🆚 Gunicorn vs. Phusion Passenger

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Phusion Passenger is twice as popular as Gunicorn.
🌎 Phusion Passenger is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Gunicorn is more popular in Switzerland, Belgium, and Morocco.

Type

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.

Phusion Passenger a fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js.

Headquarters

Creil, France

Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Website

gunicorn.org #436,077

phusionpassenger.com #147,836

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ✔️Open source

Passenger Enterprise$43.32+/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Phusion Passenger web server is 2.5 times more popular than Gunicorn.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Phusion Passenger is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Gunicorn is more popular in Switzerland, Belgium, and Morocco.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Switzerland

France

Canada

Japan

Spain

Netherlands

Russia

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.

⭐ 6th most popular in Ukraine in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Croatia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Poland in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Mexico in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Phusion Passenger is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Gunicorn is more commonly used on software and hardware, and art, culture and heritage sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Entertainment

Sports

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Software/Hardware