🆚 CodeIgniter vs. ThinkPHP
- 📈 CodeIgniter is much more popular than ThinkPHP.
- 🌎 CodeIgniter is more popular in India, the United States, and Indonesia.
- 🌍 ThinkPHP is more popular in China.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
ThinkPHPType
Backend framework
Backend framework
About
CodeIgniter is an open-source 
PHP full-stack web framework with small footprint, high performance, and minimal configuration setup.
It includes MVC support, clean URL routing, CSRF and XSS protection, helper libraries for database access, email, sessions, file uploading, and extensive documentation.
ThinkPHP is a Chinese open-source, object-oriented web application framework based on PHP.
Headquarters
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Backend Frameworks › Rank #8
Backend Frameworks › Rank #25
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The CodeIgniter backend framework is 11 times more popular than ThinkPHP.
Total websites
Market share
Backend Frameworks
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
CodeIgniter is more popular in India, the United States, and Indonesia, while ThinkPHP is more popular in China.
India
China
United States
Indonesia
Vietnam
Turkey
Brazil
United Kingdom
Korea
Japan
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Bangladesh in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Moldova in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Palestine in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Vietnam in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Hong Kong in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Vietnam in the Backend Frameworks category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
CodeIgniter is more popular than ThinkPHP in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
General News
Blogs/Wiki
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Laravel
Symfony
Livewire
CakePHP🗃️ About This Data
- 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.