🆚 Highlight.js vs. Prism
- 📈 Highlight.js is as popular as Prism.
- 🌍 Highlight.js is more popular in Russia, Germany, and France.
- 🌎 Prism is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PrismType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Highlight.js is a 
JavaScript syntax highlighter with automatic language detection and zero dependencies.
Prism is a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter that supports nearly 300 languages.
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #124
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #125
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Highlight.js JavaScript library is as popular as Prism.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Highlight.js is more popular in Russia, Germany, and France, while Prism is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
United States
Japan
Russia
Germany
United Kingdom
France
China
India
Netherlands
Spain
Awards
- ⬆️ 59th most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 69th most popular in China in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 79th most popular in Korea in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 81st most popular in Ukraine in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 89th most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Tanzania in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 64th most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 80th most popular in China in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 82nd most popular in Taiwan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 86th most popular in Singapore in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Highlight.js is more popular among sites focused on marketing and merchandising, technical, business forums, and entertainment, while Prism is more commonly used on business, Internet services, and blogs and wiki sites.
Business
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Technical/Business Forums
Technical Information
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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.