🆚 Gunicorn vs. OpenResty
- 📈 OpenResty is much more popular than Gunicorn.
- 🌎 OpenResty is more popular in the United States, China, and Korea.
- 🌍 Gunicorn is more popular in Kuwait.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
OpenRestyType
Web server
Web server
About
Gunicorn ("Green Unicorn") is a Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project.
OpenResty is an 
Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server.
It embeds Lua, a lightweight scripting language, into Nginx's event-driven architecture, enabling high-performance dynamic request handling, asynchronous I/O, API and microservice development, traffic control, caching, authentication, and logging.
Headquarters
Creil, France
Millbrae, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #15
Web Servers › Rank #5
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The OpenResty web server is 46 times more popular than Gunicorn.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
OpenResty is more popular in the United States, China, and Korea, while Gunicorn is more popular in Kuwait.
United States
China
Korea
Netherlands
Russia
Slovakia
Germany
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Vietnam
Awards
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Switzerland in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Belgium in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in France in the Web Servers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Samoa in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Slovakia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Seychelles in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
OpenResty is more popular than Gunicorn in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Travel
General News
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Tengine🗃️ 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.