1430.08%Chef vs Micro Focus ZENworks Configuration Management
BMC Marimba1370.08%Chef vs BMC Marimba
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Top Competitors and Alternatives of Chef

The top three of Chef’s competitors in the Configuration Management category are Terraform with 38.09%, Ansible with 31.03%, Puppet with 11.41% market share.

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Chef vs Puppet

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Customers of Chef

Around the world in 2026, over 10190 companies have started using Chef as Configuration Management tool.

CustomersEmployee RangeCityRegionCountrySocial Links
IDFC FIRST Bank10,000+MumbaiMaharashtraIndia
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Molina Healthcare10,000+Long BeachCaliforniaUnited States
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Sogeti10,000+ParisIle-de-FranceFrance
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RONA10,000+BouchervilleQuebecCanada
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TDS Metrocom10,000+MadisonWisconsinUnited States
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ConocoPhillips10,000+HoustonTexasUnited States
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JSL S.A.10,000+Mogi das CruzesSao PauloBrazil
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NTT DATA10,000+TokyoTokyoJapan
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IDEMIA10,000+CourbevoieIle-de-FranceFrance
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IM_WILLIAMS_SONOMA10,000+San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States
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Chef Customers by Products and Services

The top three products and services offering customers that use Chef for Configuration Management are Software Development (293), Devops (276), Data Analytics (236).

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Chef Customers by Employee Size

The majority of Chef's customers for the configuration-management category fall in the company size of 100 - 249 employees (1869 companies), 10,000+ employees (1744 companies), 1,000 - 4,999 employees (1699 companies).

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Chef Customers by Geography

The top three geographies of Chef for configuration-management are the United States with 4928(55.77%), France with 1021(11.55%), United Kingdom with 978(11.07%) customers respectively.

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IT, Server And Network Monitoring

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Who are the top Chef competitors?

Chef’s Top competitors in the configuration-management category are Terraform, Ansible, Puppet. You can view a full list of Chef competitors here. 6sense uses advanced data mining and AI algorithms to track customers and competitors of Chef and 40,000 other technologies on the internet. You can also compare Chef and its feature with top competitors here : Chef vs Terraform Chef vs Ansible Chef vs Puppet.

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