🆚 Gunicorn vs. Tornado

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Gunicorn is much more popular than Tornado.
🌎 Gunicorn is more popular in the United States, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Tornado is more popular in French Polynesia.

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.

Tornado is a scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python.

Headquarters

Creil, France

Website

gunicorn.org #436,077

tornadoweb.org #1,959,543

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Gunicorn web server is 33 times more popular than Tornado.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Gunicorn is more popular in the United States, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, while Tornado is more popular in French Polynesia.

United States

Switzerland

United Kingdom

France

Germany

Netherlands

Spain

Brazil

Belgium

Australia

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.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Gunicorn is more popular than Tornado in all market segments.

Business

Art/Culture/Heritage

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Software/Hardware

Internet Services

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#1,263

#2,002

#2,264

#2,825

#6,658

Name

Rank

#60,430

#84,618

#92,378

#114,443

#129,268