🆚 .NET vs. Mono
- 📈 .NET is much more popular than Mono.
- 🌍 .NET is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Mono is particularly popular in France.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
.NETType
Software platform
Software platform
About
.NET is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform from Microsoft used to build web, desktop, mobile, cloud, and IoT applications across 
Windows, 
Linux, and macOS.
It includes a runtime with automatic memory management, a large standard library and APIs, support for various languages such as 
C#, F#, and Visual Basic, and a package ecosystem with over 400,000 NuGet packages, along with frameworks like ASP.NET Core for web applications and .NET MAUI for cross-platform interfaces.
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The .NET platform is 6,826 times more popular than Mono.
Total websites
Market share
Platforms
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
.NET is more popular than Mono in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
China
Italy
Turkey
India
Netherlands
Canada
Australia
Germany
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Italy in the Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
.NET is more popular than Mono in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Sports
Health
Travel
Internet Services
Finance/Banking
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.