🆚 Caddy vs. Tomcat

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Tomcat is twice as popular as Caddy.
🌎 Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Caddy is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and France.

Caddy

Tomcat

Type

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.

Apache Tomcat is an open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications.

Headquarters

Vienna, Austria

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

caddyserver.com #20,138

tomcat.apache.org

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tomcat web server is 2.1 times more popular than Caddy.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Caddy is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and France.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Australia

Netherlands

Canada

France

Sweden

Indonesia

Spain

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.

⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Indonesia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in New Zealand in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Tomcat is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Caddy is more commonly used on online shopping and Internet services sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Online Shopping

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Internet Services

Travel

Sports