🆚 Gunicorn vs. Phusion Passenger
- 📈 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.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
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.
Headquarters
Creil, France
Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
Passenger Enterprise$43.32+/month
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #15
Web Servers › Rank #13
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.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Croatia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Ukraine 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
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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.

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