🆚 ASP.NET Core vs. Symfony

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 ASP.NET Core is slightly more popular than Symfony.
🌎 ASP.NET Core is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden.
🌍 Symfony is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

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.

Symfony is an open-source PHP web application framework and a set of reusable components designed to speed up the development and maintenance of web applications using best practices and high modularity.

It features over 50 decoupled packages for routing, templating, dependency injection, form validation, security, console tools, and internationalization.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Clichy, Île-de-France, France

Website

asp.net

symfony.com #74,485

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The ASP.NET Core backend framework is 1.4 times more popular than Symfony.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

ASP.NET Core is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden, while Symfony is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Germany

United States

United Kingdom

Sweden

Austria

Switzerland

Netherlands

Denmark

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 Germany in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥈 Second most popular in Austria in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥈 Second most popular in Switzerland in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥉 Third most popular in Mongolia in the Backend Frameworks category.
⭐ 7th most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

ASP.NET Core is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and travel, while Symfony is more commonly used on online shopping sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Travel

Education/Reference

Health

Finance/Banking

Software/Hardware

Real Estate

Internet Services