🆚 CentOS vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- 📈 CentOS is much more popular than Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- 🌎 CentOS is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
- 🌍 Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more popular in the Bahamas, Reunion, and El Salvador.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
CentOS
Red Hat Enterprise LinuxType
Operating system
Operating system
About
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial enterprise 
Linux distribution designed for hybrid cloud deployments across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
It includes Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), a mandatory access control system built into the kernel, and supports kernel live patching which applies critical security updates without rebooting the system.
Headquarters
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Pricing
Free version ❌Free 60-day trial
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server$383.90
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Virtual Datacenters$2,748.90
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The CentOS operating system is 8 times more popular than Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Total websites
Market share
Operating Systems
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
CentOS is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany, while Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more popular in the Bahamas, Reunion, and El Salvador.
United States
Japan
Germany
Korea
Russia
Italy
Netherlands
Taiwan
United Kingdom
Spain
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Panama in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Panama in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Austria in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Spain in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Mexico in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Hong Kong in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
CentOS is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising, while Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more commonly used on travel sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.