🆚 Caddy vs. Nginx

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Nginx is much more popular than Caddy.
🌎 Nginx is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
🌍 Caddy is more popular in Equatorial Guinea.

Type

Web server

Web server

About

Caddy is an open-source multi-platform web server written in Go with built-in support for automatic HTTPS and modern web protocols.

It supports automatic TLS management with providers such as Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL, includes a built-in reverse proxy with load balancing, offers configuration through the human-readable Caddyfile or a JSON-based REST API, and features a modular architecture that can be extended with plugins.

Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy.

It supports serving static files, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, proxying and load balancing for HTTP, TCP and UDP traffic, and caching of FastCGI/uwsgi/memcached responses.

Headquarters

Vienna, Austria

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

caddyserver.com #20,138

nginx.org #37,555

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ✔️Open source

NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition$3,500+/year

Categories

Web Servers › Rank #7

Web Servers › Rank #1

Caching › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Nginx web server is 70 times more popular than Caddy.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Nginx is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany, while Caddy is more popular in Equatorial Guinea.

United States

Japan

Germany

Russia

United Kingdom

China

Netherlands

France

Spain

Italy

Awards

⭐ 4th most popular in Bulgaria in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Belgium in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Romania in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Austria in the Web Servers category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Nginx is more popular than Caddy in all market segments.

Business

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Entertainment

Travel

General News

Software/Hardware

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#1,610

#2,015

x*x.com

#2,428

#2,756

#2,826

Name

Rank

#5

#17

#18

#21

#38

Compare alternatives

Technologies with similar characteristics.

See also

Caddy technology profile

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Statistics were last calculated on March 20, 2026.
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