🆚 Gunicorn vs. Tomcat

📈 Tomcat is much more popular than Gunicorn.
🌎 Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Gunicorn is more popular in Kuwait and Reunion.

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.

Apache Tomcat is an open-source Java application server that implements the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Server Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, and Jakarta WebSocket specifications.

It provides a servlet container and JSP engine for running Java web applications, supports HTTP/2 and virtual threads, implements a curated subset of Jakarta EE for lightweight deployment, and offers TLS certificate reload without downtime.

Headquarters

Creil, France

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

gunicorn.org #436,077

tomcat.apache.org

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tomcat web server is 22 times more popular than Gunicorn.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Gunicorn is more popular in Kuwait and Reunion.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

Switzerland

New Zealand

Germany

Netherlands

France

Korea

Awards

⭐ 7th most popular in Switzerland in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 9th 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.

⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 4th most popular in New Zealand in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Canada in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Tomcat is more popular than Gunicorn in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Blogs/Wiki

Restaurants

Online Shopping

Travel

Art/Culture/Heritage

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#1,263

#2,002

#2,264

#2,825

#6,658

Name

Rank

#1,553

#2,574

#2,788

#3,344

#3,510