Vapor

Vapor is a server-side HTTP web framework written in Swift used for building RESTful APIs, web applications, and real-time features via WebSockets.

It offers a non-blocking architecture based on SwiftNIO, a type-safe ORM called Fluent supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and SQLite, Leaf templating, built-in authentication (including JWT), middleware, and validation.

According to our data, Vapor ranks 65th among the backend frameworks we track.
It has 0.001% of the backend framework market share and is detected on <0.001% of all websites.

• 🏠 Website
  • vapor.codes #1,716,244
• 🔗 Links
  • Wikipedia
  • Awesome Vapor
• </> Source code
  • GitHub
• 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Community
  • Stack Overflow

📊 Rankings and Market Share

• Backend Frameworks
  • Rank: 65
  • Market share: 0.001%

⚡ Sites Built With Vapor

We have data on 4 websites that use the Vapor backend framework.

The highest rated site using Vapor is cocoacasts.com.

#	Website	Rank	Country	Language
1	cocoacasts.com	#520,396	United States	English
2	is-kushenie.ru	#859,316	Russia	Russian
3	dms-spb.ru	#2,447,586	Russia	Russian
4	prstar.ru		Russia	Russian

🕵️ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best Vapor alternatives.

Rank	Name
34	Fat-Free Framework A lightweight PHP micro-framework designed for rapid development of web applications and APIs. FreeOpen source
36	Sails Austin, Texas, United States An enterprise-grade MVC framework for Node.js designed to build data-driven APIs and realtime web applications. FreeOpen source
39	Grails A Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot. FreeOpen source
43	Mojolicious A real-time Perl web framework that enables the creation of web applications that use WebSocket and have long-running requests without blocking. FreeOpen source
66	Vibe.d A high-performance toolkit written in D that provides asynchronous I/O, concurrency primitives, and a full web application framework. FreeOpen source

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💬 Frequently Asked Questions

👉 See Also

• ✨ Related technologies
  • JSON Web Token, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Swift, WebSocket

🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
• Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
• For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.