🆚 ASP.NET Core vs. Ruby on Rails

📈 Ruby on Rails is much more popular than ASP.NET Core.
🌎 Ruby on Rails is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 ASP.NET Core is more popular in Sweden, Denmark, and Turkey.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

ASP.NET Core

Ruby on Rails

Type

Backend framework

About

Microsoft ASP.NET Core is an open-source, cross-platform web framework and the successor to ASP.NET that enables development of web apps and APIs using .NET on Windows, macOS, or Linux.

It offers high performance via the Kestrel server, built-in dependency injection, unified MVC and Web API programming, minimal APIs, flexible configuration per environment, and side-by-side versioning.

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web application framework that provides the tools needed to build database-driven applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

It emphasizes a standardized project structure and naming, follows DRY ("don't repeat yourself") and "convention over configuration" principles, includes the Active Record ORM for database interaction, a built-in asset pipeline for managing CSS and JavaScript, and an integrated testing framework.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Website

asp.net

rubyonrails.org #180,446

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Ruby on Rails backend framework is 6 times more popular than ASP.NET Core.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Ruby on Rails is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while ASP.NET Core is more popular in Sweden, Denmark, and Turkey.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

India

Germany

Netherlands

Canada

Japan

France

Italy

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥈 Second most popular in Denmark in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥉 Third most popular in Norway in the Backend Frameworks category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the Backend Frameworks category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Iran in the Backend Frameworks category.

🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Backend Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Ruby on Rails is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and business, while ASP.NET Core is more commonly used on health, finance and banking, and public information sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Business

Fashion/Beauty

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Internet Services

Sports

Blogs/Wiki

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#14

#30

#91

#101

#205

Name

Rank

#13

#49

#51

#76

#134