🆚 Gunicorn vs. Phusion Passenger

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

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

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.

It can run standalone or as an Nginx or Apache module, provides rolling restarts for zero-downtime deployments, and uses "smart spawning" with copy-on-write to reduce memory usage.

Headquarters

Creil, France

Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Website

gunicorn.org #436,077

phusionpassenger.com #147,836

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Free version ✔️ Open source

Passenger Enterprise $44.56+/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Phusion Passenger web server is 2.3 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 France, while Gunicorn is more popular in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Australia.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Switzerland

France

Canada

Russia

Spain

Japan

Poland

Awards

⭐ 7th most popular in Switzerland in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 10th most popular in France in the Web Servers category.
🔥 11st most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
🔥 13rd most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.

⭐ 6th most popular in Ukraine in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Canada in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Poland in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Germany 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 art, culture and heritage sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Sports

Travel

Art/Culture/Heritage

Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#1,263

#2,002

#2,264

#2,825

#6,658

Name

Rank

#2,261

#4,651

#5,341

#6,763

#6,793