🆚 AlmaLinux vs. CentOS
- 📈 CentOS is four times more popular than AlmaLinux.
- 🌎 CentOS is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Korea.
- 🌍 AlmaLinux is more popular in Algeria, Bolivia, and Haiti.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
AlmaLinuxType
Operating system
Operating system
About
AlmaLinux is an open-source enterprise 
Linux distribution focused on long-term stability and binary compatibility with 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Created as a successor to 
CentOS, it provides free community-maintained enterprise releases with predictable long-term support cycles and regular security updates, supports major server architectures such as x86-64 and ARM64, and is broadly used in hosting and cloud infrastructure.
Headquarters
Estero, Florida, United States
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The CentOS operating system is 4 times more popular than AlmaLinux.
Total websites
Market share
Operating Systems
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
CentOS is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Korea, while AlmaLinux is more popular in Algeria, Bolivia, and Haiti.
Japan
United States
Korea
Netherlands
Russia
Italy
United Kingdom
Germany
Taiwan
Czech Republic
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the Netherlands in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
CentOS is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising, while AlmaLinux is more commonly used on real estate sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.