🆚 GraphQL vs. OpenAPI
- 📈 GraphQL is five times more popular than OpenAPI.
- 🌎 GraphQL is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 OpenAPI is more popular in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Kuwait.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
GraphQL
OpenAPIType
Standard
Standard
About
GraphQL is a data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.
OpenAPI is a specification language for defining HTTP APIs, typically written in 
YAML or 
JSON.
It enables automated generation of interactive documentation (via tools such as 
Swagger UI and Redoc), schema-based request and response validation, automatic creation of client SDKs and server stubs in multiple programming languages, and integration into CI/CD pipelines.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
GraphQL is 5 times more popular than OpenAPI.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
GraphQL is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while OpenAPI is more popular in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Kuwait.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Netherlands
France
Australia
Sweden
Norway
Poland
Brazil
Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Belgium in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Iceland in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Sweden in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Poland in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Denmark in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Peru in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in the Netherlands in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Chile in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Bulgaria in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
GraphQL is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while OpenAPI is more commonly used on real estate sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Travel
Health
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Meta company profile🗃️ 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.