🆚 AlmaLinux vs. CloudLinux

📈 AlmaLinux is much more popular than CloudLinux.
🌎 AlmaLinux is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands.
🌍 CloudLinux is more popular in Norway, Switzerland, and Sweden.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

AlmaLinux

CloudLinux

Type

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.

CloudLinux OS is a commercial Linux distribution marketed to shared hosting providers.

Headquarters

Estero, Florida, United States

Website

almalinux.org #88,204

cloudlinux.com #102,574

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ❌

CloudLinux OS Solo$7/month

CloudLinux OS Admin$12/month

CloudLinux OS Shared Pro$18/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The AlmaLinux operating system is 10 times more popular than CloudLinux.

Total websites

Market share

Operating Systems

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

AlmaLinux is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands, while CloudLinux is more popular in Norway, Switzerland, and Sweden.

United States

Japan

Netherlands

Germany

Norway

United Kingdom

Czech Republic

Canada

France

Australia

Awards

⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Slovakia in the Operating Systems category.
⭐ 6th most popular in South Africa 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.

⭐ 5th most popular in Norway in the Operating Systems category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Sweden in the Operating Systems category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Switzerland in the Operating Systems category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

AlmaLinux is more popular than CloudLinux in all market segments.

Business

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Software/Hardware

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#7,014

#8,447

#9,570

#11,061

#11,732

Name

Rank

#72,282

#448,900

#459,055

#538,412

#539,558